Eureka!

Eureka! We struck Golden Chanterelles!

Last weekend we made it out to our mushroom hunting spot and picked our first basket full of wild mushrooms for the year.

I stopped by my Chicken of the Woods log from last fall, and was cheerfully greeted by clusters of the bright orange and yellow fungus that really does live up to it’s name.

Although the chanterelles were not extremely plentiful, the ones we found were large and fresh.

It is a fine feeling, indeed to bring home a haul of mushrooms that you foraged yourself, and I can imagine no better place to spend time finding food than out in the woods. It’s way more fun than the grocery store, and relaxing to boot. Wild mushroom pizza, cream of chanterelle soup, mushroom scramble and many other delicious things are now on the menu in our house. It may seem like a simple thing to be so happy about, but I can’t help feeling like we’ve struck gold!