Saturday, August 16, 2014

If you go down to the woods today...

... you might find some mushrooms!!  I did and I wasn't even looking for them!!!  I'd long since resigned myself to the fact that all the secret mushrooms spots here were to remain eternally secret to me, seventeen years of living in this valley and never found one. Until today that is...


... two 'cepes' and five 'chanrelles'!!
Combined with what the garden had to offer we had ourselves quite a feast this evening - Croute Savoyard and salad.


There's no particular recipe for a Croute - every family has their own depending on what's in the pantry.  It's one of those fantastically frugal dishes, originally made with stale bits and bobs - dry bread dipped in white wine to soften it up, the 'Croute' (the hard rind of a piece of cheese), the end bits of ham etc all covered in cream and baked in the oven.  For mine I added my 'two cepes and five chantrelles', some left over potatoes, an egg and a sliced tomato.



My own secret mushroom spot, I almost feel like a local!!!


12 comments:

  1. What an exciting find! Your dish looks delicious too. ��

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  2. A truly delightful supper and an exciting find.

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  3. How exciting! The dish you made with it looks delicious my mother would call it a fridge bottom meal, hasn't got the same ring to it as Croute Savoyard :).

    I love the last picture, wonderful!

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  4. What a lovely find. Finding and cooking one's own mushrooms is very high on my list of delightful things.

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  5. How exciting to find those. That dish looks amazing.

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  6. The dish looks delicious, glad you found the mushrooms.
    Hugs,
    Meredith

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  7. Oh! Yummy! Congratulations on your find!

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  8. Nice mushrooms! What a great find!

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  9. What a find, and it looks like they were well enjoyed :)

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  10. Nice going! Are your mushrooms also very full of water this year? We have had so much rain (not kidding, I am sure we have had a full 4 days of sunshine this summer :( ) that the mushrooms almost disintegrate in your fingers.
    x

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  11. Oh my that dinner looks so yummy! :)

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