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Congee days and ramen nights

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  • Recipes
    • Appetizers
    • Salads
    • Soups
    • Main courses
    • Side dishes
    • Sweets
    • Snacks
    • Beverages
  • Cooking tips
    • Kitchen how-tos
    • Cooking ingredients
    • Kitchen tools
  • Food stories
  • Umami Art Club

Mushrooms

Mushrooms are fungi. We know them mostly as spongy things with stems and caps with gills underneath. Not all mushrooms look that way but most edible mushrooms do have that appearance. Not all mushrooms are edible. Some are poisonous while some can have mind-altering effects.

Edible mushrooms are neither meat nor vegetable but, in cooking, they can be treated as either. For many vegetarians, mushrooms are substituted for meat to add bulk, texture and flavor to vegetables.

Claypot rice with shimps and dumplings

Claypot rice with shimps and dumplings

Soaked rice is cooked in broth, topped with green beans and mushrooms tossed with black beans and chili sauces, store-bought vegetable dumplings and whole shrimps.

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Fish and mushroom torta garnished with toasted sesame seeds

Fish and mushroom torta

Filipino torta is almost always a ground pork, potatoes and egg mixture. In this recipe, flaked leftover fish is mixed with shiitake, carrot, corn and peas.

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Homemade Acharang kabute (pickled mushrooms)

Acharang kabute (pickled mushrooms)

Oyster mushrooms, carrot, bell pepper, ginger, garlic and onion are pickled in a mixture of vinegar, sugar and salt to make a contemporary variant of Filipino achara.

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Congee with crispy mushrooms

Congee with crispy mushrooms

Battered oyster mushrooms are fried to a crisp and dropped into a hot bowl of congee for an invigorating breakfast. A sprinkle of aonori and spicy furikake adds both …

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Cream of mushroom soup

Cream of mushroom soup

Opening a can is easy and convenient, but once you’ve tried real cream of mushroom soup, it’s hard to go back to canned.

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Cheese and mushroom omelette

Cheese and mushroom omelette

In Episode 11 of Season 14 of The Big Bang Theory, Raj cooked an omelette for his new love interest. The secret, he said, was beating the egg whites separately to create …

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15-minute Mushroom and Vegetable Stir Fry

15-minute mushroom and vegetable stir fry

Thinly sliced shiitake, chayote, carrot, bok choy tips and egg are stir fried and seasoned with three soy sauces. Served with rice, this meatless dish makes a complete …

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