Nigel Slater’s squid recipes

Paired with fresh sweet watermelon or garlicky red peppers, grilled squid is the quintessential flavour of summerMost of the squid I cook is seared on the griddle, a rectangle of ridged cast iron that gets so hot it cooks each curl and wisp of seafood in the time it takes to pour a glass of wine. There is much smoke and splutter. If the taste of something can take you back to where you first met it, then grilled squid will forever be barefoot summers, dinner outdoors at Formica tables, raging su