Monday, 26 November 2012
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Fun With Spam
Spam has a bad reputation.
I've always had a soft spot in my heart for it though. When I was in elementary school, my dad would make my lunches. Sometimes instead of the typical peanut butter and jelly sandwich, he would make spam musubi.
Spam musubi is essentially a seaweed and rice sandwich. A slice of cooked spam is sandwiched between two layers of rice and wrapped with seasoned seaweed. Add some sort of seasoning, if you're so inclined. The result? Salty deliciousness.
Sure it's not the healthiest of foods, but one is pretty filling, and for me, nostalgic. Plus it beats the monotony of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!
Ingredients:
- hot white or brown rice
- salt water
- sheets of nori (seaweed)
- fried sliced spam
- not really an ingredient, but if you've got a musubi mold, it'll really help shape your spam musubi. Alternatively, you can use the can of spam as a mold, but you need to remove the top and bottom of the tin, so you can see through it.
Directions:
- Place a half sheet of nori, shiny side down, on a flat surface.
- Place the musubi mold or can of spam (with ends removed) over the half-sheet.
- Fill half way with hot rice, sprinkle with salted water and press. (the salt water prevents the rice from sticking to the press and flavors the rice.)
- Place a slice of fried SPAM in after pressing the rice, then fill mold, sprinkle with salt water and press again.
- Remove the mold and wrap the nori around the pressed musubi.
- Repeat with remaining pieces of SPAM.
- Enjoy!
photo credit goes to my dad!
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Comments (15)
I like spiced ham, but hate spam. Ironic. You might be able to fry and flavor and prepare it into something edible though (the above things might be tasty), but by itself yuck.
Swiss is the same way to me, I can't stand it unless it's either melted or grated on a salad with ranch dressing - both somehow magically transform the flavor.
I LOVE spam! My grandma used to make me spam sandwiches for breakfast when I was little. It holds a special place for me too. Also, these look delicious.
Korean people love spam haha. I don't really like pork except spam and samgyupsal (Korean bacon kinda thing)
We often had spam sandwiches packed in our school lunch; it was cheap and there were four of us in school. We used to refer to them as "Dog Meat" sandwiches. Hated it then, won't eat it now. My SO, Danny, loves it however.
Nothing quite as interesting as this.
I'm going to have to post my own SPAM recipe creation. (It was inspired by Monty Python.)
@agnophilo@xanga - yeah, spam by itself isn't really appealing. Gotta have some rice or something with it!
@SarahB - Oh my godddd spam sandwiches are the best. I'm glad you're sentimental about spam too :P
@iheartjournals@xanga - I'm not sure I've ever had samgyupsal! But I love bacon...and I love Korean food. Clearly I need to try it. :)
@crankycaregiver@xanga - Oh god. "Dog meat" kills any appetizing thoughts I had haha
@purpleranger - YES!! Do it, I wanna see! :D
Spam is great --- Fry it up until browned and serve with rice. Simple - easy - fast - good!
I grew up with spam and rice for breakfast (and snacks) as well! Haha, filipina mom.
I love how differently Spam is seen across the pond. Here in England, it's only really eaten by the elderly. Nobody else really buys or eats it anymore.
I do not like spam, but my bf does. He does not like sushi, but I do. I smell a compromise!
@NightShade_Tea@xanga - Yes, my mom, too. It's gotta be a Filipino thing.
I don't know which I hate more: spam or bologna. Spam is like bologna and salami having a baby. my dad used to make it for us and I could never catch onto it. ick.
i can't eat it pan fried because for some reason it feels like swallowing the dead sea.
i like it warm in toasted buttered sandwiches but that's about it.. it looks too processed for me so i only eat it once in a blue moon now
i know. it does have a bad rep, being a canned food and all. but i like spam. i too grew up with it. mostly as filling between white sandwich bread, but sometimes as ingredient for fried rice. thickly sliced and pan fried to a crisp on the outside. when you bite, soft salty juiciness to match with the slight crisp outer surface just awesome. definitely better than pb&j. ok, i'm hungry now.