Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Squidzilla - not for vegetarians

On Saturday, we bought a whole squid in Ottawa's Chinatown (not to mention a pound of the biggest scallops I have ever seen!) Last night I decided to cook it (Thai red curry, because I also bought lots of Thai ingredients in Chinatown.) But I had never cleaned a squid before, so I looked up the instructions on the internet. And because I am apparently seriously lacking a life, I felt compelled to photograph the whole process for my legions of fans!


Ah, here is the poor squid. I have seen squid while snorkelling in warmer climes, but none of them were as big as this one. Here he is resting in our sink, and I thanked him for giving his squiddy life for us:


Tentacles! Tentacles! Tentacles! including one very long one. And that is my mother's old knife. We seriously need to go shopping for a decent knife.

The ink sack had already exploded inside the squid, but the resulting black mess wasn't too bad, and voila, I soon had the squid prepped for the wok. But raw squid is a scary thing to have next to your face:

Tentacles... more tentacles. "Hmm... should I really eat these?"

Tentacles could also make rather attractive, silvery veil for the face, in a pinch. I suppose they would be rather smelly, though:


Amazing what human beings will put in their mouths, isn't it?

7 comments:

  1. Well, now, aren't you just a great help on my diet...

    As to the bottom line: No comment.

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  2. You are so restrained, G! I am proud of you.

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  3. Check this out:
    http://squid.us/squid-parking/

    Squid, tea, hmmmm...have you been to Japan lately, Knat?

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  4. Natalie!!! Please tell me that you did not eat that bait! Send here, squid is expensive at the bait stores.

    I'm so glad that my diet doesn't require squid.

    Btw, I love all the cat pictures and the post about the CRAP party. We need something like that in America.

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  5. Robin,

    I eat bait! :D

    Funnily enough, in Nova Scotia both sets of our next-door neighbours were Newfoundlanders. They also view squid as bait and thought we were nuts for eating it!

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  6. Homemade Caramel (drizzled nicely over squid) ha ha

    1c butter
    2 1/4 c brown sugar, dark
    1c light corn syrup
    1 14oz can Sweetened Condensed Milk

    Constantly stir up to 242-248 deg (soft ball candy), add 1 tsp vanilla.

    Drop balls into cold water to form a firm, pliable ball. Few minutes later, work with it, roll it, drop it into pieces on wax.

    Recipe comes from Jill the moderator at Sonlight curriculum forums.

    Btw Pnat, Jack & my son love fried calamari.

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  7. The caramel sounds fantastic, but I will NOT drizzle it on squid, my dear!!

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