Octopus Salad

• 1 big octopus
• 2 lbs baby octopus
• container chicken stock
• 1 yellow onion
• 1 horse carrot
• a whole bunch celery stalks
• 3 bay leaves
• 1/4 - 1/2 red onion - super thin sliced
• handfull olives
• 3 handfulls arugula
• 3/4 handfull capers
• 7 scallions cleaned and whole
• couple cloves garlic chopped up tiny and smashed
• 1/2 of lemon the zest of 1/2 lemon
• 1 handfull fresh winter or summer savory or other herb you think is possibly an equal
• olive oil
• tea to table spoon pimenton/smoked paprika
• 1 a real cork
• lemon juice

1. low boil the octopuses in stock with yellow onion, 3 celery stalks, carrot, bay leaves and cork for 1 hour
2. drain that and set the octopuses to dry or pat them dry with towels
3. grill veggies: oil up 6 or so stalks of celery along with the whole scallions and grill directly or in a cast iron pan on the grill till they look like you want to eat them
4. mix octopuses in a bowl with a drizzle of oil and add chopped garlic and all that pimenton - mix it up real good. Throw that in the now hot cast iron pan on the grill. This is just for some good char and smoke taste - burn some wood chips or last years old dead rosemary plants for smoke
5. Chop the grilled celery, scallions and octopus into your preferred size and throw it in a bowl with everything else
6. mix it all up with some olive oil, a bit of lemon juice and salt and eat it.

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Taken from food52.com/recipes/11555-octopus-salad (may not work)