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Congee days and ramen nights

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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.

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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No claypot chicken rice

No claypot chicken rice

Because our donabe (Japanese claypot) is too small to cook a meal for four, my chicken rice was cooked in a cast iron pan. Chinese sausage, mushrooms and bok choy …

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Claypot salmon and mushroom rice

Claypot salmon and mushroom rice

A one-pot meal that cooks in 20 minutes, the rice, mushrooms and salmon are cooked in a combination of shiitake soaking liquid, kombu and sukiyaki sauce.

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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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Cajun shrimp and mushroom spaghetti

Cajun shrimp and mushroom spaghetti

Creamy and spicy, cooking Cajun shrimp and mushroom spaghetti is made easier and faster by using frozen shelled and deveined shrimps.

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