You can, with a little dissection, remove and use cuttlefish ink sacs for the sauce or for your own homemade pasta that contrasts so nicely with the squid. Unfortunately, we do not have a good source of cuttlefish. Therefore, we prefer the following dish made with mixed seafood. Serve the dish with black, standard or, our alternative, green spinach pasta. Like the risotto and gnocchi that follow, it's a dish that offers incredible flexibility with multiple substitutions of squid, shrimp, shellfish and fish.
Risotto only requires close attention and short grain rice.
We like Arbrigo rice best, but other short rice works. This recipe easily expands to feed multitudes too. Our final choice was a uniquely Northern Italian fish gnocchi as well. It is sort of a fish and potato dumpling cooked in broth that melts in your mouth. Finally, to offer up the last Italian seafood system of recipe, I am offering seafood Gnocchi a wonderfully tender dish.