And Now Something Different

 Several weeks ago we attended a luncheon that was to be a luau with food featured that would be served IF we were at a real Luau!  The food wasn’t very good🙁. The discussion afterwards was Hawaiian food, specially Spam!  Yes! Spam!   Growing up our mothers would prepare Spam in a variety of ways.  And the idea hatched!  Let’s have a Spam-or Not dinner!   Invite guests to bring a dish featuring spam.  You can imagine the looks we got!  Yes, some said I don’t eat that stuff—too much MSG.  Okay, bring a Not dish. 

The event happened!  And it was a blast!  My dish featured mashed potatoes with spam in potato cakes--I put Spam in part of the batter so I could also have a Not for those who were not partaking!  

 Another recipe I used was Spam pizza on flat bread--half Spam; half Not!  You can add anything you like for this pizza--instead of using pepperoni or other meats, I used spam!

Burnt Ends  one guest fixed these delicious bits!  Oh my!  Couldn’t tell this was Spam!  

Spam salad—made like tuna salad—very tasty!  Tiny tiny club house crackers—oh yes! 

These were awesome!  Looked like sushi, tasted like sushi!  It took lots of patience to build these gems.

Two of the NOT dishes were chicken pie and beef, potato tots—

 

There were two Mac and cheese spam

 dishes—each different

And delicious

And of course, spam baked like ham with pineapple!  

The evening was a success!  Each person brought a wine to accompany their dish. Couldn’t ask for a better dinner with friends.