75 years of...

Has it really been three quarters of a century that this awesome meat product has been in existence?

There's a ton of new Spam flavors available because of this special occasion...

Oakland Bay Bridge and back to the City...plus SPAM!

Finally - It's the LAST SF Day 3 post! This was way back during the first weekend of October.

To recap SF Day 3 - We went to the SoMa and saw street signs named after Philippine revolutionaries and saw the 8 story high Lapu Lapu and Filipino American history mural at the Dimasalang House, ate at Jollibee, saw some cool roadside oddities ("Berkeley Big People" statues and the "Berkeley Fish House", had awesome beignets, decadent chocolate espresso twinkies, funky flavored ice cream and drove up a steepa$$ hill so we could relax at a park.

It was time to head back to Thane's place in the city...I tried to get another shot of the "Berkeley Big People" statue and this is what I got...

Well, you can kind of see it if you squint!

Heading back on the uppder deck of the Oakland Bay Bridge...

They're building another bridge right next to it. YOu cansee some of the equipment in the corner.

Thank goodness there was no suicidal jumper that day!

Back to the city near Thane's place in the South Beach area...

So tired!

I love Thane's place. It's close to everything, the Bridge, the Muni, the Embarcadero, AT&T Park, the Ferry Building...

Since our dinner plans were kind of shot (cousin sick and former student coming back to SF late), we didn't feel like going out again for dinner. We had a late flight out and just wanted to relax at Thane's. TC played Beatles Rock Band with Thane while Bert  occupied himself online. I scrounged around Thane's cupboards and came up with this gourmet quality  delectable dish standard desperation dinner that most Filipinos would like, FRIED SPAM. That's one can between the four of us (not enough in my opinion!). Just a splash of soy sauce on that low sodium spam kind of negates the low sodium eh?

I cooked some white rice and heated up the only vegetables Thane had, frozen mixed. There you go, a complete meal.

Dessert was leftover "It's It Ice Cream Sandwiches" - I had the mint.

On a different note, Darlene sent me an email about the John Hughes tribute at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma. Hot Fudge also sent Bert a message on his FB wall about the same event. Every Wednesday this month, they will play a different John Holmes Hughes movie. Turns out tonight was "16 Candles"!

Currently listening to M83's homage to vintage 80's music: "Saturdays=Youth

I read in one of my John Hughes' tribute books that Anthony Gonzalez (M83 frontman) used vintage synthesizers and instruments from the 80's for this album. Although this came out in 2008, it sounds like it could have come from 1988! There is also a red headed girl in this video (shades of Molly Ringwald maybe?).

Rave reviews of this album:
Pitchfork
Drowned in Sounds' 50 Albums of 2008
Urban Outfitters blog - Best Music of 2008
and Pop Matters

Pork Tacos & Bacon SPAM

Man we're going to be eating this for days...not that I'm complaining!

A few days ago I threw a pork butt into the crock pot, threw in a couple of chopped onions, a few peeled and chopped carrots, and dumped a couple of cans of diced green chilies, two small cans of chipotle peppers with adobo sauce, as well as lemon juice, black pepper and chili powder. A lot of chili powder. I just eyeballed the ingredients. Ten hours later the meat was falling off the bone. The house smelled good too.

I was inspired by our secretary's pozole that she shared with us the day after Halloween. That soup tasted so good with the sliced radish, chopped onions and shredded cabbage. I figured these fixings would also taste good with tacos (along with sour cream and cilantro). We had no corn tortillas at the time, just flour. It was still just as good. Bert used tostada shells instead of flour tortillas. The sour cream also helped cool down the heat. Too bad we were missing lime slices.

Do you like our placemats? Mine has the flags of the world. TC's had the United States map and their capitals. Bert's placement is the world map.  They are laminated and easy to clean. Fk cloth placemats where the food gets all stuck and ground in and then you have to wash it. These placemats (and a few other edumacational ones) were bought for TC's benefit but we still like to use them and rotate them. U.S. Presidents anyone? Musical instruments?

TC didn't want the pork tacos. Instead, she had another pork "entree". I diced up some bacon Spam and sauteed it with onions and cabbage along with a few sprinkles of soy sauce. Mmm, quick and easy dinner.

This was bought at Marukai Market. I got this can along with the "Hot and Spicy" variety. They also had Turkey flavor but I've tried it before and it's pretty gross. The bacon Spam on the other hand was pretty damn good.

I'd get this again! I'd put this in a taco! Ha ha, I just realized that the Spam photo was taken while it lay on top of my jeans in the car on our way home from Marukai!

It's now a few days later after I made this pork...even after having it for lunch (with rice) and giving a full plasticware container to my neighbor, we still have a lot of meat! I may just end up freezing it. And the spiciness of the chipotle peppers was pretty strong. I think I'll just use one can next time, but I liked how nice and red the sauce was when I opened the crock pot lid. Let's put it this way...Ring of Fire.  (cue the song, "Hurt So Good" or "Master and Servant")

Here is the post that inspired me to do this crock pot pork dish:
Chili Sauced Pulled Pork Tacos by Vicki from the blog A Work in Progress!

I also liked this other post she did:
BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches.

Here's a few more pork recipe posts. These are courtesy my foodblogger friend Joelen in Chicago whom we had the pleasure to visit last year:

Pork Barbacoa. I like how this one involves a crockpot! And a can of Coke!
Shredded BBQ Pork Sandwiches (ooh, another sandiwich recipe and here comes the crockpot again!)
and lastly, Mexican Pulled Pork Carnitas

Sorry Wilbur and Babe, but we loves eatin' ya!