Supertentacular
May. 10th, 2009 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI do have to say, of all the useless instructions discovered in recipes, "Take care not to break the ink-sac" must be one of the most useless, where it comes with no further guide as to where the ink-sac might actually be found.
However! I was twice protected in this instance: once by having spent inordinate amounts of time with my hand inside octopodes, so that I do actually know where the ink-sac is, and once again by the fact that the ink-sac in this instance had burst en route, so that actually there was nothing I could do about it; I just had to be a bit scrupulous in the washing dept.
Oh, and endure the terrible tedium of over-attentive cats. Who got splashed and trodden on and still kept fussing about my feet, in their determined expectation of octopus they did not get. And were never going to get, which you would think they would have figured out by now.
Still, we got there in the end. I have octopus in the oven, roasting with potatoes and onions and wine and suchlike. Very shortly, I shall go to eat it.
That is all.
However! I was twice protected in this instance: once by having spent inordinate amounts of time with my hand inside octopodes, so that I do actually know where the ink-sac is, and once again by the fact that the ink-sac in this instance had burst en route, so that actually there was nothing I could do about it; I just had to be a bit scrupulous in the washing dept.
Oh, and endure the terrible tedium of over-attentive cats. Who got splashed and trodden on and still kept fussing about my feet, in their determined expectation of octopus they did not get. And were never going to get, which you would think they would have figured out by now.
Still, we got there in the end. I have octopus in the oven, roasting with potatoes and onions and wine and suchlike. Very shortly, I shall go to eat it.
That is all.