SPAM MUSUBI RECIPE

Ingredients:

4 cups uncooked Japanese sushi rice

4 cups water

5 sheets sushi-nori (seaweed)

1 can SPAM, SPAM LOW SODIUM, or SPAM Lite

1/4 cup soy sauce

1/4 cup sugar 

1/4 cup sweet rice wine (mirin)

Furukaki seasoning

A SPAM Musubi Maker.

A SPAM Slicer if you have one.

Yields about 10 musubis

Cooking Instructions:

• Cook rice in rice cooker. If no rice cooker is available, put rice and water into a large heavy saucepan. Heat water and rice until boiling then immediately turn down and simmer for approximately 20-25 mins. or until soft and water is evaporated. 
• Boil soy sauce, sugar and rice wine. After it boils, turn off flame. 
• Cut SPAM into 1/4 in. wide slices or use a SPAM Slicer if you have one. Fry in pan. Soak fried SPAM in soy sauce mixture. 
• Line a SPAM Musubi Maker with sushi nori so that both sides stick straight up. Spread cooked rice across bottom of SPAM Musubi Maker, on top of nori - 1/4 inch high. 
• Sprinkle furukaki on top of rice. Place two pieces of SPAM in SPAM Musubi Maker on top of rice. SPAM should cover most of the length of the SPAM Musubi Maker  Spread more cooked rice on top of spam - 1/4 in. high. 
• Sprinkle furukaki on top of rice. Fold over one side of the nori. Use musubi maker insert to press down on top of nori, rice and SPAM. Fold over other side of nori and press down. 
• Remove musubi log from SPAM Musubi Maker. Cut to your desired length.

Enjoy so let's kaukau now!!  Posting this makes me hungry!!  :D

Misoyaki Butterfish Recipe

Ingredients:

4 pieces butterfish aka black cod aka sabelfish filets
1⁄3 Cup sake
1⁄3 Cup sweet mirin
2⁄3 Cup sugar
1 Cup white miso paste
1 inch grated ginger root
2 inches minced fine green onion


Instructions:

To make the misoyaki marinade, bring sake, mirin and sugar and ginger to a boil for 5 minutes.
Reduce to a simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and whisk in miso until well incorporated. Allow to cool.
Generously marinade butterfish in misoyaki marinade for 48-72 hours.
Pre-heat oven at 450 and bake fish for 5-8 minutes.
When fish is almost cooked broil for an additional 2-3 minutes until well caramelized. Make sure you watch the fish closely since it can burn quickly.
Add green onion and serve with steamed hot white rice!

Let's kaukau enjoy!!  :)

Filipino Pork Guisantes

Ingredients:

3-4 pounds boneless pork country style ribs

4-6 cloves garlic

4-8 bay leaves

1-2 tablespoon patis (fish sauce to taste)

1 tablespoon freshly cracked or coarsely ground pepper to taste

2 large yellow onions, sliced

1/2 cup water as needed

1 cup tomato paste or 4 cans unsalted tomato sauce

2 teaspoons chopped or sliced pimentos (sweet bell pepper) or 1 jar fancy chopped or sliced sweet pimentos with the juice

2-4 cups frozen peas

2 sticks of cinnamon

Instructions:

Separate the fat from the lean in the pork and slice the pork into stir-fry-size pieces. In a large saute pan, dutch oven or wok over high heat, saute pork fat until melted and drain off excess. (You don't need much more than a couple of teaspoons.) Reduce heat to medium-high and add garlic, bay leaves, black pepper, onion and lean pork. Stir-fry for 15-30 minutes or so until pork is cooked and browned well. Add water and simmer until it is evaporated. Add tomato paste/sauce and pimento and cinnamon sticks and simmer for a 30 minutes or so. Finally, add peas, stirring carefully to break up frozen clumps. Simmer more if meat is not yet tender;  Add more patis to taste.  Add sugar for sweetness Serve hot with rice.


Makes 6-10 servings.

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