Down Home Cooking

Take one can of Spam.

Open it up and slice it into slabs.

Cook it on a skillet or whatever you can find that gets warm and is relatively hygenic.

Get some rice, preferrably the sushi type, include the sushi liquid seasoning they put on rice.

Mold it into one block.

Put the slab of cooked Spam onto the rice. It will look like a big Spam sushi.

Wrap the block with dried seaweed.

Enjoy.

Its called Spam masubi.

If you can get fresh Ahi (tuna) here is another good one.

INGREDIENTS

1 and 1/4 pound fresh ahi, cubed into bite-sized pieces
1/4 cup yellow onion, minced
1/4 cup green onion, sliced
3 tbsp. limu kohu, chopped (a soft, reddish-brown variety of seaweed, prized for its succulent flavor.)
2 tsp. sesame oil
1 tsp. soy sauce
1 tbsp. Inamona (the ground innards from roasted kukui nuts)
pinch or two of dried red chili

All ingredients are optional [except the fish]. There are tons of various recipies for this dish.

Mix well and chill. Enjoy the Hawaiian raw fish.

Hawaiian Poke'. (pronounced Po-kay)

There are ones made from swordfish, octopus, etc etc as well.

Ingredients:

Shovel
Lava Rocks
Bannana leaves and stalks, lots of them.
One pig, preferrably dead and gutted and cleaned of hair etc.
Salt and Pepper if you have it.

Directions:

dig one big hole, big enough for your pig to lay in.

Fill hole generously with lava rocks. Start big fire in hole. Burn all day.

After rocks are nice and hot select a few smaller rocks and fill the inside of the pig with hot rocks. Make sure to get one in the throat of the pig as well.

You should still have many rocks in the hole.

Remove approximately half of the rocks from the hole leaving a layer or two of rocks in the hole. Cover with bannana leaves and stalks.

Wrap your pig generously with many bannana leaves. Put pig in hole covering again with bannana leaves and stalks.

Replace excess rocks around and on top of pig (in the hole).

Cover generously with bannana stalks and leaves.

Cover up with dirt. Cover pile of dirt with more bannana leaves. Lots of them.

Return in a few hours and remove pig from hole.

Enjoy.

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