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‘Squidy- ready – Do’ Salad
Topic ingredient: Squid
As probably many heard that sea food in general is higher suggested by the Health Professionals than normal meat. It’s light for stomach digestion and normally very delicious too. What i dug on squid is that it is a perfect source of Selenium, Riboflavin and Vitamin B12. Quite a rare collection, huh?!
Moreover, I found an interesting article on Squid which tells us that lots of harmful bacteria “live happily in fish but avoid squid”. Squid has its own bacteria that defends itself from all the infections that paralyze all other fish-like species. This is amazing, dont you think?
From Now on, from all the sea food I feel like eating only squid! 
And now…. Let’s make Squidy-Ready-Do Salad! (for 2 serving)
This dish is too simple, if you have squid which is already skinned. But if you start with a row un-skinned squid (which is much better, if you want to make sure about safety of your ingredients), then you can refer to the article “How To Handle Squid In Your Kitchen” . 
When squid is cut prepare the other very healthy ingredient – broccoli! One medium – to big size floret. Wash it and cut in such a way that all florettes are untouched. Just try to divide different florettes from each other. I love broccoli because of it’s always free and green and flowery look 
Now, put the water to boil and add salt (1 tea spoon for 1 litr of water). First we gonna boil squid. Be aware that the less you boil squid or broccoli, the more vitamins you will eat.
15 seconds of squid boiling (the water should boil!). And then You can put broccoli to the same salty water and boil:
40 seconds. Read more…
How To Handle Squid In Your Kitchen
Oh No! This is NOT about How To Grow Squids In Your Kitchen ^.^
I thought that this article will be very useful for those, who love making sea-food from fresh unready ingredients or for those, who love adventures with unknown food. For me it was the second. I have never cooked sea food before, therefore I can’t yet love it. But i really enjoy experiments in cooking. So, here is the story:
My honey bought fresh squid two days ago. It was surprisingly cheap on the market, so he didn’t hesitate to buy non-skinned one. Having an experience in the past of another squid that died in our fridge within 5 days from purchase (I should have put it into the frizzier), I decided to cook the new one immediately after i remembered about its existence in our refrigerator.
I have to warn you, Handling the Fresh Squid is not very pleasant procedure since it involves cutting flesh, removing eyes and brrrr, therefore, you have to be prepared for anything. Get your cooking gloves (the soft plastic and transparent ones) and Relax. It doesn’t bite! Often..
You have to start from cutting out and removing the squid body from the tube. It won’t get removed unless you cut the its ligaments from inside. Continue pulling it out and get rid of everything from inside the tube, except for the meat part which is little harder than the rest of innards.
Here is the main part of squid:
How about Korean mini pizza with young Spring Onions???
Topic Ingredient: young Spring Onions:
Some of you probably know that young Spring Onion is called Scallions. This is a right name for the type of onion that we are going to use in our recipe.
Scallion is genuinely healthy ingredient for any salad, seasoning or fried food. It’s should be cooked for about 1-2 minutes. Overcooking it (or any other vegetable) will kill all the goodies in the ‘greenies’.
“A 60–g portion (three onions) is a rich source of vitamin C; a source of foliate, calcium, and iron; contains 400 μg of carotene; provides 1.8 g of dietary fiber; supplies 15 kcal (65 kJ)”, from encyclopedia.com. Moreover, it is said that green onions are great to help you control your weight and generally for health too.
Korean mini pizza:
Korean Pajan is the name for Korean style pizza. Its is very easy to make. The recipe is given for two people.
50-70 G of young Spring Onions
100 – 150 G of sea shell meat
50 G of carrot
50 G of Сourgettes (1/3 of medium size)
2 eggs
2 spoons of Flour (or Pajan mix, which is available in Korea)
little salt and black pepper
My 1st post on Pundana Banana!
It is very important moment for me…. my first blog! I can’t wait to run it full and share it with friends and the rest of the world!
My plans are to make a healthy food blog that can educate health capacity of the ingredients that we cook from every day as well as share my recipes. Most of them are experimentation on the original recipe. Many things are similar. After all, what we can do with food items? Boil, fry, steam, bake, BBQ, cold BBQ, dry and water…. mix, blend, crush, cut, chop ….. is there anything else? I bet just more verbs that mean very similar to what was already mentioned. Therefore, let’s not go into details of recipe copyrights and start our healthy food journey!
Later, I will update my readers on healthy lifestyles in different parts of the world. As being healthy at different corners of the globe may vary. So, we’ll see how is that possible.
The list of evaluated restaurants in my area and the city will be available also together with Google Maps. Of course, I cant go beyond Seoul city or Korea, since I stay here.
Welcome to my blog again and thank you for visiting!
