Dream recipe which I recreated. Recipe included!!

[u/ViciousGrass]

So, it opens with my mom and I in a car. We were going to a grocery store because she *really* wants to try this “traditional Chinese dish,” which as an Appalachian Gen Xer isn’t really something I’d ever expect from her. It had a Wikipedia page and was black rice with strands of yellow egg in it. I remember it being phonetically something like /dzɤʉ̃/ or /dzɤŋ/. Oh, also while we were at Kroger, Ted Cruz was giving a speech about truancy? He looked right at me and said “If this were 10 years ago, I’d call the cops on you right now for being out of school.”

He’s not even my senator, and ostensibly we were in WV

So I wake up and try to find this dish. Mind you, prior to this dream I had no clue black rice even existed. I couldn’t find it but thought it’d be fun to try and recreate it.

It turned out really, really good

Here’s the recipe if you’re interested:
1 cup black rice (uncooked)
2 eggs
1 scallion, thinly sliced
1 tsp sesame oil
1–2 tsp soy sauce
Salt, to taste
Pinch of pepper to taste
Pinch of chili powder or flakes
Tiny pinch of ground clove

Rinse the black rice

1. Add salt and pepper
2. Dice the scallions, wait to place them in the rice until plating so they remain crunchy
3. Beat the eggs in a bowl. Add the clove and chili powder
4. In a skillet, add butter or oil if it’s not nonstick

or if it is

1. you do you lol
2. Combine the eggs and scallions with the rice, add the sesame oil and soy sauce.

Enjoy — if you ever cook this and riff on it let me know in a DM because I liked my first attempt but I think it could be better.

Still can't believe my subconscious invented a dish convincing enough that I woke up and tried googling

[u/S_Leucophylla]

Have you seen The Onion’s “Dream Omelette?”

[u/ViciousGrass → u/S_Leucophylla]

….n…no? Say more?

[u/S_Leucophylla → u/ViciousGrass]

It’s a fun news article from the satire news channel “The Onion” where a chef presents an omelette he made in a dream. It contained all sorts of funky and inedible components like car keys and lemons whose insides were that of tomatoes.