This ultimate one-dish meal, a fabulous mosaic of salmon, rice, and minced mushrooms, is the pinnacle of Russian cuisine, perhaps best described by the court secretary in Chekhov's "The Siren": "The kulebyaka should be appetizing, shameless in its nakedness, a temptation to sin."
Layers: Pastry, breadcrumbs, rice/mushroom mixture, salmon, hardboiled eggs, rice/mushroom mixture
And then pastry
It was fabulous.
