Joyce Melton

This is a big undertaking, like for a charity picnic breakfast, but it makes a memorable feast. You need a lot of cooks and helpers.

Fry several skillets of sliced spam until nicely browned. Save the grease. (For those who don't know, the Spam I am talking about is a brand of canned luncheon meat made of chopped and molded cured pork.)

In one of the skillets add enough grease (or veggie oil if you chicken out :)) to fry up diced potatoes, nice and golden. Use enough grease or oil to almost cover the potatoes and after you put them in, don't stir or turn them until they are nearly done. Take the potatoes out and put them in a bowl lined with papertowels to soak up excess grease.

In another skillet, with just a little grease, fry some sliced onions until they begin to get tender, (save a few of these grilled onions to add to the scrambled eggs), add diced potatoes. Before the potatoes are done, add sliced green and red bell peppers. You can stir this one as needed. It won't be as greasy and the onions would stick to the paper towels so don't use that trick when you serve them.

In a big bowl, beat some eggs with a little added water for fluffiness. Make some skillets of scrambled eggs. Add diced spam, grilled onions, or diced pepppers as you prefer. Make two or three versions of these scrambled eggs, someone is going to find a favorite.

Since everything is cooked in spam grease, don't touch the salt shaker.

You can use some of the grease to make gravy if you are feeding lumberjacks or fishermen. If you've fried some of the spam really thin, you can cut it into one inch pieces and make creamed spam on biscuits (or some other bread, toasted English muffins are good). A few people will put this concoction on their eggs for a real heartstopping breakfast entree. Ignore them.

Serve with fresh hot biscuits, butter, homemade jams, sliced tomatoes, orange juice, milk, coffee, hot tea or if you have enough Southerners, Coca Cola.

People may talk about this feed for years, which they probably wouldn't if you used ham or sausage. :) When everyone is too stuffed to get away, ask for donations for your charity.