SPAM cookoff Sunday July 26th

[Laconia Historical]

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Do you have what it takes to be crowned the King or Queen of SPAM? Can you create a culinary masterpiece that features the “miracle meat in a can?” Then join us for our first SPAM-boree Cookoff!

Deadline to enter: July 20, 2009
Date: Sunday July 26
Place: Weirs Beach Community Center, Route 11B
Time: 12:30 judging, 1:00-2:00 open to public
Cost to Enter: $10 entry fee (includes 6 tastings of other's creations).
Cost to Taste-Test: $5 for six tastings

To be crowned Laconia’s first King or Queen of SPAM submit an entry that uses no more than 10 ingredients (spices do not count) with one of the ingredients being a SPAM product. Three local judges will vote for First Place and Runner-Up recipes. A third recipe winner will be chosen by the public. All winners will receive gift baskets of prizes from the Hormel company as well as Laconia Eyecare Associates, The North End Restaurant, and A Little Confection.

For rules and to sign up go to http://www.laconiahistorical.org/spamsignupformrules.htm

Jennifer Carroll-Plante
Executive Director
Laconia Historical and Museum Society
PO Box 1126
Laconia, NH 03247
603.527-1278
Fax- 527-1277
lhmslpl@metrocast.net
www.laconiahistorical.org

[Pricestavern]

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[hazelnut]

A VERY underrated meat "type" product thingy.

Actually my friend Tom makes a ridiculously good gourmet, swear to god, gourmet Spam Sandwich. I know it is hard to believe and I won't share the recipe here just in case he enters but it is true. Every fall when we have "Man Camp" to shut down the Island Camp we have around 10 guys and everyone waits for Saturday lunch when we all get Tom's gourmet Spam Sandwiches!!!

[Laconia Historical]

Okay hazelnut.... now you need to make sure that Tom who "makes a ridiculously good gourmet, swear to god, gourmet Spam Sandwich" enters my contest!!!

DEADLINE JULY 20th!!

[Chickie]

My parents were married in the midst of the great depression and consequently had to make do with little - especially when my father’s work hours were cut and he earned less than $10.00 week. Now known as the greatest generation, they were the greatest recyclers, as well. My mother learned early how to turn ordinary, inexpensive foods into gourmet dishes (or so we thought at the time). This training and frugality carried over into the years following the depression and Spam was a part of it. Anything deemed edible was put to use and good old Spam took an honored place on the dinner tables of countless families. Mom made a brown sugar glaze, much the same as is used on the Easter ham, and baked it in the oven. It was a staple and kept the wolves away from the doors of many homes.

As the old Stephen Foster song goes, “Hard times, hard times come again no more!”