I slept in on Saturday and then got up to make something for brunch. The old SPAM favourite: fried SPAM and egg, with baked beans, corn and rice.

I really should’ve gone to the shops earlier and grabbed some green beans and some tinned pineapple to make fried rice with. I’ve really been craving fried rice specifically with SPAM, pineapple, green beans, with lots of onion and garlic and the rice flavoured with tomato sauce and a little black pepper. I could’ve gone out and done a little shopping, but to be honest, I just couldn’t be bothered. So since there there were no green beans in the fridge and no tinned pineapple in pantry, I cooked up a batch of fried rice for my dinner featuring SPAM, mushrooms and corn, with lots of onion and garlic (no matter what, we always have onion and garlic!) and oyster sauce to flavour the rice. Exactly my kind of meal, bursting with savoury flavours and distinctive textures: springy salty cubes of SPAM with slightly browned crisp edges, squeaky rubbery mushrooms and juicy corn kernels that popped tantalisingly between my teeth.