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As we all know, food is love, and we all love food, especially if we’ve had Korean War-era field rations… or Spam.
I am going to be busy for a while, so you’ll have to do without my glorious person until I get back.
However, I will give you an ingredient if you want to try that angle, and here it is: the infamous, very misunderstood and somewhat oversalted canned pork shoulder product called SPAM.
I’ve made hash with SPAM. It also comes in a low-sodium version as well as a variety of flavors including SPAM w/Ham, SPAM bacon and hickory-smoked. It ain’t Grandma’s World War II version any more. No, I’m not advertising for Hormel’s honorable product. But maybe Sparks could make Ham & Mofos out of SPAM.
And there are, of course, Monty Python’s memorable ‘SPAM, SPAM, SPAM’ episodes.
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I’m afraid to be first in any thread about spam. YUCK
It’s okay. I understand.
An old trick my pal at work taught me is to slice your spam into 1/2 inch slabs and toss them in the smoker with your ribs or pork butt. Give ’em about 30 minutes and hit ’em with some BBQ sauce, cook another 10 minutes or so. All the fat will have rendered out and you’ll be surprised how great the flavor is.
Beer helps, too, because we all know smoking pork is thirsty work.
Don’t care too much for SPAM since I had to eat it as child, but do love SPAM Musubi (an Hawaiian tradition…in fact, most Hawaiians love SPAM) and it is addicting:
Ingredients:
2 slices SPAM® Classic – sliced 3/8″ thick
3 ounces cooked White rice, seasoned with Furikake (dried Seaweed Flakes) and toasted Sesame seeds
1 tablespoon Sweet Ginger Sesame Sauce
Whole sheet Nori(Dried Seaweed)
Directions:
(1) In large skillet, cook SPAM® Classic until lightly browned and crisp. Drizzle cooked SPAM® Classic with grill sauce or cooking sauce.
(2) Place rice into musubi press or line inside of empty SPAM® can with plastic wrap and place rice in can. Press rice down firmly.
(3) Sprinkle with seasoned furikake and toasted sesame seeds
(4) Place SPAM® Classic on rice in press or in can. Press down firmly.
(5)Remove SPAM® and rice from musubi press or can.
(6)On work surface, cut nori to desired width.
(7)Lay nori shiny-side-down; top with pressed SPAM® Classic & rice. Wrap nori around pressed SPAM® Classic & rice. Serve immediately (or wrap it in cellophane for future breakfast, lunch or dinner or snack.
Love that stuff. I could eat an entire roll.
SPAM as an ingredient was just a suggestion, not a have-to.
Since Spam and rice have been mentioned, here’s an easy way to really give white rice a boost. I use a rice cooker, but this works just as well on the stove top.
Ginger Rice
• 3 cups basmati rice
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 1/4 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon lemon zest
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro, for garnish
• Place the rice in a large pot and rinse under cold running water until the water runs clear. Drain well and add 4 1/2 cups water to the pot. Sprinkle with the salt and add the butter, ginger and lemon zest. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer. Cover and cook 15 minutes without removing the lid.
• Remove the lid and fluff the rice with a fork. Cover again and keep warm until ready to serve. For drier rice, leave the lid off after fluffing. Sprinkle with the chopped cilantro before serving.
Thinly sliced SPAM, fried, and used in a sammich with scrambled or over medium/hard fried eggs. Lightly toasted white bread, small amount of mayo. A slice of American (‘Merica … hell yeah)cheese if desired. We’re talking redneck heaven. Spam forms the foundation of the food pyramid in the South. Well, that and coleslaw, sweet tea, BBQ, white sop, sliders, all-the-way quality hotdogs, etc.
BTW, HMC…let’s not forget the moon pies!!!! The R C cola I was always able to do without. As for the BBQ, it’s Sonny’s for anyone passing through.
Grilled Spam and eggs, or for those of us who got to experience Hawaii, spam fried rice, spam musubi, and even spam kelaguen.
I was out in K-Bay for a systems test, and Spam with rice was on the Micky-Dee’s menu next to the 1/4 pounder w/ cheese.
OK, I’m a haole boy, sue me.
Also had saimin noodles with char-su pork.
Teriyaki SPAM, Jalapeño SPAM, Garlic SPAM, Tocino SPAM, Black Pepper SPAM, SPAM and cheese, Chorizo SPAM, Portuguese sausage SPAM. Anywhere the US military went in WW II and the war in Korea you will find people who’ve them some SPAM. Every ship I was on stationed on in Japan had SPAM every morning so the Filipino homeboys could have some SPAM, fried eggs and rice.
who love them some SPAM. Good grief.
Jalapeno Spam? gotta try some of that, I wonder if they have Teriyaki Spam?
Got both on the SPAM web page. You can order it and they send it to you in the US mail. Teriyaki is kind of too sweet for me but my son likes it pan fried and then cut into cubes, mixed with rice and topped with a fried egg and some soy sauce.
When did TAH turn into Pinterest?
As we speak, I am making baked meat and alfredo spaghetti for me and the Mrs.
Spam is a major ingredient in local cooking on the Island of Guam.
Spam is a major meat on ALL the islands !
Did somebody mention SPAM?
Oops, didn’t see this before I posted as a comment above.
Dang it.
I wouldn’t worry about it, I’ve done worse that that!
Thank you for spamming me!!!!! I needed that.
Any time! Can I have a Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam and Spam sandwich now?
We’re all out of Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam and Spam sandwiches, but you can have a Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, bacon and Spam sandwich instead.
Oh,… Awright then!
Any MRE recipes? One is Ranger pudding, it’s where you mix the coffee creamer in with the Cocoa Beverage Powder, add a little water and eat it. Hey, it sticks to your ribs and helps keep you warm when you’re out in the field during winter and chow isn’t being delivered until hours later! MRE Cheesecake? yeah, take a package of the Fruit Beverage powder (Army-issue premix Kool-Aid), mix it in a pouch with a packet of MRE Cheese Spread and an MRE cracker with a dash of water and there you go!!
Last August my brother and I rode from Albuquerque up to Billings, MT to visit No:3 daughter, No:1 son-in-law, and No:4 grandson.
We expected some rain and had adequate gear for it; what we didn’t expect was A FUCKING WINTER STORM IN AUGUST IN WYOMING when we got there.
We ended up spending the night in Cheyenne and pressing on the next day into the teeth of this FUCKING WINTER STORM IN AUGUST!
Stopping along the road in Wyoming we got out, 1 ea, a can of chili beans, Hatch green chiles, posole, and Spam from our saddlebags and poured them into a pot and heated it up. We ate it with tortillas and it was delicious. A nice hot meal in those conditions is very refreshing.
It took us all day to ride from Cheyenne to Casper, a mere 194 miles, where we stopped again to wait out the last of the storm. We were more afraid of getting run over by 18 wheelers and assholes than we were of crashing; it was really bad.
We had pizza and beer that night instead of more Spam, beans, and instant coffee.
Moral of this recipe is; Spam and beans are great motorcycle road rations.
Second moral of the story is; DON’T RIDE A MOTORCYCLE IN WYOMING! IT WILL TRY TO KILL YOU WITH A WINTER STORM IN THE DOG DAYS OF AUGUST!
During my Trucking days, I found I-80 across Wyoming to have THE WORST crosswinds. I’m not shitting, they would blow a lightly loaded semi truck over on a sunny day with dry asphalt!
I did find tinned corned beef at Aldi. That and Spam on the pantry shelf should provide some interesting dishes this winter.
Note: I do keep corned beef hash in the pantry, and have added the hickory smoke and lower sodium SPAM to it.
Korea flashback guys..with Spam!
Fried Spam sandwiches on toast with Mayo, yum.
GRILLED Spam on toast with cheese and diced onion, YUM!
Stuff Posing As Meat
OY VEY, I can’t believe I’d forgotten all about this until now, here’s a Jewish Food Zodiac, l’chaim!
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