
Lemon herb grits topped with a fried egg. Salad on the side. Washed down with some classic NYC Chock Full o’ Nuts.

Lemon herb grits topped with a fried egg. Salad on the side. Washed down with some classic NYC Chock Full o’ Nuts.
Spam and scrambled eggs over garlic rice for breakfast was always one of my favorite things about visiting the Philippines. Maybe it was the musubi, maybe it was just the need to use up the cans of Spam in the pantry; whatever it was, the boyfriend has been converted to the cause.
Here’s our lightened up version with thin cut, crispy Spam and spinach salad instead of fried rice.
Sometimes, I put things away in the refrigerator or freezer and forget about them. If I’m lucky I find them just before they go bad. Like the potatoes that were lounging in the bottom drawer of my “crisper” – not so crisp were they. Clearly, they called for quick action and lots of attention with a paring knife.

Start cooking the potatoes before adding the other ingredients to prevent the vegetables from burning.
So, we cubed them up and fried them with onions, leftover corned beef and cabbage. We topped the hash with a fried egg and homemade ketchup. Tossed a spinach salad on the side and – Bam! – brunch in about 20 minutes.