Synergy or Kedgeree?

Synergy is when the result is greater than the sum of the parts. Applied to food it is what cooking is about. You take plums, flour, sugar and butter and mix them together and get plum crumble, with the caramalised juice oozing out at the edges - synergy. Mix oil and parsnips and add some heat and you get something quite different - synergy.

Plum crumble

Mix hard boiled eggs (possibly the worst way of cooking an egg IMHO) with boiled rice and bits of smoked fish and you get kedgeree. In this case the result is somewhat less than the sum of the parts, IMHO. I would frankly prefer the fish on its own, with a little rice to the side, and give the hard boiled eggs to my wife.

Or am I missing something? Jamie Oliver manages to make Kedgeree look and sound quite tempting.  But then he has some additional ingredients and he is Jamie Oliver...

Kedgeree a la Jamie Oliver