Recipe of the week: 🍣The Surf & Turf Inside-out Connection Bowl🥩

‍‍‍Service & Connection

This week emphasizes relationship nourishment — not just physical nourishment.

🍣The Surf & Turf Inside-out Connection Bowl🥩

This dish is designed for residents in the M.D.O.C. to make during a Zoom visit with a loved one. By keeping things normal & building relationships through moments like these can help keep relationships strong. We need to be creative and embrace these new ways we can finally interact with loved ones inside the M.D.O.C. thanks to the new M.M.O.C. styled prison system that offers these opportunities to avoid getting institutionalized unlike days from the past.

🔥 This meal will have you dancing with joy (AND WHY IT MATTERS)

This creative little meal is a tasty treat that you can share with your loved one inside using all the same foods we use. It is going to surprise you for sure with its delicious taste. The best part is getting to share some time with your loved one using the global language we all know which is the food, and quality time shared with one another. Enjoy and keep checking out future M.E.A.L.S..

🥣 INGREDIENTS

• 1 pouch/can tuna

• 1–2 ramen packs OR 1 bag instant rice

• 3.5 oz summer sausage, chopped to preferred size

• 1 or 2 syrup packet or from a bottle of syrup use enough (for caramelizing)

• Pickles, chopped small and add more if you like the flavor (roughly 2–3 tbsp)

• I use Bacon/Cheddar block cheese, but we have Mozzarella & Cheddar which is then diced or shredded

• Olives (optional)

• 🧄Garlic powder

• GOYA Adobo seasoning (this is my go to seasoning it slamming!)

• Jalapeño & some light Mayo if you like these flavors (optional)

‍ DIRECTIONS

1. Cook Your Base

   • Rice: microwave and fluff.

   • Ramen: cook and drain, keeping it hot.

2. Caramelize the Sausage (The Magic Step ✨)

   • Chop summer sausage into small pieces.

   • Place in a microwave-safe bowl or a clean trash bag set inside another bowl.

   • Add 1 or 2 syrup packet (cover meat leisurely) + optional jalapeño slices.

   • Microwave 7–8 minutes, stopping every minute to stir & cover meat with glaze to carmalize.

   • When the syrup coats the sausage & builds a light crust, it’s ready.

   • 👉 This adds a sweet-savory flavor people don’t expect from prison cooking.

3. Build the Connection Bowl

   • Add hot rice/ramen (or both) to your mixing bowl.

   • Add the tuna, breaking it apart.

   • Add the caramelized sausage.

   • 🥒Mix in pickles, olives, and cheese.

   • Stir everything together while still hot.

4. Season It

   • Garlic powder, seasoning packet from soup,

   • GOYA Adobo

   • Mayo if you want it creamy

   • Stir until everything blends into a thick, hearty meal.

‍❤️ FINAL NOTE

This dish isn’t just food. It’s a reminder that your inside connection is still alive, even in hard times & places, and this is another great example of how we can learn keep strong & build our futures by enacting one small act of kindness at a time.