Our last blog was about Beach Pizza. This one is about the other lunch we had while camping. Spam Musubi. What is Spam Musubi? It’s kinda like sushi. You basically take sushi rice, information pills Spam and wrap it up in Nori Seaweed(the kind used for sushi). Simple right? It’s also fun to make. Of course you can add extra ingredients just for fun. We thought it was time to challenge ourselves and try new recipes for our camping trips and this is one of them. It worked out so well it has become a staple in our lunches.
Fry Spam for a couple minutes on each side till it gets a little crispy
Put them on a plate to cool when done
When rice is done let it cool
Heat a dry frying pan for Nori
When hot, Use tongs to heat nori on both sides till it starts to get bright green
About 30 seconds on both sides or till its a little flexible.
Don't over cook or it will be no good
Grab Musubi maker
Lay the Nori on a plate
Place maker in the middle of the Nori
Using your hands add some rice(about the size of a large meatball) inside the maker.
Evenly spread it out
You can use more if you like
Press rice down
Drizzle some plum vinegar
Add a slice of Spam
Sprinkle a little rice seasoning
Add more rice on top
Press rice and Spam down
Slide Musubi maker up an away
Wrap the seaweed around and use water to seal
Lay them seal side down
Put in container or zip lock bag and refrigerate
Now you have perfect camping lunch
Notes
This works best with a Spam Musubi press. You can get them for less than $10 on Amazon or Houserice.com. Some people use soy sauce, we used plum vinegar.
Adapted from when we were camping. We used leftovers but you can make it at home with a frying pan or a frying pan on your electric grill. I prefer cast iron.
Ingredients
8 sandwich rolls
1 Hot Salami or hard cured meat of your choice
1 package of Campari tomatoes
8 oz of Irish cheddar cheese
Instructions
Cut rolls in half lengthwise.
Cut tomatoes in half, ask set aside
Slice cheese, advice set aside
Slice salami and set aside
Put 4 slices of salami in pan or on grill
Cook for a minute or two on each side
Put 4 tomatoes in same pan or on grill skin side up
Cook for about a minute
Turn tomatoes over
Cluster tomatoes and salami together with a couple slices of cheese
Cook for a couple minutes, capsule cheese should just start to melt
Put half of a roll on top and cover for a minute or two till cheese melts
Take spatula and remove from grill or pan and plate bread side down.
Do not smash tomatoes, as the juice is key to keeping sandwich from being dry
Careful this can be a bit messy
So you may have to scoop melted cheese that tries to slip away
Serve immediately.
If you have a big enough pan or grill you can do more then one at at time
Just be careful to keep ingredients in separate clusters for each roll
Notes
You can add some fresh cut Basil on top at the end or some hot sauce, Kalamata olives, or thin sliced red onions.
Beach camping has finally arrived. A little late, but it is here and we are so excited!!! Here are a few pics from our little adventure. Hope you like them. And for those of you who want to know. Our first night, we had salmon steaks, asparagus and mashed potatoes for dinner. Our second day, breakfast was scrambled eggs, bacon and new red potatoes boiled in sea water. Lunch we had Spam musubi, dinner was vegetable chilli that we added hot salami to, with a side of grilled corn and for desert, Jello chocolate pudding cups!!! Our last day if we have any leftovers we incorporate them into the meals. Breakfast was the usual eggs and bacon but with mashed potato’s. For lunch we had grilled cheese with cucumber and cherry tomato sandwiches. But, since we had left over salami………… Jason grilled the salami and cherry tomatoes, put some cheese and bread on top for amazing upside down grilled sandwiches!! Of course he was nice enough to turn them right side up when it was time to eat – just like mini beach pizzas !
With our first camping excursion over we look forward to the next. So until then we will post more of what summer in NYC is all about.
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