octopus secrets

10 Friday May 2024

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I am blown away by this documentary. About a year or so ago I was tucking into some perfectly char-grilled tender octopus at a bar here and suddenly I just couldn’t. Eat it. Why? I dunno. But every time I mentioned it people assumed it was because I’d watched that creepy Netflix “My Octopus Teacher”. It wasn’t. It was because I’d been coming across various articles and videos about octopuses on Twitter and then that one day it just felt wrong. Anyhow, if you get a chance to watch Secrets of the Octopus (on Disney and Nat Geo) I highly recommend it. Fascinating stuff.

accidental vegetarian

09 Thursday May 2024

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I never actually plan meals with the idea that they are going to be vegetarian, but sometimes it just happens spontaneously. Like here. Had to use or lose three whole bags of baby spinach (oops) so I made my fabulous espinacas con garbanzos (with added chopped almonds!) and then I saw the portobellos were also on their way out and so it was a quick whole-grain basmati fried rice thing. And they were both delicious. What can I say? It was a fridge forage kind of day.