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RWD
`Olu`olu
USA
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 Posted - 04/03/2012 : 06:05:46 AM
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This is what we baked a few nights ago.
After baking, the brown sugar carmelized over the pineapple and spam.
I shouldn't be eating this kind of food. I was weak :)
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chunky monkey
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 04/03/2012 : 07:49:56 AM
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| A spectacular indulgence. I liked spam way before I ever went to Hawaii. Why not? "Spam is pork and pork-shoulder". At least that's what they tell me. Way to go Robert. I needed another bad habit. |
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hwnmusiclives
`Olu`olu
USA
580 Posts |
Posted - 04/03/2012 : 10:00:45 AM
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Yeah. I am definitely trying this. Until then, I will look at this picture.
(I hope that Admin doesn't go crazy with the spam filter on this site.)
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ypochris
Lokahi
USA
398 Posts |
Posted - 04/04/2012 : 04:23:46 AM
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Try that with pork loin instead- much tastier, in my opinion, and much better for you, too.
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Trev
Lokahi
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/04/2012 : 10:11:42 PM
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'Much better for you' is kind of relative. High fat meat covered in loads of sugar is hardly a health food!
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sirduke58
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 04/04/2012 : 10:51:31 PM
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I have the butcher slice the Farmer John Smoked ham into 1/2 thick steaks then baked it with crushed pineapple & brown sugar. The crushed pineapple sops up the ham drippings & brown sugar much better than pineapple slices or chunks. Besides Spam it also works great with Armour Luncheon Meat.........What has become popular lately in Hawaii is slabbing on just Guava Jelly & baking any of the above meats.....All ono |
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RWD
`Olu`olu
USA
850 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2012 : 03:05:33 AM
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I was going to suggest that the spam be twice as thick as the picture.
And Trev, there is no way this is a healthy meal, but as in the cereal commercials...it could be part of a nutritionally complete meal. And, how to make it complete? No one knows for sure.
Also, 1/2 cup Guava jam (or current jam) and an equal measure of mustard makes a good slow cook marinade for sweet/sour mini-links. Yet another staple of the discriminating diner.
Everything in moderation. |
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Edited by - RWD on 04/05/2012 03:09:59 AM |
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ypochris
Lokahi
USA
398 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2012 : 07:03:51 AM
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Originally posted by Trev
'Much better for you' is kind of relative. High fat meat covered in loads of sugar is hardly a health food!
Pork loin is actually low fat, and can be made virtually fat free by trimming it. Which is why I suggested using it. Spam is scary stuff to this pig hunter.
Sugar- well, I've never thought sugar was bad for you, unless you are overweight or diabetic. Perhaps that is only because we used to grow so much of it. Or perhaps it is justifying my sugar addiction. But my somewhat crazy, only raw food eating, health nut friend pretty much lives on cane juice he squeezes, and he has more energy and less health problems than anyone I know.
My other thought, immediately after my last post, was that a nice, fresh white pineapple is better than the canned stuff. But not everyone is lucky enough to have that choice.
The bottom line is, pork, pineapple, and sugar- how can you go wrong, whatever the form?
(P.S. Gotta try that guava jam thing- sounds ono!) |
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Admin
Pupule
USA
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Posted - 04/05/2012 : 08:35:36 AM
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Originally posted by ypochris
Sugar- well, I've never thought sugar was bad for you, unless you are overweight or diabetic. Perhaps that is only because we used to grow so much of it. Or perhaps it is justifying my sugar addiction.
My thinking has been that sugar in moderation should be okay... especially in fruits or eating honey or maple syrup.
After watching the 60 Minutes story Is sugar toxic?, I wonder how reducing sugar might lower my cholesterol. |
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 04/05/2012 : 08:48:43 AM
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| Spam is made from leftover ham trimmings. Hormel and Armour cut hams to fit into the flatpick shaped cans, and what's left over is pressed and turned into Spam. Because the ends of the ham (made from pork loin, btw) are fatty, so is Spam. I know this as an ex-Minnesotan - Hormel is in Alexandrea, MN, south of the Twin Cities. I toured the factory with my class at Bloomington High School, those many years ago. |
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TerryLiberty
Lokahi
USA
207 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2012 : 09:16:47 AM
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As Bob says above:
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Everything in moderation
We've all heard that diabetes is a huge health issue in the world, particularly in the U.S. It is sad to see our brothers and sisters taken by this scourge, knowing that some of it can be prevented or mitigated by choices in eating. I'm no health nut myself and thought the spam dish above looked pretty tasty (meat, fruit and dessert in one serving!). I guess we all have to decide how much is too much.
Would somebody pass the chicken adobo?
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Terry
Olympia, WA
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 04/05/2012 : 09:29:24 AM
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| All things in moderation. Drink plenty water. Eat high fiber foods (remember when fiber was "roughage" and before that "bulk"?). Eat plenty veggies, fruits li'dat. Then once in a while you can splurge. You can't play guitar without wearing out the strings. |
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 04/05/2012 : 09:30:27 AM
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| Chicken adobo, pork adobo, pancit canton, ay 'sus! |
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ypochris
Lokahi
USA
398 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2012 : 2:16:03 PM
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Originally posted by Admin
My thinking has been that sugar in moderation should be okay... especially in fruits or eating honey or maple syrup.
After watching the 60 Minutes story Is sugar toxic?, I wonder how reducing sugar might lower my cholesterol.
The mechanisms affecting cholesterol levels in your body are poorly understood, particularly by the general public. Your body actually produces huge amounts of cholesterol; something like ten times the amount you ingest through food choices. In 90% of people, if you eat more cholesterol, your body responds by simply producing less, so the amount you eat has no effect on the levels in your blood.
Of course, there are the other 10%, whose bodies, for whatever reason, produce just as much even when they eat large amounts. For that 10%, the amount you consume can have a large effect on your health.
Even in those whose bodies adjust to account for their cholesterol consumption, the body can produce too much regardless of how little you consume. So having high cholesterol doesn't necessarily mean that eating more will be a problem.
How do we know if we are in the 10%? If you have high cholesterol, change your diet, and the level drops, then you are one.
One solution, of course, is just to take a statin drug and not worry about it.
An interesting side note is that the epidemiologist who first studied the cholesterol/heart disease link is a family friend. When he was a child, his mother made him eat two eggs for breakfast every day, although he absolutely hated eggs. So he devoted himself to proving that eggs are bad for you. Finally, with the cholesterol link, he vindicted himself- to some extent. Eggs are bad for some people, but not most. And the science behind that conclusion may have reflected just a little bit of bias...
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