Celery and Squid

• Equal quantities of squid or cuttlefish, and of celery
• Cooking wine or sherry
• (Sesame oil)

To prepare squid/cuttlefish, remove head with tendrils; discard head but save tendrils. Strip purplish skin from body and remove its single white, plate-like bone. Lay the body on the cutting board, skin side up. With sharp knife score it in a grid pattern; finally cut it into rectangles approximately 1 x ½ inch in size.

Chop celery in long, thin diagonal pieces.

To cook the dis