On tonights edition of What's for dinner I whipped up a quick batch of Calamari. I was craving it on the way home today and decided to pop out the little guys from the freezer and batter them up.
First thing I did was load up a nice pan with olive oil or in this case I would allow Vegetable oil as well but I still went traditional with this one. You want enough oil that it will coat the size of the whole piece you're frying. Make sure to get it nice and hot before dumping them in as well.
Now for, arguably, the hardest part of this project, which is cleaning the squid. All this take is a little knowhow and ambition and you'll be messing with squids whenever you get a chance to. First you take the whole squid and rip off what appears to be the head/tentacles. Then you'll get a piece that looks like this. You want to rip the beak off which is I believe the eye of the beast. You know what it's easier if you just watch me on this video... 
So you're left with the body after you take out the guitar pick looking thing and rinse it out after you put it inside out. Then you just cut them into 1/4 to 1/2 inch strips. 
Then you will get a small bowl with about a 1/4 cup of flour. Sprinkle a teaspoon of salt and some cracked pepper along with some chopped parsley and you are set to fry. Just coat the pieces with the flour then throw it into the hot oil. After about 1 minute (yes you read it right) take out the calamari when its light golden brown and crispy! Just add a little salt and thats it...
I also had some leftover marinara sauce from the other night that I added a hot pepper from the garden to in order to make it a nice, spicy, complimentary sauce for the calamari. And there's dinner folks...Enjoy!
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