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Shrimp Bisque

Shrimp Bisque

2 cans evaporated milk
1 small onion diced
1 can small shrimp
1 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. paprika
1 tsp. pepper
2 T. olive oil
2 T. flour

Dice a small onion and sauté with olive oil and butter. Season with pepper and garlic powder. Add 2 T. flour and allow it to break down. Add 2 cans of evaporated milk. Add l can of shrimp to the pot and stir. Add l T. Paprika, stir and cover Allow the soup to simmer for 30 minutes.

Coconut Beer Batter Spam with Raspberry Horseradish

Coconut Beer Batter Spam with Raspberry Horseradish

2 3⁄4 C. flour
2 T. oil
2 eggs
6 oz. cold water
16 oz. beer, flat
3⁄4 tsp. salt
1 dash pepper
1 1⁄2 tsp. garlic powder
1 (12 oz.) can Spam
2 C. shredded coconut
1 C. raspberry sauce or 1 C. raspberry jelly
3 T. horseradish sauce

Open beer and leave at room temperature overnight. Chill beer and then add water, oil and eggs.
Mix just enough to break the egg yolks. In separate bowl, mix flour, salt, pepper and garlic powder.
Add to liquid ingredients, while stirring slowly. Add coconut and stir slowly. Prepare deep fryer as directed by manufacturer. When oil is ready, dip 1-inch wide strips of Spam in beer batter and deep fry until they float to the surface. To make raspberry sauce, combine raspberry syrup or jelly with horseradish sauce in small bowl. Dip in raspberry sauce and enjoy.

LTS Simple Beef Vegetable Soup

LTS Simple Beef Vegetable Soup

3/4 C. dried lima beans
1 pound canned stew beef
1 1/2 C. dehydrated carrots
1/4 C. dehydrated onion
salt, pepper and celery salt

Soak dried lima beans overnight. In a large pot, combine lima beans and meat, bring to a boil and cook for 1 1/2 hours Add carrots and onions and cook for an additional 10-20 minutes until vegetables are full re-hydrated. Season with the celery salt, salt and pepper.

Gemütlichkeit Spamwich

Gemütlichkeit Spamwich

8 oz. bacon
1 C. diced yellow onion
1 C. flour (divided)
2/3 C. apple cider vinegar
1/3 C. sugar
Salt and pepper to taste
4 C. thinly sliced green and red cabbage
12 hamburger-size pretzel rolls
½ C. vegetable oil
2 cans (12 oz. each) Spam with bacon
3 large eggs, beaten
1 ½ C. panko bread crumbs
¼ C. sweet spicy mustard

Dice bacon into ½-inch pieces. Cook in skillet over low heat until crispy; drain on paper towels and set aside. Saute onion in skillet with 2 to 3 T. the bacon drippings. Cook over medium-low heat until softened, about 5 minutes. Sprinkle onion with 1 T. the flour. Cook and stir 2 minutes. Add vinegar and sugar and stir until sugar dissolves. Season as desired with salt and pepper. Add cabbage and stir until it slightly wilts, about 1 minute. Add reserved bacon. Remove from heat and set aside. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Cut pretzel rolls in half. Lightly brush rolls with a small amount of oil and place face-side down on a baking sheet. Lightly toast rolls in preheated oven about 5 to 10 minutes; set aside. Place remaining oil in a large nonstick skillet (enough to cover bottom of pan) and heat over medium heat. Slice each can of Spam with bacon into 6 lengthwise slices (for a total of 12 slices). Place flour, eggs and panko crumbs into three separate pans. Dip each slice of Spam into flour, followed by egg and then panko crumbs. Sauté slices until golden brown on both sides. Place slices in warm oven as you finish each batch and hold until all slices have been browned. For assembly, spread bottom half of each toasted pretzel bun with mustard. Top with slice of Spam and the cabbage slaw. Top with roll tops and serve immediately.

Glass Noodle and Spam Stir Fry

Glass Noodle and Spam Stir Fry

2 C. glass noodles / cellophone noodle
1 C. spam cut into small cube
1 tsp. oil
1 tsp. dice garlic
1 small grated carrot
3 small red chili pepper
3 C. bean sprouts
200 ml any stock of your preferences
2 tsp. otona no furikake (seaweed)

Soak the glass noodle in water for 2 to 3 minutes till its soft them drain and set aside. With oil pan fry spam ,garlic ,small chili pepper (optional )and grated carrots till spam are cooked and brown. Add the soften glass noodle and beansprout with stock and bring it to a boil then add seasoning then stir fry it Serve glass noodle /cellophane noodle and spam and top with furikake.

Wheat Berries & Spam

Wheat Berries & Spam

3 C. wheat grain/wheat berries
Water to cover the wheat
2 T. peanut oil
1 can Spam ham, cut into ½” cubes
1 tsp. minced garlic
1/2 red bell pepper cut in small cubes
1 C. water
1 tomato cut in small cubes
1/2 C. chives, chopped finely
1/2 C. cilantro, chopped small

Cover the wheat with water and set aside for one hour or until the water is absorbed. Heat the oil and the garlic, stirring to prevent garlic from burning. Add spam and bell pepper, continuing to sauté and stirring gently. Add the hydrated wheat berries, mix well, and continue to cook. Add 1 C. water, cover and lower heat to medium-low. Cook about 15 minutes, until wheat berries are soft and dish is heated through. Stir in chives and cilantro, and serve garnished with the tomatoes.

Spam Musubi Recipe

Spam Musubi Recipe

2 C. short grain rice
2 T. rice vinegar
2 T. sugar
1 T. salt
1 can Spam
3 T. soy sauce
2 T. sugar
2 T. mirin or rice vinegar
2-4 sheets nori (seaweed)

Make rice. Pour rice into a large bowl and swirl around in cold water. Pour water out (you may want to use a cheese cloth) and repeat twice more until water around rice is clear. In a medium pot over high heat, place rinsed rice and 2 C. cold water. Leave uncovered and bring to a boil. Once the pot begins to boil, reduce the heat to low and cover for 15 minutes. Keeping cover on, remove pot from heat and let sit for 10 minutes. In a separate small bowl or ramekin, mix rice vinegar, sugar, salt and microwave until warm (30 seconds). Uncover rice and mix in rice vinegar mixture to coat rice. Let rice sit out until at room temperature. Remove Spam from can and slice into 8-10 equal slices. Prep spam musubi sauce. While rice cools, in a small bowl mix together the soy sauce, sugar and mirin / rice vinegar. Set aside. Heat a large skillet to medium heat and add spam slices. Once slices begin to crisp on both sides, turn heat low and add soy sauce mixture making sure to flip and coat quickly.  Remove caramelized Spam and put aside on a plate. Assemble Spam Musubi. In a rice mold, press down half a C. cooled rice. You can also form your spam musubi without mold by pressing a portion of rice in a small, rectangle tupperware container like we did. Cut long strips of nori / seaweed, about 2-3″ wide and 4-5″ long–enough to wrap around your rice patty. Place rice patty in the center of seaweed strip, and top with one slice of caramelized spam. Wrap seaweed around spam and seal. If seaweed doesn’t immediately stick, lightly wet your fingers and gently rub seaweed. Enjoy your spam musubi fresh, or cling wrap and warm up as a snack

Spam Pinkabet Stir Fry

Spam Pinkabet Stir Fry

4 Japanese long eggplant
2 T. cooking oil
2 bay leaves (laurel)
2 C. water
2 C. cherry tomatoes
1 whole yellow or red onion
2 inch finger piece ginger sliced in half crushed
1-2 T. minced garlic More the better!
Salt and pepper, to taste
2 T. bagoong (Filipino fish sauce) or harm ha (Chinese fine shrimp paste)
1/2 C. water
2 C. long beans
1/4 lb. sweet peppers
2 long bittermelons cut
1 pound whole okra pods
1/4 pound kabocha pumpkin
2 zucchini
1 can low sodium SPAM

Soak all big veggies in water then drain. Cut all large veggies in diagonal cuts as this is a stir fry and you want the veggies to cook fast. Heat a large pot or wok over medium-high heat. Add oil, onion, ginger, garlic and bay leaves. Stir fry to release aromatic but do not burn. Add tomatoes and continue to stir fry. Add long beans and stir about 3 minutes. Add bittermelon, eggplant, pumpkin, zucchini, and okra last. Each layer of veggies about 3 minutes each. Cut SPAM into 1-2 inch cubes. Add water if it get dry. Add bagoong or shrimp sauce and a little more water, if needed. TASTE! Don’t make it salty! You may add sugar if you want it a little sweet. It’s up to you. You’re da cook!

SPAM Paté

SPAM Paté

1 stick of room temperature unsalted butter
1 medium shallot finely chopped
1 garlic clove finely chopped
1 tsp. dried crushed thyme
1 12-oz. can SPAM cut into cubes
3 T. Jack Daniels
4 T. heavy cream

Melt 2 T. unsalted butter in skillet on low heat. Add shallots and garlic. Sauté until translucent. Add thyme and cubed SPAM and continue to sauté on medium/low heat for about 3 minutes, being sure not to allow any browning of ingredients. Remove skillet from heat and add 3 T. Jack Daniels. Be very careful when bringing skillet back to heat to Flambé ingredients. Tilt skillet just by your flame and ingredients will ignite. Allow flames to go out on their own. Once flame is out, turn off heat. Transfer ingredients to food processor being sure to scrape out all the yummy bits in skillet. Allow to cool in processor for just a few minutes. Add heavy cream and last 6 T. butter (cut into four cubes). Pulse in processor until ingredients are roughly combined then process until pate reaches the consistency you are looking for. Can be served still warm or cooled. SPAM paté can be served with crusty French bread or Cornichon (small sweet pickled gherkins).

Spam Tortilla Espanola

Spam Tortilla Espanola

1 T, Olive Oil
1 small Onion, finely chopped
1 Potato, cooked and cut into ¼” dice
4 oz. Spam, cut into ¼” dice
4 large Eggs, beaten
2 tsp. Butter
1 tsp. Parsley
Salt & Pepper
Chives, for Garnish

Heat olive oil in 7-8 inch pan, add the onion and cook for a few minutes. Add potato and spam, cook a few more minutes, then dump into the bowl with the beaten eggs. Season with salt and pepper and mix well. Melt butter in the pan, add the egg mixture and parsley and cook until tortilla is firm. Slice onto plate, cut into wedges and garnish with chives.

Hawaiian Fried Breakfast Rice

Hawaiian Fried Breakfast Rice

4 tsp. extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 C. purple onion
1 bunch green onions
1 tsp. minced garlic
1 red bell pepper (small, minced)
4 C. brown rice (or leftover white)
1 C. fresh pineapple (chopped, about 1/2 medium pineapple)
1 C. bacon (crumbled, chopped Spam, or chopped ham)
3 T. low sodium soy sauce
2 tsp. brown sugar
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
eggs (4-5 if scrambling; 1 egg per person if frying)
salt
pepper

In a large skillet over medium heat, heat the olive oil. When hot, add the red onion, firm ends of the green onions, garlic, and bell pepper and sauté until the onions are fragrant and the peppers are tender crisp. While the veggies are cooking, whisk together the soy sauce, brown sugar, and ginger. Set aside. Add the rice to the pan and stir to combine, cooking until the rice is heated through. Add the bacon or ham and cook until heated through. Add the soy sauce mixture and stir to combine. Add the green tops of the green onions and the pineapple and stir to combine. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Cover and turn heat to low to keep warm. In a separate pan, cook eggs as desired (we’ve done scrambled and fried and I think we prefer them scrambled; if you fry the eggs, plan on frying at least 1 egg per person.) If you scramble the eggs, mix them in with the rice before serving. If frying, divide the rice into individual portions before serving, then top with an egg and serve immediately.

Huevos Rancheros SPAM style!

Huevos Rancheros SPAM style!

1 Can of SPAM
Four corn tortillas
1 Can refried beans
4 Eggs
Salsa
Sour cream
Avocado

SPAM has different flavors depending on how you choose to cook it. For this recipes, we will slice the SPAM into eight equal sized pieces. Place the slices in a frying pan and cook on medium heat. Flip midway through cooking to avoid burning the SPAM. You want the SPAM to end up very crispy. And a little oil to the pan and heat your tortillas in the same pan in which you cooked the SPAM. On a separate burner or microwave heat your beans. Spread the beans in a generous layer on the tortillas that you have fried until crispy. Next fry up your eggs. You can prepare them to each person’s preference. Add your SPAM on top of the beans and then your eggs. Top the stack off with a slice of avocado, some salsa, and a dab of sour cream. Viola! You have just made easy SPAM Huevos Rancheros! Fun, easy, and inexpensive!

Corn & Spam Pancakes

Corn & Spam Pancakes

1 7-oz. can SPAM® Classic, finely chopped
1 8-oz. can cream-style corn
1 large egg
1 C. milk
1 C. pancake mix
1 T. vegetable oil

In medium bowl, combine pancake mix, milk, corn, egg and oil. Stir in SPAM® Classic. On greased griddle, pour batter using 1/3 C. for each pancake; cook over medium heat until browned on bottom. Turn and brown other side. Serve pancakes with maple or buttered pancake syrup or honey.

Spam & Eggs

Spam & Eggs

12oz. Spam, Cubed
2 Eggs, Beaten
2 oz. Cheddar, shredded

Heat a non-stick skillet over medium heat. Pour in eggs, then Spam. Cook, stirring, until eggs are nearly done, then sprinkle cheese over, and stir until melted.

Pinto Beef Tamale Pie

Pinto Beef Tamale Pie

1 ¼ C. cornmeal
½ tsp. salt
¼ C. water
1 (12oz) can evaporated milk
1 (4oz) can diced green chiles
½ tsp. onion powder
1 C. water
½ tsp. garlic powder
1 (12oz) can beef chunks
½ tsp. cumin
2 (15 oz) cans pinto beans, drain
¼ tsp. sugar
¼-1/2 tsp. chili powder

Combine cornmeal, salt, milk and water in small saucepan. Cook on medium heat. Stir until bubbling; continue stirring until VERY thick, 2-3 more minutes. Save ½ C. cornmeal mixture; cover with plastic wrap. Put rest of mixture in a lump in bottom of greased 10-inch pie plate. Allow to cool 2-3 minutes. Using a slightly wet had, press dough to cover bottom and sides of plate. Bake in 425ºoven for 10 minutes. While crust is baking, pour beef into medium saucepan and break up. Add rest of ingredients and bring to a boil. Simmer, uncovered, 5 minutes, stirring often. Spread pinto beef mixture over baked cornmeal. On a piece of waxed paper flatten reserved cornmeal into an 8-inch round. Place on center of bean filling. Bake pie for further 15 minutes and serve. Serves 6. Variations: Pinto beef filling can also be served in tortillas, on tostadas or over rice

Pineapple Spam and Green Bean Stir

Pineapple Spam and Green Bean Stir

1 C. rice
2 C. water
1 can of spam
2 small onions, sliced thinly into half moons
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 T. minced ginger
20 oz. can of pineapple slices, cut into cubes (or chunks)
1 C. juice reserved from the canned pineapple
3 T. teriyaki sauce (or more to taste)
1 1/2 C. frozen green beans

Place rice in water in a covered pot. Simmer for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, carefully remove the SPAM from its container and cube into bite size pieces. Fry in a skillet on medium to medium high heat. While the SPAM is cooking, slice the onions. Once the SPAM begins to turn light brown, add the onions. Once the SPAM and onions are a nice shade of brown, add the pineapple slices. Add splashes of reserved pineapple juice from the can to help everything get caramelized. Once the pineapple begins to turn light brown add the garlic, ginger, teriyaki, green beans and any left over juice. The green beans should start to get little black specks on them right about the time the rice is done. Serve the stir fry over the rice. Top with red pepper flakes and soy sauce if that is your sort of thing.

Spam Steaks in Port Wine

Spam Steaks in Port Wine

1 bunch of spring onions
¼ C. butter
2 tsp. olive oil
2 C. chestnut mushrooms, or a mixture of mushrooms
12oz. Spam, cut into thick slices
¼ C. Port
2 tsp. Dijon mustard
carrot and zucchini ribbons to serve

Trim away and discard the green stalks from the spring onions and roughly chop the white part. Heat the butter and oil in a large frying pan, add the spring onions and cook until just golden in color. Add the mushrooms, cook for 3 minutes then remove from the pan with a slotted spoon onto a warmed plate. Put the Spam steaks into the pan and heat until slightly brown on both sides. Pour the port over the Spam and add the mustard. Return the spring onions and mushrooms to the pan and heat well. Arrange the spring onions and mushrooms on a warm serving platter and place the Spam steaks on top. Serve with carrot and zucchini ribbons. If you wanted, you could flavor the ingredients with grated ginger instead of mustard.

LTS Fideo with Vienna Sausage

LTS Fideo with Vienna Sausage

Fideo is a pasta that look like short thin strands of spaghetti. We sometimes see it as vermicelli. Typically it is found in the Latin section of a market. It is thinner and cooks more quickly than spaghetti. You could substitute angel hair pasta, broken into smaller lengths.

2 T. Vegetable Oil
2 (4.6oz) cans Vienna Sausages, drained and cut into 1/2 “ pieces
7 oz. dry Fideo Noodles, uncooked
3 (8oz.) cans Tomato Sauce
1-2 T. dehydrated Bell Pepper
2 T. dehydrated Onion
1 ½ C. Water
1 tsp. dehydrated Garlic

Heat 1 T. oil in large skillet over medium heat. Add sausages; cook 3 to 5 minutes or until browned. Remove from skillet; set aside. Add remaining 1 T. oil and fideo to skillet. Stir to coat fideo with oil; cook over medium heat 1 to 2 minutes or until fideo is golden brown, stirring constantly. Stir in tomato sauce and water and mix in your dried/dehydrated vegetables. Return sausages to skillet. Reduce heat to medium-low; cover and simmer 10 minutes or until fideo is tender.

LTS Wacky Retro Penny Pancakes

LTS Wacky Retro Penny Pancakes

1 T. Oil
1 can Vienna Sausages
2 3/4 C. pancake mix (homemade or packaged mix)
2 1/4 C. water
1/3 C. oil
Maple Syrup

Slice Vienna sausages into ¼ inch thick pennies, and brown on both sides in 1 T. oil. While sausages are cooking, combine pancake mix, water and oil; mix well. Group several sausage slices together and pour enough batter over them to form the pancake around the sausages. When bubbles form on surface of the pancake, flip and cook until done.

Brown Rice & Shrimp

Brown Rice & Shrimp

Brown Rice & Shrimp

 

2 C. of brown rice

1 can shrimp, 6 1/2 oz. size

1 C. of freeze dried green beans

1 T. of onion flakes

1/2 tsp of salt

1/8 tsp of oregano

1/8 tsp of thyme

1 T. of oil

5 C. of water

 

To boiling water and oil, add rice, spices and onion. Simmer for 30-45 minutes. During the last three to four minutes, add shrimp and string beans.

Easy Spam Fried Rice

Easy Spam Fried Rice

2 large eggs, beaten
3 C. cooked short grain rice
2 tsp. oil
½ tsp. onion powder
few grinds of freshly ground black pepper
2 tsp. oyster sauce
1 C. finely diced spam
1 tsp. brown sugar or evaporated cane juice crystals
1-1/2 tsp. lower sodium soy sauce
¾ C. frozen mixed corn and peas

Spray a large non-stick frying pan with non-stick spray and place on medium-high heat. Add eggs. Scramble and cook until done. Remove to a large bowl. Heat oil in the frying pan over medium high heat. Add rice. Sprinkle with onion powder and pepper, then drizzle on oyster sauce. Stir-fry 3-4 minutes until well mixed and heated through. Remove to the bowl with the scramble eggs. Swirl sugar and soy sauce together in the frying pan and place back on medium-high heat. Add spam. Mix and fry until the liquid has mostly evaporated and the spam is browned. Stir in the corn and peas, then add the rice and eggs back in. Stir-fry 3-5 more minutes until well mixed and heated through.

Tuna Cakes with Red Pepper & Quick Remoulade Sauce

Tuna Cakes with Red Pepper & Quick Remoulade Sauce

Tuna Cakes with Red Pepper & Quick Remoulade Sauce

Tuna Cakes with Red Pepper:

 

2 T. olive oil

1 medium onion, minced

1/2 medium red bell pepper, minced

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 large egg, beaten

1 (6 oz) can tuna, drained

1/4 C. breadcrumbs

1/2 tsp. salt

1/8 tsp. pepper

Canola oil, for shallow frying

 

Heat olive oil in a medium skillet over medium heat; add onion and red pepper and cook until softened and starting to brown, about 7 minutes, stirring occasionally.  Add garlic and cook 2 minutes, stirring frequently; cool.  Mix together the onion mixture, egg, tuna, breadcrumbs, salt, and pepper. Form the mixture into 4 patties.  Add canola oil to lightly coat the bottom of a large nonstick pan over medium heat.  Add the patties and fry until golden brown on both sides, about 2 minutes per side.  Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate to drain any excess oil. Serve with Quick Remoulade Sauce

 

Quick Remoulade Sauce

 

2 T. mayo

2 T. plain Greek yogurt

1 T. minced fresh parsley

2 tsp. ketchup

1 tsp. whole-grain mustard

1 tsp. hot sauce (more or less to taste)

1 tsp. lemon juice

1/4 tsp. paprika

Pinch salt and pepper

 

Stir together all ingredients; store refrigerated until serving.

Cornbread and Clam Scallop

Cornbread and Clam Scallop

Cornbread and Clam Scallop

 

1 5-oz (142-g) tin baby clams, drained

3 green onions, sliced

1 T. butter, melted

¼ cup (60 mL) chopped cilantro

1 cup (250 mL) cornbread crumbs

¾ cup (180 mL) heavy cream

½ cup (125 mL) grated Cheddar cheese

freshly ground black pepper, to taste

 

Preheat oven to 350˚F (180˚C). Butter a medium casserole dish and set aside. In a small bowl, place clams, green onions, melted butter, cilantro, and cornbread crumbs. Toss to combine and place in casserole. Pour cream over mixture evenly. Top with grated cheese and pepper.  Bake for 15– 20. minutes, until lightly browned and bubbly.