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like octopus. I like the pretty spiral tentacles and the weird
things you can do with them. Case in point: today's
octopus-infested rice,
which has tentacles harvested from the recent batch
of octopus fritters rising from a bed of otherwise-innocent
rice. On the other side I have steamed
broccoli and some baked buttercup squash. When I
saw the buttercup squash in the grocery store I thought
it was kabocha, and sure enough, they are both members
of the species cucurbita maxima. When I cooked
it I couldn't tell any difference in flavor or texture
between this and kabocha, so I guess it's safe to say
that the two are pretty well interchangeable. I'm not
posting a recipe because I think it needs to
be tweaked a bit before the result is different enough from
steamed
kabocha to be worthwhile.
On top of the orange and green is a jumbo hot dog octopus,
apparently trying to upstage the rice dish. It is coveting
a Dove chocolate. I'm glad hot dog octopi can't
open sealed plastic wrappers.
Wanna talk
about it?
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