I was invited to visit my Japanese friend's place for dinner last night as my husband was away for an overnight trip to North West Coast of Vancouver Island. She said she will have "Nabe" for dinner. It's a Japanese hot pot which has a mixture of meat, seafood, vegetables and noodles cooked in the broth. I decided to bring some Salad rolls that have Miso flavoured meat and assorted vegetables wrapped in rice paper and served with spicy peanut sauce to dip.
When I opened the pantry, I saw a blue tin sitting in the very back of the cabinet. It was my father's in law's SPAM...!
Long story short, we gave him a tin of SPAM in his Christmas stocking for a joke when he, Mrs. and my sister-in-law were here for the Christmas. He 'unfortunately' had to leave the SPAM behind as they 'worried about the weight of Christmas luggage' back home.
What to do with this... I searched on the internet and found, "Ah, flavours of Hawaii!" It's called SPAM Musubi, and surprisingly there is a Wikipedia page for this, click HERE. When we were in Hawaii five years ago, we saw this in every convenience store and gift shop. It's a combination of Teriyaki flavoured SPAM with rice wrapped in Nori, seaweed, a very Japanese dish!
I made these for a joke and bought them over to my friend's place and... They liked the SPAM Musubi, specially their teen aged high school boy!
Ah...too bad you used up that Spam.
ReplyDeleteIt looks ah...different...I'm sure the seaweed and the rice is good for you though, and the Teriyaki sauce would give it some flavour.
We'll be sure to bring some more out with us this summer....or not.