I’m sure my family still haven’t forgiven me.
In fact, I can honestly say I have only ever cooked it the once, as an experiment, and I did something awful with mashed potatoes with Spam mashed up in it, like a Spam corned beef and hash. Spam is not something that regularly appears on our plates. Spam, you ask? Why Spam of all things?! Ok, I’m not going to lie. May 8th – 14th 2016 is National Sandwich Week in Britain – “a week-long celebration of the greatest food to go and quite possibly the most iconic British culinary invention, the Sandwich.” To find out more about this celebration visit Our contribution to this national celebration? A fried egg picnic spamwich. So, my eldest set the blanket out and assumed the position of basking in the sun while I prepared our lunch. We also saw a few great skuas(bonxies), arctic terns(tirricks) and one single lonely seal poked its head out of the sea to have a look at what we were up to. Their darting ways are quite amusing, like they fear getting their feet wet. I love watching these birds flit along the water edge searching for food underneath rocks and seaweed. The only occupants on this large stretch of sand when we arrived was a handful of turnstones. Packing some simple provisions – my Mariner’s Compass handmade quilt (our family picnic blanket and the first quilt I ever sewed together) a gas camping stove, a cast iron pan, an onion, a tin of spam, some sauce, fizzy juice, chocolate and some sun-dried tomato and Parmesan bread rolls I’d made the day before, we hit the sand and the sun. So, on this gorgeous beautiful Monday when he would normally have been at school, I convinced him to get out of bed (how can teenage boys sleep for so long?!) and come along with me for a beach picnic. S5 and S6 are done in the town school, a half hour drive from here. Our rural high school only goes up to Secondary 4. My eldest son has finished all his exams for this year, meaning he’s got a few weeks off before he starts high school at a different school. Some outdoor adventuring was needing to be had. It rarely gets that hot here in Shetland even in the middle of the summer, let alone the beginning of May. In reality, the car temperature thermometer read 22 C. 16 degrees C, the BBC weather app was saying, with full sun the entire day. The fork is used the way we (in the West) use a knife to push the food onto the spoon.Good weather was predicted for yesterday. In Thailand, a spoon is used to eat dishes without noodles. a perfect, cooling side dish to go with this recipe is my Easy Thai Style Cucumber Salad.įUN FACT!: In the photo above you can see a spoon and fork with the dish. Over the years I started increasing the heat level on the kid's portion and now I no longer need separate batches. One for them (mild) and one for my husband and me (hot). I have been making this dish since my boys were little. The good news is that you can adjust the heat as much as you like to accommodate your own taste. I always added the crispy fried egg because, well.you know, EGGS! The authentic dish in Thailand is served "burn-your-face-off" hot! Although I have toned down the spice in this recipe, most would still consider it quite hot. You could choose to have it with or without a fried egg.
This was one of my favourite roadside dishes (Gai Pad Krapow).
In the early 90s I spent almost a year living and working in Bangkok Thailand.
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