Here's something I like to do: Watch an old movie and enjoy some creative cooking. Here's tonight's offering; a little recipe for you to try out! And a great romantic drama (with definite comedic overtones! Cause I only like happy films) from 2000.
Ricey-Spam-a-lot
Tonight I was lazily contemplating what to make for dinner, and there wasn't a whole lot of choice. So I looked in the pantry, and I saw a bag of rice, and a can of Spam, and I thought, yeah, I can work with this.
So I measured my coffee mug of rice and two coffee mugs of water into the pot, and then I chopped the Spam up into chunks, and tossed them into the rice soup, set it to boil, and when it did, I turned it down low to simmer, covered it, set the timer for 20 minutes, and walked away to watch an old movie -- Bounce, with Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Bounce is a romantic comedy from 2000 featuring Affleck as an ad exec who lands a big account with an airline, and in the interest of getting lucky, lets another guy have his ticket home. What happens next changes his life, for the worse, then for the best. Paltrow plays the woman who's husband took the plane ticket from Affleck.
A half-hour in, my rice was nearly done. I unwrapped three classic squares of cheese and laid them on the rice, then went away for a few minutes while they melted. At that point, I fluffed up the cheesy rice mixture, added butter, sprinkled on some garlic and salt, and called in the troops -- who ate it all up.
I got some, and it was good! So was the movie. So give it a try. What's not to like? Rice. Spam. Cheese. Yum.
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