Chantarelles, symbol mushrooms of autumn in Sweden

Golden chantarelles, kantareller, autumn 2009

Chantarelles are prized mushrooms of autumn, where the adventures of plucking a handful of these would make for any dinner conversation, except the revelation of their location.
Photos © Jan-Erik Nilsson and Cheryl Marie Cordeiro for CMC, 2009

Elegantly formed with a smooth capped top and a ridged funnel shaped body, the long stems of the golden Chantarelle proves pleasantly distracting to the eye when seated next to the plumper and more rotund white button mushrooms at the store.

More familiar with Shitake mushrooms when growing up in Singapore, and having grown to dislike its pungent taste in stir-fried noodles, thereby associating all mushrooms with pungent tastes, I grew up never really caring for mushrooms, until I was introduced to kantareller in Sweden.

6 Responses to “Chantarelles, symbol mushrooms of autumn in Sweden”


  1. 1 wenhao gai

    这是鸡油菌,非常好吃!!!颜色和口感都很棒!!!

  2. 2 cheryl

    我也这么想!谢谢!

  3. 3 Birgitta Höglund's Food

    Delicious! We are lucky to have a lot of chanterelles in the mountains of Jämtland right now.
    Had a chantarellesauce with newly fished brook Trout, yesterday.
    Like Your blog and the lovely pictures.
    Have a nice weekend./ Birgitta

  4. 4 Cheryl

    Birgitta,
    I was just about to bake kladdkaka again for dessert! Your food blog is wonderful!
    Trevlig helg
    Cheryl

  5. 5 Birgitta Höglund's Food

    Thank’s for Your kind reply! It’s so nice to find blogs with both good recipes and pictures.

    Trevlig helg till dig med, Cheryl :)

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