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Default Oriental grocery stores

Doug Freyburger wrote:
> mkr5000 > wrote:
>> I like to hit my local Oriental grocery about once a month ...
>>
>> Cuttlefish?

>
> It's a mollusc so if you like clams, oysters, scallops, calimari
> you'll love it. It's a close relative to calimari. Wonderful
> sauteed.


Cuttlefish is a cephalopod corss between a squid and octopus. Mollusks
have shells.

They absorb salt and magnify it, so go easy on salt when you cook it.
Make sure to get baby cuttlefish - about 2"-3".

-sw