Fry it like she did in the beginning until the outside is pretty crispy. Put it on a sandwich with only cheap white bread and mayonnaise, and nothing else. Fantastic.
@@yvonnetran6689 I discovered it well into adulthood, but it certainly does seem like one of those simple things that would get passed down through the generations. Thanks for replying.
my mom was a great cook and dad was a crane operator that made good money but at times he would get laid off. then mom would cook what she called 'poor people food' it might be spam, or SOS, rice with gravy and we kids loved it all! hot dogs split and broiled with strip of cheese, chocolate pudding on the stove for dessert. one meal i asked that SOS stood for and dad told me. mom said 'oh bob dont talk that way at the table!!' both mom and dad lived to be over 100, they and 3 siblings are gone now. we sure enjoyed those 'poor people' meals but maybe because those meals were unusual for us. glad my mom was good at that type of thing and made the best of it, they had both lived thru very hard times as kids and new how to deal with shortages of all types.
I am 73, I cook SOS often for my retired Marine husband. We love it…also love fried spam. We even boil noodles, with fat back (which most people do not even know exist anymore) and love the flavor…add a small dab of butter and you’re in business. 😊
@@JeffreyBrown-f4e we had lots of chicken and our fav was chicken and home made noodles. would come home from school and come in the back door to the kitchen and mom would have sheets of noodles drying on backs of kitchen chairs - oh so good. lots of cassroles and always a roast with gravy, mashed potatoes and a veg, dessert on sundays. good meals for holidays and oh that turkey and gravy and dressing. yum!
Yes, I remember those items. The cheese was great. We made Mac and cheese. Use the meat many different ways. My father loved the milk. My grandmother used to receive the food. My mother made us pick it up from her and put it bags, so no one saw the welfare food. Grandmother never had the food stamps, she died before they were used. As kids, we enjoyed the welfare food.
i ate so much (plus) that is what we called it back on the block,i shake when i see it at safeway or giant.i never made my kids eat it.i do remember those I B M punch cards we got to get that stuff.we also got govt grade A beef and gravey and pork and grevay. the truth i,it keep us alive.@@richardjohnson2692
Yes wary 1960s I was in first grade back then snd that’s how the government gave food assistance to us poor families. Now they give food stamps to poor families and drug addics who sell there assistance for pennies on the dollar to get there dope.
The high school I went to had a fishing club I belonged to. We would always backpack through Colorado mountains for a week long camping trip as a group guys and one teacher/club leader. All I ever brought to eat, 4 cans spam, frying pan and fishing pole/worms. Nothing better than fried spam and rainbow trout cooked over open campfire. Fond memories of the late 60's - 70's living on spam. Thanks
There is NOTHING like camping in Colorado. My entire childhood is filled with hundreds of those memories. From the sand dunes to Taylor reservoir, Grand Junction to Durango, Wolf Creek pass to Trout Creek pass, the front range to the western slope... Camping under a Colorado sky full of stars is truly an experience.
@@teajuanaltd And I love every bit of it, including the years of working at Arapahoe Basin ski resort all winter simply for a job skiing all day. Unfortunately the state's being taken over by flatlanders who don't appreciate it.
@HighCountryRambler I loved A basin and Keystone. I had a job every summer at a place called white water photography on the Arkansas River during rafting season my high school years. I would drive to work at 6am and grab my equipment and load up my backpack. I would hop on an ATV for a 10 mile trek through the most beautiful backwoods you have ever seen. At that point I would jump off the quad and do a 2 mile sprint until I hit the Cliffside where I would scale down to a rock called zoom flume and unload my equipment. I would wait for my particular group of rafts to come by and take detailed photos of each individual as well as the group. Then load everything up and haul ass back to the quad and race back to the lab. I would then develop the pictures and jump back in my car and fly to the spot they were pulling their rafts out and sell them the pictures right there on the river. Sometimes I could do 2 or 3 trips in one day. I was in the best shape of my life going on adventures and getting paid handsomely... After 38 years the influx of people became too much and I had to get out of there. Since then it's been Cali, Florida, Texas, AZ but Colorado will always have my heart.
This reminds me of something my grandmother would make when I was a kid. This brought back memories of my grandmother who was an amazing cook. She made everything without a recipe. She was a great woman.
@@DAVIDJOHNSON-pp3ke Food that kept you alive and you want to spare your kids that? Have you ever let your kids tried it without your commenting on it? You and THEY might be surprise. Just saying......
I fry Spam all the time. My great grand kids love it. I told them it's poor man's bacon.That's how I got them to try it, they love bacon! We love the Hickory.
I'm a little late for the spam party.. but at least I made it! Great recipe idea.. Thanks! I haven't had any of this stuff for years. When I was a kid, it was a staple in our house. And I when I grew up it was my favorite cook over an outdoor fire camping food! Don't even need a pan, just lay a slice on a forked stick and viola! And in these volatile times, it is a great choice for preppers. Will keep indefinitely, has protein and can be eaten right out of the can. And....if you want to crisp it up.. just cook it on a stick!! 😊👍🔥
I’m diggin the recipe and still love Spam in my 60s. Good ole workin folk comfort food. Please do a traditional Chip beef & gravy on toast recipe. S.O.S. 👌🏼👏🏼🤠
I never knew what to use evaporated milk in! This does look good, that gravy, especially! Creamy goodness! I’d probably fry up more mushrooms and maybe onions...this is giving me some great ideas, thank you!
Try evaporated milk in mashed potatoes it is awesome. Anything you use regular milk in you can use evaporated milk because all it is milk that's been cooked down where a lot of the water in the milk has been evaporated it's no big deal.
Try making sausage gravy with canned milk. Best always. All so put spam pork in beans onions little brown sugar salt pepper bake. Yummy with fried potatoes and vegetable
In USSR, we had no spam but the “Doktorskaya” (“Doctor's”) and “K zavtraku” (“Add to breakfast”) sausages that were much like spam by ingredients. Our mothers grilled the slices of a sausage on a pan and served it with fresh rye or wheat “white” bread, sometimes adding a homemade sauce from milk and powdered dried wild mushrooms (a typical component of a traditional Russian kitchen). Now in my fifties I remember the taste of those quick breakfasts with a bit of nostalgy. Modern sorts of sausages, including the “Doktorskaya”, often have no such taste. It is a matter of technology, not of my age. Soviet sausages were being made by strict rules of government standards (GOST), and modern sausage production is governed only by much more soft technical conditions (TU). Maybe I will remember the original taste of breakfasts of my childhood by using spam, as I tried it before and it was very similar by taste to cheapest sausages of Soviet times…
I'll take4 slices with that gravy please . A side of coleslaw , 2 thick slices of tomato . a buttered-bun ( to clean the plate ) . And a nice cold Brown Pop . EXCELENT lunch . Canada .
Thanks for sharing a wonderful meal. Something a little different the mushrooms with a spoon very good and the gravy was super easy. Thanks so much for sharing yummy yummy for my tummy.
Been making fried spam with gravy for years and using canned milk regular milk if I don't have canned milk. Not much on the and my not all of my family like mushrooms. I'm 74 and my mother and her mother always made this almost the same as yours and very good. I also chop up the spam into smaller pieces add it to macaroni and cheese and heated Campbell's pork and beans😋
We used to eat something similar to that Spam Mac n cheese n cream of mushroom soup with onions celery n mayb green peppers Best casserole ever. Yummy n I still think so even as a ole lady lol.
I found out my adult son liked Spam. He is 49 the 31st Oct, 23'. I am 77. I never have eaten Spam in my life. Reared on comfort food. Dad career military. Found out since 2020, when buying food after America and earth finally find out the Scam of all Scams, that, by watching prepper shows, homestead shows, cooking shows on you tube, that i had been reared on depression food 😂😂😂😂. 1 kinds of potatoes, fixed a lot of ways, 2 vegetables, green and yelliw ir orange and black eyed peas, lesu ear peas. Combination salad. Always, fruit cocktail for desert. Dad liked only cherry ir apple pie. Liked cream pies too. Kids do not like cream pues. Angel food cake. 10 egg whites. What did my mom do with egg yolks?...never cared to learn to cook. She had this huge oressure cooker. She always used for navy beans with a ham hock. Now, I do know why my sister and i bailed out of many different size kitchens. My dad career militarily. When the pressure round thing started to oscillate and steam coming out, I was gone.....to this day with these small pressure cookers and one pot's....my mom used for roasts, potatoes, vegetables. I have a crock pot that is rrom 80'S 😂. Used for dips and etc. Never, ever, would i go to work and leave it pkugged in to cook dinner no way, no how. So, I do not scratch cook. I open cans, now, since 2020. Have them of everything I like. Now, back ti Spam. It is suppise ti be very, vety salty. A show i watched rinsed the Spam slices real well. Then fried or cut up. Now there are about 5 varieties. My son dies nit want them. I will still rinse BBQ sauce of and use new bottle sauce...if i like. Those were mushrooms I believe. Why now make a pkg gravy or flour and milk from pan with mushroims. I bought canned evaporated milk because my mother always had it. I thought it could be used for milk substitute. When I used to bake, i used condendsed milk. In 80'S and 90'S everyone used jelliw pudding in cake mixes. They say now, it is in mix, but you still can use pudding for moistness . No one has done any videos of other Spam meat. Winder why. Knowing my dad ate it in depression and WWII ....WELL, ENOUGH SAID. I have cans of meat. 😊😊
I slice the Spam into 6 slices and pour a little maple syrup in a non-stick pan. Fry the Spam a little on both sides then pour a little more maple syrup on each slice and top with crushed pineapple. I cover this for a few minutes and keep frying on low heat for the pineapple flavor to get through.
Well that was spooky coincidental ! I had just fried spam and in the same skillet , no less . Them sat down and found this on my YT feed ! I fried mine with onion and bell peppers but I may try the " sauce " recipe . I do a lot of things with spam and it is a big part of my prepper supplies !
Thanks for sharing ... totally understood your cooking concepts here with the ingredients to give the final product .... A good product that suits your taste buds with SPAM.
Try browning small pieces of spam then make mac an cheese but add 2 slices of sharp cheddar stir in cooked an drained spam a little pepper Batchelor dinner
In the 1970s my mother would ground spam with boiled potatoes and fry them in corn tortillas to make tacos, top them with cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes. Salsa was optional, yummy..., !!!
I ALWAYS BUY IT .BUT I BUY THE LITE ONE CAUSE IT'S LESS SODIUM AND TASTE GOOD. N BTW I DON'T FRY IT WITH OIL❤I USE BUTTER. AND VERY LITTLE. IH AND ANOTHER THING I PUT A CAN WHEN I MAKE MACARONI SALAD.AND IT TASTE DELICIOUS
I went to Hawaii for the first time a couple of years ago, and of all the exciting things we did, none matched the excitement I felt when I walked into a McDonalds and saw Spam on their menu. I could move to Hawaii just for that reason alone.
Back in the 70 during a recession spam with a regular meal on our table. People look at it now and they’re pretty grossed out when you put that on your plate, but it was something that I grew up on and I thought it was pretty good stuff compared to some of the other stuff we had to eat back then but some of those things including hotdogs and beans hotdogs and fried potatoes and a whole lot of macaroni lots and alota casseroles of tuna, and hamburger mixed, very creatively and different stuff and with the way the economy is now in 2024. People scoff at what we are but we never went hungry I believe it won’t be long before spam becomes a regular on peoples tables again and you can actually look up 70s and 80s budget friendly meals that my generation considered pretty darn good. 😮
Really don't need that much oil to fry spam. It's greasy enough on its own, don't really need any oil. I season my cast iron w/bacon grease, but don't use any oil to fry the spam.
What a beautiful recipe I would love to have some of my late mother’s cornmeal breaded and fried spam again she always told me poor people have poor ways ❤
This looks soooooooo delicious 😋. There are so many ways you can prepare SPAM. I especially prefer throwing in some vegetables which makes it nutritious.👍💯
I was born in 85, i can remember spam and eggs. All i remember was home cooked food that tasted good. Now I’ve been cooking since i left home and my daughters grew up seeing their parent cooking. I think its time to cook up some spam.
I was reared on worcestershire sacr on meat. My dad always used the Au Gus. Med. Rare. My son likes well done. Hardly can eat unless he grills. Most guys can grill. Wonder of wonders.😊
Any flavor Alfredo Pasta Sauce, plus mushrooms plus butter, plus pepper, plus garlic, add fryed spam with most of the salt removed add onions if you like!
