Chanterelles

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My kids foraged some chanterelles this week and they brought them over tonight. We made beef stroganoff with the freshly picked Chanterelles! It was my first time eating wild Chanterelles!
 

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My experience with chanterelle mushrooms only occurred once.

My neighbor hit 80 years old while I lived next door. His wife had lived in the town all of her life. They made regular camping trips to Moyie Springs, near the ID/MT border and always seemed to return with chanterelles.

Morels seemed easy for me to identify. I have just looked at some pictures of false morels and I am still reasonably confident in saying this. When they showed up with some woodchips that I used to cover periphery paths in the community garden patch I had once — I was delighted. They seemed to appreciate secondary pine forest growing near where I used to live near Pend Oreille Lake.

Beef Stroganoff was probably a perfect use for the chanterelles!

Steve
 

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I consider successfully identifying and harvesting mushrooms to be magic.
I am no mushroom wizard and I am content to let the grocery store tell me which ones I can eat.
This mushroom dish looks fantastic. I wish I knew how to tell the chanterelles from the rest. I'm afraid I would make a lethal error. 🍄
 

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This mushroom dish looks fantastic. I wish I knew how to tell the chanterelles from the rest. I'm afraid I would make a lethal error. 🍄
Chanterelles are one of the easiest mushrooms to identify. I only know how to positively identify chanterelles and oyster mushrooms so far.
 
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