don't look at me!!!

I am finished with cleaning the kitchen. Today I successfully made "Pulpo De Gallega". But it wasn't easy. I bought a pulpo yesterday at HIT after basically bumping into it and thought - let's give it a try ...

So I asked the guy at the fish counter if the octopus was ready for cooking and after a confirming YES I was ready to go. I picked up the ingredients after having found a recipe on the internet. This was yesterday. We were playing wii at Jack's place yesterday night and so today afternoon was Pulpo time.

I opened the package and wanted to start when I discovered, the octopus was actually looking back at me!!!! I thought it was ready to be cooked and so but it actually had the head and everything!!! I mean it was cleaned and so on but those eyes!!!! And so I began cutting off the legs and I had to hold the head and it was the size of a lemon and hard and slimy to it didn't feel nice. But I managed. And so 4 hours later and with a little help from my friends we had a wonderful dinner. I have to remember to fill up the kitchen with things like potatoes for next time so when I invite a couple of friends over for dinner they don't have to bring and cook half the dishes...