Yesterday, I went to the local A-COOP store, where I found these two mysterious mushrooms. The varieties not indicated on the labels. I later called the producer to ask her what they were. My son was right. They were tamogitake and numeri sugitake (Pholiota adiposa).
昨日は、地元のA-COOPに行ったのですが、そこでこんな奇妙はきのこを2種類見つけました。ラベルに品種が書いてありません。後で生産者に電話して、何なのか尋ねました。息子は合ってました。タモギタケとヌメリスギタケです。
I asked my son how he wanted to have these mushrooms. His request: takikomi gohan for tamogitake and clear soup for numeri sugitake.
息子にこのきのこをどう食べたいか尋ねると、リクエストは、タモギタケは炊き込みご飯、ヌメリスギタケは澄まし汁。
I made takikomi gohan in my usual way: first parboiling the mushroom with water, soy sauce, sake, and mirin for a few minutes, adding the liquid to the rice cooker pot, but NOT adding the mushroom.
炊き込みご飯は私の普段の作り方で作りました: きのこを水、しょう油、お酒、みりんで数分茹でて、液は炊飯器に入れますが、きのこは入れません。
We had kogomi (fiddleheads) for the first time in this season.
今シーズン、初めてこごみを食べました。
I didn't collect them, but I bought them...
採ったのではなく、買ったのです...。
After the rice is cooked, I placed some mushrooms on top of the rice.
ご飯が炊けてから、ご飯の上にきのこを少し載せました。
Clear soup:
澄まし汁:
This time, I added some wakame seaweed and beaten eggs.
今回は、ワカメと溶き卵を入れました。
Good to have an expert for mushroom at home. The mushroom rice looks really very nice.
ReplyDeleteFiddleheads - thanks for reminding me. The place for planting some ferns has aready been prepared but I have forgotten to order some.
I love fiddleheads but they are so expensive compared to other vegetables that they are almost a luxury!
ReplyDeleteKiki: At 200 yen per bag, they are steals. The producer (enoki producer) is an acquaintance, and she told me that her husband cultivates them as a hobby.
ReplyDeleteI highly recommend fiddleheads (ostrich fern) because they are not bitter at all. Warabi (bracken fern) shoots are bitter.
Stacy: In Japan, fiddleheads are not very expensive (this amount was sold for 220 yen), so I often buy them when I find them at the supermarket. (Local people here would laugh at me for doing so.)
Looks delicious! They sell fiddleheads here in California as well in spring time, but I always find them slightly bitter and have to blanch them first to get rid of the bitterness. I wonder if it's a different kind of fern?
ReplyDeleteYangsze: Slightly bitter? Maybe a slightly different kind...
ReplyDeleteHere in Japan, fiddleheads (kogomi) are one of the few sansai (lit. mountain vegetables) that require no akunuki (lit. harshness removal).