It was a rather poor harvest for me last year, as far as chanterelles go. Hoping I'll find more this year. I do have some dried, but your right, freshly picked ones are always better.
Did pick mushrooms earlier in life also. Always with my dad (and other folks often/group of friends/couple of dogs about/nice memories) and he was the one with the knowledge about 'wild' mushrooms. Not 100% watertight though
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. One afternoon, um/me 'reminiscing' now/about 20 years ago, we collected quite a bunch of birch boletes mostly and someone of the group picked a mushroom that had a quite trancey effect when one takes in the sucker.
Dad prepared the lot (p/m recipe with chantarelles/ingredients I've posted in this thread earlier, I think) and we, group of 9 or 10 peops, ate the dish on toast a little later.. and ja, all of us spaced out for at least half an hour.
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No idea what went wrong (well, for sure, my dad missed the mushroom that wasn't intented to be in the pan) but we all went on a nice trip collectively after we ate the dish. We all went silent at first and then we all laughed our socks off, doing/saying silly stuff for.. (?) half an hour.
MISS those afternoons. Genuine folks, nature, dogs around, hiking, food, love, philosophy, real stuff, etc..
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Um? Ate a homemade tomato soup and a wrap filled with stuff all totally healthy for dinner this evening.