Spicy Spicy Spam Musubi

Since this blog is all about trying new things I thought I would go out of my little realm of knowledge I have about Hawaiian food and try making Spam Musubi. But of course I was only motivated to do this because I was lucky enough to acquire this:









If you hate Spam I feel sorry for you. Yes, it's a mystery meat but it's so tasty! Especially Hot & Spicy Spam. I found mine in a Japanese grocery and if you do happen to find it buy the whole box! Hey Spam lasts forever, yummy...

Making Spam Musubi turned out to be a great idea because I found a sushi mold that I bought at a 99 cents store awhile ago but never used it. It actually worked really well and my musubi came out nice and cute.

1) I cooked short grain Japanese rice (or sushi rice) but I didn't add anything to the rice. I found some recipes that added Mirin or Rice vinegar, but since the Spam has such a strong flavoring I thought it would blend well with plain rice.

2) While the rice is cooking I sliced up the Spam and pan fried until slightly brown.

2) After letting the rice cool a little I started putting rice in the bottom of the mold. I pressed very hard to make sure the rice was sticking together. After I made a bottom layer of rice I placed the slices of Spam. I then covered the Spam with rice and got the cover of the sushi mold and pressed very firmly. If I did not press firmly enough the musubi would fall apart so it took me a few tries.















4) I then took store bought nori which I cut up into strips that matched the length of my rice rolls and proceeded to wrap the rice rolls with nori









5) And then I ate, I ate a lot of those little musubis.