SPAM cookoff Sunday July 26th

Laconia Historical · 07-08-2009, 09:42 AM

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/spa...pformrules.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 · 07-08-2009, 11:35 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

hazelnut · 07-08-2009, 08:59 PM

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 · 07-10-2009, 09:07 AM

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 · 07-24-2009, 01:21 PM

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!”

07-08-2009, 09:42 AM	#1
Laconia Historical Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Laconia Posts: 38 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post	SPAM cookoff Sunday July 26th 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/spa...pformrules.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 Last edited by Laconia Historical; 07-08-2009 at 09:45 AM. Reason: add picture

07-08-2009, 11:35 AM	#2
Pricestavern Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Valencia, Spain (formerly Rattlesnake Isle) Posts: 388 Thanks: 125 Thanked 142 Times in 82 Posts	Eggs, Bacon, Spam, Sausage, and Spam.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

07-10-2009, 09:07 AM	#4
Laconia Historical Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Laconia Posts: 38 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post	we need SPAM sandwiches! 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!!

07-24-2009, 01:21 PM	#5
Chickie Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 367 Thanks: 0 Thanked 67 Times in 38 Posts	Let's Hear it for SPAM! 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!”

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07-08-2009, 08:59 PM	#3
hazelnut Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,348 Blog Entries: 3 Thanks: 508 Thanked 462 Times in 162 Posts	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!!!