From: riburr@shentel.net   
      
   Made lunch today, the dish consisted of fried rice, seaweed and pickled   
   mushroom.  I don't know Japanese cooking, but the dish had a Japanese   
   feel to it.  Dried seaweed was fried with butter without being   
   rehydrated.  The rice was added to the same skillet and fried with the   
   seaweed, and allowed to cool to room temperature.  The mushrooms are   
   pickled sweet, and added cold to the rice.  This was my 2nd serving, so   
   the dish is a little oily in the picture; See:   
   http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=516644810&size=l   
      
   Almost a totally vegetarian dish (except for the butter), the seaweed   
   and pickled mushrooms combined to give a seafood flavor overall.  The   
   dried seaweed had a smoked fish flavor, and a chewy texture, but not   
   overly so.  The pickled mushrooms had an almost sushi texture, with a   
   sweet, tangy flavor.   
      
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