Our conclusion? Cooking tasty, tender octopus is way easier than we excpected. We suspect you'll feel the same when you cook the popular Portuguese octopus dish, Polvo à Lagareiro, at home.

Another unusual aspect of the blanket octopus: It’s immune to the stinging cells of the highly dangerous (to humans at least) jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war, which it uses to its advantage ...