Tag: calamari

Waffle Fries and Biology – Fried Calamari with Broccoli Rabe, Cherry Peppers, and Gorgonzola

Waffle Fries and Biology – Fried Calamari with Broccoli Rabe, Cherry Peppers, and Gorgonzola

Over my 30-year career as a teacher I’ve used many diverse techniques to help my students. But I was always at my best when I could relate a topic to something a typical teenager could understand. Often it was food. There were several themes that 

The Caribbean Life – Grilled Calamari for Greek Salad

The Caribbean Life – Grilled Calamari for Greek Salad

When we lived on St. Thomas in the Caribbean for two years in the mid-1990s, our favorite restaurant was not a local West Indian joint, but a Greek restaurant with the unoriginal name: Zorba’s. Despite this, we loved local food. A hearty serving of Bull 

Salt Baked Squid = Salt and Pepper Calamari

Salt Baked Squid = Salt and Pepper Calamari

My very favorite food in the whole wide world is shell-on, salt baked shrimp from the Chinese restaurant Lee How Fook in Philadelphia, where my family has been dining for decades. It is light, crisp, crunchy, and salty, with a slight peppery tang, perfect with