Honey-Rum Glazed Spam, with Rice and Green Beans

I know, I know, what your thing is "He's using Spam!? Is he crazy!?".... I would like to answer that but frankly, we all know the answer to that...
Well like I said, I'm the canned cook, and am using canned ingredients so why not canned meat?.

Anyway, I had a request from my one reader, my brother. Yes, that request was in fact Rum Glazed Spam. I had some left over Sailor Jerry's Spiced Rum left by someone in my freezer. and I did have one can of Spam, so why not give my one reader his wish, but I took it a step further.

I introduce Honey-Rum Glazed Spam.

So lets start:

Ingredients:

White Rice
Spam
Cinnamon
Cayenne
Salt
Honey
Sailor Jerry's Spiced Rum


How to:

First, I took the Sailor Jerry's and warmed it in a small shallow saucepan, I used every last drop of the Sailor, (I think I'll stop with Sailor Jerry's jokes now).

I used all of that little rum I have in that picture. After it started to steam, I added honey spoonful by spoonful until the glaze started to smell like honey. I added a dash or two of salt, and like 3 times as much cayenne. (Sorry, I forgot this picture, but it wasn't much to look at anyway.)

At this point, I started the rice to try and time it to finish with the spam. I also preheated the oven to 350. Then, I took them spam out of its can and I poked holes in it on all sides, hoping to have the glaze sneak in.

I didn't have a baking pan so I made one out of tin foil, which I would recommend anyway (you'll see in a sec).
I placed the Spam in the middle of the tin foil, and drizzle some of the warm glaze on top and along the sides (doesn't it look 5-star restaurant quality?)

I baked it for 3 minutes at a time (I set a timer), when ever the timer went off, I would drizzle more glaze and scoop some already in the tin foil basket on top of it. I did this a bunch of times, maybe like six or seven.
But on like the third I got the brilliant idea to close the tin foil completely.




On the last time I put almost all of the sauce on top, sprinkled on some cinnamon (very poorly I might add), and drizzled some of the glaze in tin foil on top. During this last bake session I put the sauce left in the pan on high to bring to a bubbly boil. Then I seared the bottom side of the spam in this bubbly glaze.


I made some green beans around this point too, canned ones.

I placed the rice and green beans on the plate, as well as some slices of the spam. And put some of the Glaze on my rice as well.


Regrets:

1) Cut Spam into slices first and lean them long ways in the tin foil.
2) Then sear both sides each slice in the glaze.
3) Fold tin foil closed from the beginning.

Taste results:

It was really good, but the taste of the glaze was lost with the inner slices (hence the first recommendation). But the glaze was awesome! it was sweet with a mild after taste of the rum, I think I'll use it for chicken and other things... even ham! However the lack of the glaze on most pieces brought it down a bunch. The two ends were unbelievable, but towards the middle I almost forgot that this spam was glazed.
I give it at best a 6.5 out of 10.

Worth Second Try!?

I would do this again, but I'm just as likely to just fry slices of spam and make sandwiches.
Next time I will need to see just how much the cutting and searing slices will improve it. That's something that I just don't know.

I think with the improvements it could become anywhere from a 7 out of 10 to a 7.5- out of ten. But the glaze was fantastic.