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Spam always means "camping" to us, and the spouse generally comes home with a can once a month or so just for old time's sake (we're way too old and creaky at this stage of our lives to sleep on the ground any more).
Our favorite way to fix it is to turn it into breakfast tacos, or what I've heard some folks call breakfast burritos. Dice up the spam into chunks no bigger than 1/2 inch on a side. Heat a cast-iron skillet and spray with pan spray. Dump the spam chunks in and get them nice and crispy on all sides (takes a few minutes, not too long). Once they're all crispy, pour in eggs beaten up with a bit of water, and stir around until the eggs are cooked. Serve inside warmed flour tortillas. Optional: can also cut up a partially cooked potato and brown those chunks along with the spam before adding the eggs; stretches the result in case you are feeding a teenage boy with a hollow leg.
Quantities above are not defined because they're generally different each time we cook it. For the two of us, I'd use half of a small can or a quarter to a third of a large can of spam with probably 3 eggs and 4 flour tortillas. If the fraternity boy were home from college (and actually out of bed before noon to join us for breakfast), we'd use the whole can and 6 or 8 eggs to 10 tortillas.
MBW, that sounds great! Southdown, I had never thought about breading it! Hmmmm, may have to go get some spam. I like it the tried and true way, sliced thin and pan fried, put on bread or toast, with or without egg, must have a slice of cheddar!
dice it up and fry it in the skillet with onions, peppers and diced potatoes to make hash...serve with eggs. You can also put the hash in an oven safe bowl and crack the eggs over the top of the hash and bake in the oven. Very yummy.
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We had Spam this evening...fried in butter with a little brown sugar sprinkled over it on toast with a sunny side up egg!!! I had forgotten to take anything out of the freezer earlier..
dice it up and fry it in the skillet with onions, peppers and diced potatoes to make hash...serve with eggs. You can also put the hash in an oven safe bowl and crack the eggs over the top of the hash and bake in the oven. Very yummy.
We use to have Fried Spam and Fried Potatoes. Slice the Spam into slices and fry in the pan. Cut up some potatoes into bite sized chunks and fry those. Serve with Ketchup. I could NOT eat Spam w/o Ketchup.
Hubby used to cut it up into small squares and put it in his Mac n Cheese (EWWW to me).
I LOVE fried Spam as a kid and yet my kids have never had it.
Oh, at the Texas State Fair they have Fried Spam except it is battered and THEN fried. Have not tried it. probably won't either.
Wow, and I thought Spam was a think of the past. Now I've gotta go get some.
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Spam, spam, spam....
it's fun....
probably won't either.
