Two Quick and Easy Calamari Recipes

The Feast of the Seven Fishes is a holiday tradition where Italian-Americans make and serve a bunch of Italian seafood dishes for Christmas Eve. In this episode, I'm making a delicious cold calamari salad and perfectly crisp fried calamari. Calamari is inexpensive and very easy to cook provided it's cooked very quickly! I hope you enjoy both of these calamari dishes! This is the first episode of the Feast of the Seven Fishes Series.

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[knittingchick]

I remember my grandfather prepared baccalá when I was a kid. You could smell it throughout the whole apartment building but it was good. My Nana and he were the best Italian cooks and I miss the big family dinners. I am so grateful that they taught me how to cook. You’re making me hungry!

[jarodclayton]

Nice work. To the viewer, its evident this is actual cooking and not just video production. Thanks for keeping it real and keep them coming!

[namotenashi]

The soft squid salad and the crispy squid ring fry are great for squid lovers! I love this. I want to eat with chilled wine in a warm house!

[Ash-opql]

That you for always being blatant about food safety/cleanliness. I’ve probably commented it on another video but it’s one of the many things I love about your channel so much.

Kitchen hygiene is so important for good food.

[DonnaF.]

Oh how I miss this family tradition. Watching your videos brings it all back for me. Love watching you cook. You're one of my favorites! Thank you! ♡

[islandgirl]

Calamari perfection, thank you for putting together these 2 beautiful dishes.

[mjfletch]

Delicious recipes, and very professional looking production. Thanks for another mouth-watering video.

[martymonfredini]

I really like your method of explaining things. Good job!

[joepoe]

I wanted to thank you for these two dishes. I made them both for Christmas Eve and they came out pretty good. The calamari salad was just perfect. What a refreshing dish. Very easy to make . The fried calamari will take a few more times to get perfect. Came out good but I think I had to have the oil even hotter. Some of the flower was floating after the first batch. With that said this was a great dish and the family loved it. Thank you once again. I hope you and your family had a great Christmas.

[OhSankYouDoktor]

Your calamari salad is very similar to the way my mother made hers except we used both green and black olives and Kraft Zesty Italian dressing, which works really well with this. I find frozen calamari actually works best, and the smaller calamari is less likely to be tough. Nice job!

[andybroer]

Thanks Jim for the ideas, taking notes...

[joabarzua]

Best calamari I ever had is at city island in the Bronx many years ago. Every other restaurant I tried was disappointing, but yours looks delicious and makes me want to try it at home

[lisacapo]

You cook like I do for Christmas Eve. Perfect...thank you.

[MacMan]

The calamari salad looks outstanding! Thanks for posting the ingredients. As soon as my local Italian market has squid back in stock I want to give this a try!

[salvatrice]

So I dated an Irish guy for more years than I care to admit, and Christmas Eve was always his family, oh how I can't wait to get back to my family this year and the tradition of the 7 fishes, I think I missed that more than him 🤣🤭

[lauraquaresimo]

That calamari looks awesome, I'm definitely making that !!!

[billm]

Thanks for this series of 7 fishes vidoes! While Christmas is close, Easter will follow that. How about some Easter pies? I remember one with just grain, one with meat. We also had that "bread" with the boiled eggs. Maybe some other Easter staples? Thanks for the videos! Subscribed.

[Blitzkrieg]

After finding your channel, I can't stop watching..calimari is fantastic and you're so great at what you do!!!❤❤❤ also...I'd love to know your back story like if you were taught by Nonna, or self taught..etc. I can't wait to try a lot of these. Thanks!

[citibear]

Interesting. I have only eaten calamari once, and that was many years ago. If I recall, I liked it. I should give it another try.

[Truckngirl]

That is really, really good. My bestie who has passed gave me the idea, but I never had the recipe. Thank you, sir.