Mmmmm....mmmm......
Oyster mushroom fried rice topped with oyster mushroom scallops and a poached egg with a balsamic glaze to top it all off! Yuummmmy!!! What more can you want!!
This was one of my first attempts ever at making fried rice. Can you believe it!!! After eating it out soo much and falling in love with it I decided it was time I took a stab at this.
Goes without saying, this one was Chinese inspired, comes together in 30 minutes at most and then Boom!! flavour!
It is important to make sure your mushrooms are clean and dry before you start. No one would wants to find dirt in their mushrooms.
Cleaning mushrooms is easy. You can either fill a colander with water, toss in the mushroom and rise a few times until the dirt is gone or you can wipe them or you can use a mushroom brush. Personally I like rise them off to start get the large particles off then gently wipe off any excess.
Either way be GENTLE. Don't want to ruin the mushrooms!!
Once the mushrooms are cleaned, its time to get cooking!!!
Mise en place!! This is a French culinary term meaning put everything in its place first. Believe me it will make you cooking that much more efficient, less prone to error or burning. Once I started practicing this my cooking has gotten that much better for it.
So:
Slice your mushrooms. Slice the stalks into oysters, chop up the caps to be added to the fried rice
Chop your onions, garlic peppers and green onions. Measure them out and set them in their own bowls and set aside
Measure out your oils, soy sauce, butter, broth powder and water
Once the ingredients are all ready. Its time to get cooking!!! in my case....
que the music and get cooking!!
Instead of regaling you with how delicious this recipe is or how much I loved it, I am going to regale you with history of the dish and maybe a tale from the culture of inspiration for each dish If I can find one. Since the goal is to learn about either other and the food we eat of course.
And so.... Fried Rice.
The earliest record of fried rice is in the Sui Dynasty(589–618 AD) in China. Thank you Wikipedia for that tidbit ;). Seems the dish came about as a way to use up leftovers due to Chinese taboos against wasting food. ( I can definitely get behind that!!!) Why would you throw away perfectly good food??? I digress
According to Encyclopedia Britannica the Sui dynasty was a short lived Chinese dynasty the united the country after years of fragmentation. It set the stage for artistic and cultural renaissance that peaked in the succeeding Tang Dynasty.
Most Chinese Fables, usually the older ones are short stories. In addition Many Chinese fables were note written down, they were shared orally as a way to pass on lessons and values of the culture to the younger generations. With that, some stories:
A long time ago in an old kingdom, there lived a rich and powerful man who was amazed and loved seagulls. Everyday he would spend his time looking over the sea near his house in awe, amazed by the beautiful birds he adored for hours.
One day, he found a wounded seagull on his veranda and was horrified. He took the bird in and ordered his doctors to tend to the bird. Luckily the bird was not gravely injured and recovered quickly. The man was jubilant at the recovery of the bird. He was s0 happy that he decided to entertain the bird. He had the best foods prepared; meats, fruits, pheasant, all kinds of deliciousness. But the bird did not eat no matter what the man did the bird would not eat. Three days later the bird dies of hunger.
You see the man thought he loved the bird, and in his blind love he tried to feed the bird foods it did not eat. Consequently the bird died. The fable is to teach that love at times is not real love. Instead it is disguised selfishness. The man was selfish in his "love" because he did not love the bird as it aught to be instead he thought only of himself and what he wanted and not what the bird wanted or needed. He simply though the seagull would like what he like. Which could not be any further from the truth.
" If you love someone, love them as they would like to be loved. Not as you thing they must be loved"
Oyster Mushroom Fried Rice. Topped with Mushroom Oysters and a poached egg with a balsamic reduction
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