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culinary macguyver

Wednesday, Dec 19. 2007  –  Category: Food

came home from work starving, cause my wife ditched me to join her coworkers at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. oh well. can’t blame her, i’d have done the same.

check out the fridge to see what i’ve got. not a whole lot. lots of half drunk beverages (thanks wifey), a bunch of cytomax (great for post-workout drinks - not so great for dinner), and uh… yeah. pretty bare.

fortunately, what i did manage to find was pretty huge: kimchee (slowly fermenting away). leftover steamed rice. eggs.

huge? yeah. huge cause then i remembered that can of spam i kept in the closet.

oh yeah. that’s right. spam. spam as in the mystery meat. spam as in the oft-ridiculed monty python stuff. spam as in the meat i’ve never actually ever eaten until 19 minutes ago.

there’s a korean place we go to in berkeley where i always order the kimchee spam fried rice, and i think to myself “damn, that can’t be that hard to make.”

turns out it isn’t. stir-fry the kimchee, toss in some soy sauce, kimchee, and rice. stir-fry more. stir-fry some more. throw on some sesame oil. stir-fry some more. set aside in a bowl. fry an egg sunny side-up. put egg on rice. eat.

woot! serve with an ice-cold Hite, and i’ve got my culinary macguyver korean restaurant comfort food. good stuff.

the only off-putting moment was when i opened up the spam. it smelled exactly like opening up cans of wet dog food. isis and char-siu even came running over and sat down next to me expectantly. their looks were communicating, “sweet. we don’t normally get two meals a day.”
sorry to disappoint, guys. but this canned mystery meat is mine. (it smells a lot better after some soy sauce, stir-fry, and a shot of bourbon (what?? like you’d smell spam and then eat it while sober??)