Who knows the mushroom!

I don’t know if it’s very usual in Autralia to search mushrooms for dinner... And I don’t know if the australian mushrooms are dangerous or not... In my family and with my friends we go often in the forest to find them from the end of the summer to the middle of the fall. If we’re lucky, we can find enough for one dinner and we freeze the rest.
Like my grand father did, I took a train on saturday morning in order to reach the Vosges mountain close to Strasbourg. 40 min after leaving Strasbourg the train stops in a little valley where we can find the good secret mushroom places “lost” in the forest!!!! The best time to find them is when there was some rain two days before and one sunny. Luckily we can find a lot of eatable species in Alsace but we need to be careful because some of them can be dangerous. We just took species we’d already eaten. We have found the following; girolle (yellow and really tasty, one of the best), chanterelle charbonnière (deep yellow foot and brown head,the shape is close to the girolle, and one of the bests too), chanterelle(deep yellow foot and brown head, and one of the bests too), pied de mouton (light to deep orange), and amethys (violet, but the taste is not very special)

Chanterelles

Girolle and some Amethys in the background

A mushroom hunter

BIIIIIG Girolle

One big Chanterelle Charbonnière and some Chanterelles

We were lucky because we found some big Girolle and the weather was dry the days before. and this slope was still wet enough because it’s in the shade the most part of the day. On the way we walked through some small typical villages and we found some bunkers from the first world war because the front was in these mountains where the border between France and Germany was.

The entry of a German bunker

A village called Wackenbach

The same village

The church from the 18th century

And enough mushrooms for a good dinner.....