Bongo Fury

Ok, this one is especially for Alison (Alison01326, not Mrs Muz ), another rubbery idea to scare the Mother-in-Law away. You live in a harbour town so must be able to get octopus. And there must be a shop for health-food freaks like myself where you can get all those strange grains & pulses, so what about octopus in quinoa

Tip 1 – If you get fresh octopus, freeze it. If you get frozen octopus, erm, it’s already frozen. If you don’t freeze it you’ll be needing a chainsaw to cut it up – the freezing process breaks down some of the inherent rubberiness (is that a word? )

Tip 2 - Also get your friendly fishmonger to clean it – a lot less bovver than a Hovver

Tip 3 – Get baby octopus, then you don’t need to boil it for hours on end to make it edible

Tip 4 – Don’t, as they do in Korea, eat live baby octopus (there are some disturbing YouTube videos of this if you dare to look, such as this, you have been warned)


So, get some organic Bolivian quinoa on the go in some stock with a knob of butter.


Then get the octopus cleaned & rinsed.


Fry in some butter for that delightful taste....


....looking good....


....and adorn with something to break up the monotony of the colours


Hmmm, rubbery

Are you supposed to cook and eat them whole????
AND aren't you supposed to cut the testies off and turn the head inside out ???
Looks scrumptious as always Muz

I'll stick with butties this time thanks.

Think i will stick to a chip barm thanks.

debbiepritch wrote:Are you supposed to cook and eat them whole????
AND aren't you supposed to cut the testies off and turn the head inside out ???
Looks scrumptious as always Muz

Cut the testies off? - That brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it

What if they were girl octupi?

girls are deffo octopus boys are octoplasm
oops meant tenties lol

I'm sorry you can garnish it with as much colour as you like its still NASTY!

How interesting, just had a google......

a live octopus may be sliced up and the legs eaten while still squirming, which continues for some minutes.

but when you do cook them....

Care must be taken to boil the octopus properly, to rid it of slime, smell, and residual ink

did you really eat it Muz???? I think we need pics of you devouring the food lol

Well I most certainly ate the testies sorry, tenties, but when I cut the head off the first one there was a watery squirt from it, not sure now having read your post whether it was residual slime or just water. So the heads went west but the tentacles were lovely.

Quinoa wasn't bad either

Oh, there's plenty of YouTube footage of the squirming tentacles as well

Cheers Muz, that's just made me want to upchuck

I think this qualifies under the doctor who, Daleks theme too



Especially the chappies top left & bottom left



Missed a trick there Muz you could have had a dalek shaped pastry casing

Sorry dude that video is very disturbing to me,
I used to study marine biology and had a 5foot marine tank at home.
still a very pationate subject to me, and still find it hard to go in shops selling dead starfish and shells in shops

But i have had octopus and like squid .. DEAD

, I'll stick with me cheese butties for now

Unfortunately I've now been able to access this thread

francophile1947 wrote:Unfortunately I've now been able to access this thread

^^^^^^ What Franco said! ^^^^^^^

I think I will stick with the butties too.