Squid/Octopus anyone?

[Julia9054]

Squid is so so so delicious, and I urge you, nay, PLEAD WITH YOU to eat as much as you can, since I suddenly became allergic to it a few years ago and can't have it anymore so you must instead.

I remember in Madrid once getting a roll filled with flash-fried battered calamari....

I am also allergic to seafood. Mine came on suddenly too at about the age of 20. I had decided to cut meat from my diet and eat lots of seafood so maybe "eat as much as you can" is not the best advice.
Would love to have some sort of test to see if I'm still allergic.

 

[jefmcg]

What is the constancy?

If it's properly cooked, very similar to crocodile

 

[MossCommuter]

If it's properly cooked, very similar to crocodile

Bring me a crocodile sandwich and make it snappy!!

 

[C.J]

What is the constancy?
What do you have with it?

A bottle of super bock.

 

[Dirk]

I once ate a jar of pickled baby octopuses, much to my wife's disgust.

 

[robjh]

We got a delicious recipe for squid stuffed with mince and pine nuts and slowly fried, from friends in Barcelona many years ago, rather like this one. We haven't made it for years but something tells me we should try it again.

As for octopus, in Malta you get it stewed in red wine, which was pretty good too.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

What is the consistancy?
What do you have with it?

Not rubbery. NEARLY rubbery if there’s such a thing. I like chilli and garlic. Lightly bread crumbed, cooked for a nano-second and sprinkled with salt, pepper and just before you pop it in your mouth, a squeeze of lemon.

 

[Julia9054]

If it's properly cooked, very similar to crocodile

Ooh - that takes me back! Croc tail (done like scampi) and chips was a Zimbabwean restaurant thing.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I like both very much. If you're on The Algarve see if you can find stuffed baby squid in a wine sauce*. To die for darling.

*I last had it in Lagos, IIRC

 

[Julia9054]

Are you going to Lisbon @Dave7 ? If so, i can recommend some restaurants.

 

[Ganymede]

I am also allergic to seafood. Mine came on suddenly too at about the age of 20. I had decided to cut meat from my diet and eat lots of seafood so maybe "eat as much as you can" is not the best advice.
Would love to have some sort of test to see if I'm still allergic.

I would love to test myself too - I am only mildly allergic - I get swollen lips and sometimes red itchy palms - but unfortunately the advice is that it can go up a level so it's not really worth it. Also my lips stay bee-stung (on the inside ) for up to a week after the smidgiest smidge of either lobster or squid. I don't mind being allergic to lobster - I mean how often do you get the chance? - but squid is something I'd like to eat more of. I just console myself that I'm not (yet) allergic to anything really quotidien like eggs or carrots, like some afflicted folk are.

So if you want to test it - have an epipen ready, or maybe do it standing outside an A+E (in which case, wait till after the flu epidemic)!

 

[Fnaar]

Love both in all their many forms. I used to live in NW Spain, where squid is an absolute culinary delight; I lived near (and often frequented) a restaurant which sold ONLY squid in load of different forms (if calamares is all you are familiar with, think again). And 'pulpo a la gallega' is one of my faves (octopus, paprika).

 

[machew]

Baby octopodes very nice if they are cooked for a very short time

 

[Dave7]

Are you going to Lisbon @Dave7 ? If so, i can recommend some restaurants.

No.......a place called Alvor.
First visit to Portugal but this is supposed to be nice.

 

[colly]

I refuse to eat Octopus.

Call me old fashioned but it just seems wrong eating something with a higher IQ than me.