You Can't Have Too Much Of A Good Thing

Or Can You?

This toad lives under my oak tree. I swear he is always in the exact same spot.

I was so excited when I first spotted the chanterelle mushrooms growing in my backyard. I raved about them in my newsletter.

Treasure Found

Chanterelles peeking up from the leaf litter

I picked them and washed them and dehydrated them and cooked them and ate them and raved about them some more. Then after a bit of rain, I discovered a whole new batch to pick and clean and cook…you get the point. It's kind of tedious. After a few rounds of picking and cleaning, I saw the value of picking with discernment

Chanterelles can be a bit dirty as the rain splashes up and splatters sand in the false gills on their underside. so you have to really rinse them.

And rinse them.

I discovered if you pick them in an undisturbed area with a nice bed of leaves, they are much cleaner and you can just cut the root of and dust them a touch.

I picked some nice ones today and tore them apart like flower petals.

Then I dry sauted them and prepared an egg wash and bread crumbs.

Then I fried them in canola oil.

They were absolutely delicious!

They are even more fun to eat than they are to pick.