Around the World in Foodventures (Seychelles: OCTOPUS CURRY)

It's been a while, eh?  The world is focused on another topic right now, as have been I.  With Covid-19 doing it's thing, we've been minimizing our number of trips to the supermarket and definitely haven't been too interested in visiting multiple stores to gather unique or hard-to-find ingredients.  But walking by the frozen fish case a couple weeks ago, I did happen to see octopus -- so I grabbed a package knowing that Seychellois Octopus Curry was next up on my list.  Then I had to wait for Amazon to finally send me the coconut milk I couldn't find anywhere in person, as well as some Saffron.

I never imagined I'd cook with this critter (who funnily enough turned out to be a septopus rather than an octopus - I wonder what happened to it?), but here it is:

I basically followed the recipe at: https://www.internationalcuisine.com/octopus-curry/), but when it wasn't turning out nearly the color shown, decided to also reference this (http://lenautique.sc/blog/2016/08/31/creole-recipes-octopus-curry/) and this (http://globaltableadventure.com/recipe/recipe-massale-spice-blend/) -- which led me to add a little bit of curry powder, chili powder, and cayenne pepper.

Frankly, I'm not a huge fan of this dish.  There's nothing wrong with it and it's not bad.  It's just not my thing.  I honestly think I'm mainly turned off by the octopus itself (I've never really liked calamari or anything of the sort), and I guess I thought the eggplant would have absorbed more of the curry flavor than it did.  ((((shrug))))  I don't think I have anything else left to say other than....

Stay safe.  Stay healthy.  Flatten the curve.  ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

Oh, and I have like 3 or 4 more frozen little octopuses that I have no idea what to do with (nor do I really want to eat them).  Want any???

This post is part of my project: "Around the World in Foodventures" (I decided I want to expand my culinary horizons even further by making the national dish or a popular recipe, or some signature food or traditional meal from every country in the world. Maybe it'll happen alphabetically, or by region, in random order, or something else. I figure if we can't (yet?) travel everywhere, we at least have the luxury of being able to taste it. It’ll be fun and interesting, but obviously, will take a long time to get through -- as I'll only be doing it once a week or so at most. I am chronicling the journey here.)

“If I’m an advocate of anything, it’s to move…Walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food.” --Tony Bourdain