I'm a lawyer who rather be a Michelin rated chef. Cooking is not just an escape. I don't have too many artistic talents, and cooking seems to be one of the few things that I can create that people just enjoy. I'm starting this blog to keep track of all the meals I create for home and for friends. As for my first entry, I'm posting about my spam dinner with olive and erik tomorrow night. In college, I started cooking and spam was my first ingredient. I've evolved since then, and so has my spam meals.
Spam Musubi
4 cups cooked rice
1/2 cup rice vinegar (you can use more or less to your taste)
2-3 pinches of salt
1/2 cup mirin
sushi seaweed (cut to shape)
1 can spam cut long, cut as thin or thick as you like
chopped parsley 2-3 tablesppons
Reduce mirin to half in a skillet, fry the spam in the mirin until you get a nice glaze and the spam ends firmer in texture and a nice glaze.
mix rice, rice vinegar and salt together for the sushi rice.
sprinkly parsley on the spam lightly, and stack the sushi rice on top of the spam and shape with your hands (in hawaii they have box forms to do this for you, but it's more fun with your hands) - As an alternative you can place the spam first on the seaweed and roll the sushi rice to avoid the mess
wrap in seaweed
Spam Kimchee Jigae
2 cups kimchee (thoroughly pickled) coursely chopped
1 shallot coursely chopped
3-4 cloves of garlic chopped
1 small can of spam
1 package of tofu
1 tablespoons of butter
pork bones (for broth)
sautee the garlic and shallot in the butter in a pot
pour in 1 quart of water and boil with the pork bones
after the broth is made, remove pork bones, add the kimchee (with all the juices), spam and tofu
cook for 30 minutes
serve with cooked short grain rice.
