You know I'm neither. Yet I suspect, given the area, it is not done. Mushrooms in swamp areas tend to be poisonous. It's hard enough to pick the good mushrooms without swamp waters and gasses.
Now creatively? I don't see any problems. Being creative is how both started.
@DeWayfarer I don’t mean wild mushrooms, I know better than that. We do eat mushrooms, I just wasn’t sure about this particular dish. It’s the kind of question I used to be able to ask my mom. 🥺
I have never had dirty rice with mushrooms, but I think some people replace the meat with mushrooms for a vegetarian version. I see no reason you couldn't use mushrooms along with meat--it would be good any way you cook it.
The rice is dirty, the mushrooms are dirty, seems like it would fit, though I don't know of mushrooms in those recipes (of course I'm not Creoles (or Cajuns) neither
I haven’t made "dirty rice" from scratch in a long time. My grandmother used to put everything in, including ground beef, andouille sausage, even shrimp sometimes. But I couldn’t remember about mushrooms. Creole style is more tomato-based, while Cajuns tend use more chopped peppers.
