Chanterelle picking redux
Since the Chanterelle picking was so good last Friday afternoon I decided to head out again before cold and frost end the mushroom season. I brought along my friend and colleague Claudia Howell. Claudia is an artist and holds a day job as a photography editor at The Oregonian. Claudia has a neat newish series of photographs called “gutter galaxies,” and gave Michelle and me a print from the series as a wedding present. Thank you again!
Our objective was to pick as many mushrooms as possible and not get horribly lost walking in the woods. These before and after pictures show the success of our first foray.
Needless to say we were stoked! And we kept finding more…
You can’t pick wild mushrooms without thinking about how you’re going to cook and eat them. At least I can’t! Claudia’s plan was to make a Chanterelle & filbert pÂté among other things while mine was to make a shallot, butter and chicken broth sauce with fusilli. Claudia’s stash weighed 8 lbs. after she thew out nearly a pound of overly soggy or fibrous mushrooms. Together we probably picked 20 lbs of Chanterelles! To find, harvest and cook your own wild food satisfies me to no end.
