Mushrooms Picking in the Auvergne!

Gyromitres drying

My neighbor Jeannot knows all the secret spots to find mushrooms.  He brought me a big box of girolles, or sometimes called chanterelles, that he picked.  He taught me how to cook them in butter, garlic, parsley and cream.  They accompanied very well the veal chops I cooked to go with them.

Pictured here with Jeannot are two pans of  mushrooms called gyromitres.  They are poisonous until dried properly and then cooked.  They loose their toxicity when processed in this manner.  I hear they are delicious but I have to admit I did not try them!

Chanterelle mushrooms from the woods