This. I used to start by frying day-old rice, clearing a space in the center and continuing with the other ingredients. But I saw a variation online that I like better:
I’d fry the Spam first and set it aside so it’s ready for that last step.
I’ll have settle for seconding musubi and atop fried rice. I did use it once to make a Denver omelet that fooled my mother-in-law who thought it was genuine ham.
Did her taste buds get shot off in the war?
Quite the opposite! She’s a super-taster and very picky eater. She hates anything with flavor, orders baked potatoes without salt, etc. I guess diced Spam, when pan- seared and mixed with whipped egg, onion and bell pepper, the difference is hard to detect.
Maybe she was distracted by arguing over the day’s planned family activities and bullying her grandson (my nephew).
Dad’s specialty was SPAM Salad Sandwiches.
OK, ‘SPAM is bad enough! You want me to add Miracle Whip to it? WTFO?’ some people might say. The reason you must use Miracle Whip is that SPAM is very fatty and salty. Mayonnaise is also fatty and salty. They don’t compliment each other. Miracle Whip, though often used in place of mayonnaise on sandwiches, bills itself a ‘salad dressing’. Miracle Whip is sweet, not salty. It also doesn’t taste like fat. Miracle Whip’s non-fatty sweetness balances out SPAM’s fatty saltiness. If you use mayonnaise instead, you’ll be disappointed. (SPAM salad is the only thing I use MW for.)
Dad would have to cajole people into trying a SPAM salad sandwich. Once they did, they were like, ‘So… Got any more?’
And of course, SPAM musubi and SPAM fried rice. And SPAM and eggs.
Simple- chop Spam into small pieces, brown in the fry pan, while browning get six or so eggs, beat with black pepper (you do not need salt), pour over browned Spam.
Scrambled eggs with Spam.
Fry Spam and onions until caramelized, then add to a basic mac and cheese. Delicious!
Spam sushi. Both nigiri, the type most are familiar with and maki, rolled sushi. Also Spam tempura.
In Hawaii, our McDonalds serve Spam, eggs and rice for breakfast.
My Mom would bake Spam with orange juice and pineapple for non-special occasions, for special occasions, we had canned ham. I didn’t know whole ham was real until the '80’s.
My favorite thing to eat Spam with is hamburger stew. Hamburger with frozen mixed veggies, tomato sauce and finished with creamed corn. The creamed corn gives it a slight sweetness (which my ex couldn’t stand) that’s offset perfectly with the salty Spam.
I haven’t tried it yet, but thinking about it, Spam would probably go well with chili.
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Seen, but not tried. Spam Katsu. Spam dipped in egg wash, coated with panko and deep fried.
I was going to recommend those! Also, spam & kimchi-fried rice:
Korean comfort food. Spam is the perfect complement to spicy-sour kimchi.
For those who won’t eat kimchi: spam kimbap:
Or, Hawaiian sliders:
For a more American dish: mac & spam:
I will try this. (I do not like mayonnaise, but do like Miracle Whip.)
Now I’m thinking of doing some devilled eggs with spam added into the yolk spread. They say die doing what you love…
Oh… Be sure to take the SPAM out of the can first.
I suppose you could try doing a sort of hash: sweat some chopped onion, add diced potatoes and diced Spam to the pan till they’re browned, serve it up with the steamed green veg of your choice.
Or if you really need to hide the Spam, dice it and add it to any sort of minestrone-style soup: start with some onion, some stock and a can of tomatoes, a handful of pieces of pasta, chopped/shredded veg of your choice, and the Spam and cook it for quite a while. It’ll freeze too.
SPAM is apparently at record popularity:
I thought the article might mention new recipes, but only lists SPAM musubi and budae jjigae, both of which were mentioned above.
It does at least confirm that pork is “the main ingredient in Spam”, though it fails to mention the percentage, or precisely what parts of the pig are involved.
Made the news here, too.
ETA:
The link claims the meat is “pork with ham.” That phrasing is unsettling to me.
It shouldn’t be. AIUI, ham is a leg cut that has been cured; while pork is uncured meat. You could probably make your own SPAM by grinding a pork butt and some ham, and adding salt, sugar, potato starch, and water.
The USDA simply claims that Pork is the meat from hogs, or domestic swine without requiring it to be cured or uncured. They also claim that Ham is the cured leg of pork. Fresh ham is an uncured leg of pork..
Hormel doesn’t say “fresh ham,” but since the process itself is a type of curing (adding salt and sodium nitrate), they probably get away with just calling it ham. Or they use cured ham, or whatever scraps are cheapest at the time.
All that said, it’s not clear that SPAM contains more than homeopathic quantities of leg meat. And the implication that it is somehow distinct from pork is odd (not all pork is ham, but all ham is pork).
Anyway, I have nothing against SPAM. I just find their phrasing amusing.
It’s apparently discontinued, but has anyone tried Spam Spread? https://www.google.com/search?q=spam+spread&rlz=1C1ASVC_enUS940US940&oq=spam+spread&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i60l2j69i61.7168j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I tried it when I was young, thinking “Hey, I like mayo on my Spam sandwich. This should be the same thing!”. Nope! I suspect this is product from hell that Spam haters, hate!
On to better things. Hawaiian style chow funn. Just salt and pepper for seasoning, Spam, carrots, cabbage and onions. Dryer than your usual Chinese style.
Edit: You would think this would be a logical choice, but I can’t stand Spam in my grilled cheese sandwich. Too salty. Thinking about it, it may be okay if I used unsalted butter or mayo.