Last night I made the kids Hawaii's favorite snack: Spam Musubi. You can find it in any grocery store, gas station, deli, and most locally-owned fast-food places. Anyone who's grown up on the island should know how to whip up this snack. Jeff and I enjoy eating it every once in a while and he thought the kids would love it since it's basically Hawaii's version of a hot dog, but they absolutely gagged.
To make spam musubi, you need to cook about 3-4 cups of rice. Slice up spam (which is sold in a can in grocery stores) and marinade the sliced luncheon meat in a combination of soy sauce and brown sugar. Pan sear the meat until it's crispy on the edges.
Now comes the tricky part: Lay sheets of seaweed under a spam mold. Put enough rice inside the mold to fill half of it up, then put a slice of spam, then more rice to round it off on top. Release the mold and wrap the seaweed around the whole thing like a sandwich.
Max was absolutely disgusted by the seaweed wrap but he did say, "Well I don't like it. But it's much better than chicken!"
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