Posted on 10/19/2019 7:15:57 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
An historic moment that took place on October 18, 2019. The worlds FIRST Octopus Seaweed Pan Pizza was prepared and consumed. No human in history has ever before tasted this delectable dish. However, as good as it tasted, it was even better later when eaten cold after I put a piece in the refrigerator for a few hours.
Be sure to boil the slice octopus legs for at least an hour before preparing for the pizza. Add Old Bay or other seasoning for flavoring while boiling. As usual for most pan pizza, cook on the top stove for three minutes and then for 12 to 15 minutes in the oven at 500 degrees. I highly recommend you refrigerate the pizza and eat it cold because for some reason it brings out the flavors, especially the seaweed, better.
Start making your own Texas Pizza Bread.
It’s not that Foxon Park is the best soda, it is just that the entertainment value of drinking with a not quite long enough straw out a tall, skinny 7 1/2 oz. bottle is part of the experience. (Of course, Sally’s carries Pepsi products, if I remember, but Modern and Pepe’s carry FP). Speaking of the Birch Beer, I brought some back to Illinois, and couldn’t get anyone to try it. Finally the sister of our neighbors tried it, and she cried, “Ugh! It tastes like Pepto-Bismol!” I had never thought of it that way, but it kinda does. Of course, I LIKE Pepto-Bismol.
If you are ever in Wallingford, CT, best grinders at Rosa’s Deli.
BTW, the nearby Phoenix soda place ALSO has Avery’s, Pop Shoppe and Cliquot Club, and a bunch of others from different parts of the country.
I had wondered whatever happened to Cott Soda (”It’s Cott to be good”). It turns out that they became a supplier for store brands (e.g. Wal-Mart). I stumbled upon their distribution center in Columbus, GA.
The soda I miss is Canada Dry Jamaica Cola, NOTHING goes better with a ham and cheese on a poppy seed hard roll than that.
“Sentient Critter Pan Pizza? Don’t give me ideas.”
Prepare & serve quickly so you can bite down on its synoptic firings. Enjoy the heightened cephalopodic insights that follow.
;^)
There’s an Asian supermarket near me. I occasionally get Ramune sodas for myself and Niece.
I want to try cooking more Asian (Especially Japanese) meals, and have done a few.
I read that squid should be cooked at high heat and quickly to avoid rubber texture. Never heard of boiling it, though.
Do you think the same would apply to octopus?
Check on the web for cooking octopus and I think most recipes involve BOILING octopus.
*** “Yeah, try eating octopus without boiling it first...unless you enjoy chewing on rubber” ***
Ceviche (sp) basically raw cooked w/ citrus acids
In Lorraine France I was hooked on a salad that was basically raw Octopus... ate it twice a day for the 6 days I was there.
Very good, it had tooth but wasn’t chewy or mushy
PS the Bread and Butter there was like a meal to me because it was so good. PS PS I haven’t eaten a slice of bread in a year
I’ve never gotten into squid, or octopus. Cooking them is an art, and if you don’t get it exactly right, it’s like chewing on rubber bands.
The Octopus is a very complex and intelligent critter, by the way:
I’ve driven past that spot of Rosa’s Deli a thousand times; it looks like kinda a dive. :* Never occsured to me to stop.
Now, I’m 5 hours drive, and chances are I never will get to try it out.
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