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On the way home today stopped by my local easy zipper spot and found chantrelle heaven! Quick couple pounds in the bag and it's homemade chantrelle, fresh spinach and bacon pizza for dinner.   
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Gooose, The good news is the chanterelles are out; the bad news is we've moved 75 miles away from our traditional mushroom hunting grounds...I've got to start looking all over again. Like a bear that's been darted and transported to a distant release site, I'm not sure which way to head into the woods. We're in Lacey, now, and the woods around here are coming down faster than you can say D.R. Horton, or Soundbuilt. I suppose there might be some chanterelles in Capitol Forest, or maybe in the foothills east of Yelm, Rainier, or Tenino. I haven't had time to learn the access routes, yet. Anyway, it's good to see your mushroom reports again.
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Sounds like a fun adventure. Goose, if you ever put on a how to "clinic" I'll supply the liquid refreshments (and squid jigs)!
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Joker that might be feasible. Several of us are looking at creating fund raising functions for our CCA chapters. It would be really easy to have a Labor Day tilla gathering here on the Canal that centered around fishing silvers in the bay and the Quil river plus some crabbing and clam/oyster harvest. Some may even do a road chicken hunt locally.  And an organized expedition one afternoon for a mushroom hunt with several of us providing educational expertise.  I wonder how Chantrelles would be deep fried in peanut oil? 
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Great recipe for chantrelles!
1/2 pd buckwheat Soba noodles
2 cups chopped chantrelles
1/3 cup minced garlic
1 cup chopped parsley
1/3 cup Olive oil
1 tblspn butter
coarse ground black pepper
sea salt
1/2 cup shredded Romano cheese
Cook the noodles
Heat the oil on med hi and add garlic
Cook garlic til soft but not browned
Add parsley and cook for two minutes tossing constantly
add chantrelles and cook for five minutes tossing constantly
add a bit of water if neccesary to finish cooking
toss noodles in and toss for two minutes
serve with shredded cheese plus pepper and salt as needed
The oil will be infused with the flavours of chantrelles, garlic and parsely.
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Sounds like a plan to me!! Unfirtunately, right now, Ihave no boat. Guess I need to become a boat whore  On way way home from Forks the other day I saw a sign stating they were buying mushrooms. Do you know if you can legally harvest mushrooms and sell them? Regardless, since I love to cook, I'd love to learn more about getting out after my own shrooooms.
PM me with any specific details.
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Goose that recipe sounds awesome...th ewife is going to freak out! Thanks
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Hey Goose, picked some chantrelles up in your neck of the woods thursday. also found some matzutake and lobsters. shaping up to be a good year. still havent found them damn black one though
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After 2 years of not producing my black chantrelle patch is looking good!
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I know that this info might be to much to ask for but I have always wanted to go picking but have never known what to look for? Any help would be great. Maybe what type of trees to look for? just something to get me started. Thanks
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lawdog for Chantrelles it is is simply a matter of getting out in to the hills and looking for them in stands of Douglas Fir. Stay below elevations of 4,000 feet as then you are in a Mountain Hemlock/Pacific Silver Fir ecosystem and the shrooms will be different. The several books shown at the head of this forum will help you out. Just stay where there are Doug Fir and you'll find them....simple method for exploration is to drive the logging roads and just do a quick exploration of sites along the road....if you don't find them in 15 minutes move on to the next site. When driving the logging roads look for a glimpse of orange in the mossy road banks. After you find your first patch or two you'll know what to look for. BTW I do find them in low elevations in areas that were skidder logged and in good numbers...it's simply a matter of looking for them.
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Junkie we enjoyed the same recipe with mostly black chantrelles tonite....they are pretty close to truffles in intensity of mushroom taste. My eyesite is so bad that I have to crawl on my knees to spot the black chantrelles.
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I could probably volunteer some tours of the Hamma Hamma watershed for beginners to give them an idea of where and what to look for the next couple weekends. They will probably be shown several other edibles along with a host of shrooms that are not edible. We'll be hunting road chickens also.
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Thanks for the great info! I'm going to have to get out and give it a try. Thanks
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I highly reccommend the books by David Arora on mushrooms. One is listed under the books tab at the beginning of this forum...he also has a great field guide.
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Lawdog I've sevarl chantrelle spots that are small but produce consistent harvests that just don't fit the typical descriptions of where they are found. It's just a matter of getting out and taking a walk around my neighborhood...anyone living in a rural conifer forest habitat probably has them just around the corner.
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I could probably volunteer some tours of the Hamma Hamma watershed for beginners to give them an idea of where and what to look for the next couple weekends. They will probably be shown several other edibles along with a host of shrooms that are not edible. We'll be hunting road chickens also.
wish i wasn't so far away or i'd like to take you up on that. as a kid my folks, brother, and i used to go out with my grandmother [hardcore polish shroomer] and pick mushrooms. "shaggy mains" is the only name reference i can recall. when grandma couldn't make it we always took our "find" to her house so she could verify we had "eaters". i miss those days....i'm a natural scrounge, and i love to eat mushrooms.
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New to this site and new to NW mushrooming. I grew up in TN on a farm and every spring me and my mom and granma would be out looking for dry land fish(morels) and poke sallet. Miss those days for sure. I recently bought David A's book and have been going out looking for Chantrelles and so far no luck. I thought I had found a bunch but on closer inspection seemed to be false chantrelles. I live in Rainier WA with Ft Lewis as my backdoor neighbor so have access to mature forests but cant figure out why I havent found any. Have been finding a lot of Zellers Bolete. Do chantrelles grow in same area as ZB?? Oh also found a couple big cauliflower mushrooms too. Any help appreciated.
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If you found cauliflower shrooms you are in the Chantrelle zone.
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Thanks. Are the Cauliflowers good to eat? I picked a bunch of the smaller Boletes as the larger ones had worms and they were good. Are drying some too. I seemed to notice less mushrooms where the big fire ant nests were. Do the ants eat the schrooms?? Funny now that I have started mushroom hunting I seem to walk around everywhere with my head down looking... Is this a common malady of liking mushrooms too much.
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I took a walk around the property today. I found two whole chantrelles, lots and lots of stems at ground level, freshly scratched dirt, hoof prints and pellet sized turds.
 Pretty sure the same creature that keeps eating my shrubs and trees is eating the shrooms.
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Cauliflowers are excellent eating and yes you will have have a permanent condition of always looking down for shrooms.
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No Chantrelles yet on the new place which is kind of suprising because it looks like ideal ground. We're about 1200' elevation on the SE slope of Livingston Mtn just north of Camas. I'm thinking their not up yet because there's no nipped off stems from the deer, and I found 4 fresh ones on a trail beside the Washougal which is at least 800' lower elev.
So does it sound like I should keep looking or is the Chant season pretty short?
Did find LOTS of Boletes, but unsure of the varieties. The most numerous have a grayish brown cap with yellowish underside. My son found some really pretty Boletes with dark purplish red caps and red stems. Needless to say didn't eat any but I'll have to research them.
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I spent 2 hours this afternoon tramping around and only gathered a meals worth of Chantrelles and Admirable boletes. As far as I am concerned the woods are still to dry for Chantrelles. Who knows what the season will turn out to be like but I've done well for Chantrelles well in to November before until the first serious hard freeze. People are missing a good eating opportunity by not recognizing and harvesting winter chantrelles...not as substantial as the yellows and whites but still tasty. Silverfly that last described bolete sounds like it is an Admirable but if it has gills tinged or colored red don't eat them. David Aroras books will help out with identification.
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I just ordered two books, Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi and All That the Rain Promises, and More ...: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms, by David Arora, I hunt chanterelles and shaggies all the time. And I have never gone for any others because I never felt like I could because of the danger, but now I’ve seen some of the mushrooms you guys are talking about and I want to start picking those as well. I'm pretty sure that I have found some Matsutakes on my last hunt, and I’m pretty sure I found some other edibles like some black chantrelles last year. Once I get those books I will go after some of the other mushrooms and post some pics to see if you guys think they are what they are. This is an awesome forum, I don’t know why I haven’t posted here before. Thanks Dustin
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You purchased the 2 best books for hunting shrooms. Matsu have a distinct spicey smell and when you thump one with a finger it's solid.
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