Holiday traditions are all well and good, but a little realism was called for this year. There are two people in this house. Our friends are all celebrating with their families, and our relatives all live in different states. We're under no pressure to cook a lavish family meal nor to 'entertain' anyone but ourselves. We moved to NC in August, and ( Read more... )

 I am probably so late to the game and I apologise if this has been posted before...

I was shopping with my aunt at the weekend and we were just wandering around picking up random things for a girlie night in and I found this...


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This'll be my first time posting here (although I've been lurking for a while), because today I made something so artery-clogging delicious that I just have to share it ( Read more... )

It's canned meat and yet it's pretty tasty. And it even looks pretty good once it's fried up. No real recipes. For the 'sushi' and handroll, I used sushi rice tossed with seasoned rice wine vinegar. But take a look at what Spam can do!



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This meal is very fast, very filling, very trashy, very delicious! It is normally consumed when you’ve just gotten home from a 10 hour shift at work with no lunch break to speak of and you have no fresh food anywhere in the kitchen and you are so hungry and need food now!

You start by putting ½ cup of instant rice (the store brand of course) and ( Read more... )

I’m a huge, huge fan of advertising from the 50s and 60s. As I was working on moving all my saved images over to Flickr, it occurred to me how goddamn trashy some of these foods are!

Please enjoy!


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I love the Gmail spam folder's sense of humor! There is always some bizarre Spam recipe linked there and 9 times out of ten it is the epitome of trashiness and culinary horror. This recipe was particularly perfect because not only does it have the requisite can of cream soup but it also includes crushed potato chips. Heh. Wow. That's just...I ( Read more... )

Last night for dinner I made a grilled SPAM and American Cheese sammich, on potato bread.

And it was goooooooooooooooooooooood.

here's an excellent one

spam and syrup!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cut spam loaf into small maybe dime sized cubes
and "grill" in a skillet with a little butter

then put on a plate and drench it in pancake syrup (honey works too)

i dont ever eat this anymore but shit, when i was a poor kid growing up, we sure did. especially before payday.

yumk

;)

Liz