This little dandy comes from the Capt. Anderson's Restaurant Cookbook. Just imagine opening your refrigerator and seeing those glass jars with all the little suckers pressed on the sides.
Greek Pickled Octopus
1 large octopus
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon oregano
2 cloves garlic, chopped
Juice of 1 lemon
1/3 cup olive oil
2/3 cup vinegar
1/3 cup water
Salt to taste
Cut the head off the octopus and cube the meaty part. Cut the legs apart and steam all of it for about 40 minutes, until slightly tender. Wash well with cold water and cut into bite sized pieces. Stir the remaining ingredients together. Place the octopus cubes into a glass fruit jar. Pour pickling mixture over octopus making sure the octopus is completely covered. More marinade may have to be made. Put in the refrigerator for several weeks. The longer it remains in the refrigerator the more tender it gets. Serve cold.
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Odd and weird recipes from my large cookbook collection.
Weird Recipe Origins
While persuing my many cookbooks, adverstising booklets and cooking magazines I sometimes come across a recipe where I truely wonder what the originator was thinking. Sometimes they just sound like a terrible combination of ingredients. Other times it is what I call, the ingredient that doesn't belong. This is usually a food company trying to promote the use of their product in an inappropriate recipe. Recipes that might have found favor in past decades are sometimes so out of date they seem weird now.
About Me
- Rochelle R.
- Collecting cookbooks and recipes has been my hobby for over 35 years. I especially like vintage and advertising cookbooks and have over 1,000. I have a degree in Home Economics.
My collection
I have a large collection of several thousand cookbooks. I am most interested in vintage cookbooks and product adverstising books. A lot of these have recipes that we would now consider weird or odd.
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