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I drop it in rolling boiling water (with bay leaves, peppercorns and vinegar) to sear the skin, then simmer at 185F for 20 minutes\/lb., let it cool in its water then grill it for 10 minutes on a medium-high grill. Meanwhile I boil off the water to form a treacle which is brushed onto the grilled octopus. The key is not to boil it in 212F water which makes the flesh rubbery. A wonderful local Asian food market always has these in stock.<\/p>\n

Leica SL2-S, 100mm Macro-Elmar-R at f\/16, Bellows-R, 3 strobes. 12 images focus stacked in Helicon Focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yum, yum. Click the image for a larger version. I drop it in rolling boiling water (with bay leaves, peppercorns and vinegar) to sear the skin, then simmer at 185F for 20 minutes\/lb., let it cool in its water then grill it for 10 minutes on a medium-high grill. Meanwhile I boil off the water … Continue reading Octopus<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,104,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-leica","category-macro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42807,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42805\/revisions\/42807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}