Octopus Pasta

20220813, #breakfastdiary 522, 24°C/rain Sauté garlic and onion in olive oil in a heated pan. Add the prepared octopus and tomatoes, season with salt and pepper, and sauté. Toss the boiled squid ink spaghetti with a little pasta water and perilla leaf pesto, then add the prepared ingredients, ssg ssg (toss toss), and garnish with the world's most beautiful perilla leaves for today's (brunch, this time) #OctopusPasta Some kinds of sorrow are hard and dry, like a raw stone that no blade can polish. (Han Kang, A Few Stories 12) Great writers deserve to be admired because they can move the heart with nothing more than ordinary, everyday words.

- 1 serving squid ink spaghetti - 3-4 cherry tomatoes - 1T perilla leaf pesto - 2-3 perilla leaves - Olive oil - Salt - Pepper

1. Boil the squid ink spaghetti in boiling water with salt. 2. Heat olive oil in a pan and sauté thinly sliced garlic and minced onion. 3. Add the prepared boiled octopus and halved cherry tomatoes to step 2, season with salt and pepper, and sauté. 4. Add the squid ink spaghetti from step 1, 1/2 cup pasta water, and perilla leaf pesto to step 3, and mantecare (emulsify) together. 5. Plate and top with a little chopped perilla leaf.