I like squid, I like whipped cream, and I like strawberries, put them together and how could you not have a winner on your hands.  Easy, my brain tells me that one of these things is not like the other.  Let me back up a little first, I have recently been reading Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking and in it chef Morimoto (one of my culinary heroes) details the recipe for squid strawberry ice candy.  This sounds interesting I thought, or maybe it was just an excuse to purchase a new gadget (more on this later).  The concept is simple, puree some squid and simple syrup together, load it into a whipped cream maker, surround a strawberry with squid foam and freeze it.  Now here is where it gets difficult, eating it, which goes like this.  Num, Num, Num, mmmm this is sweet and velvety like a frozen whipped cream, oh is that strawberry I taste, how delicio… OH GOD, mouth to brain, come in brain, is that squid?  That’s not right is it?  Brain to mouth, it is squid, how odd someone has gotten squid in my frozen dessert, and this is where your tasting ends.  Sweet and strawberry are but distant memories in your mouth and the taste of squid is moving in.  I do have to say the flavour is not bad, it’s just odd, like wearing a winter jacket with shorts.  Maybe my palate is just to western for such seafood desserts or just maybe squid plus whipped cream maker plus strawberry really does equal frowny face.  Hit the link for what Katt has to say.

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