Electronic logbook for the last week of October 2016

Autumn delicacy

On Sunday, we went to one of my favourite areas in Lausanne, Mauvernay/Chalet à Gobet, to wander through the forest looking for edible mushrooms.

Even if to my wife's huge disappointment, we did not get to find many chanterelles and not a single black trumpet, we did come across mushrooms we had not seen before, including this beautiful hericium coralloides on the heartwood of a log, the sad remnant of what must have been a solid trunk full of vitality, growing high towards the sky.



Thoroughly cleaned and then sautéed, this mushroom was a real novelty for our taste buds, so much so that I would need to put one in my mouth again to be able to describe its flavour accurately – which also means that there is no chance of me ever becoming a food writer.  ;-)

Lastly, how grateful am I to my wife for having allowed me to discover – thanks to her interest in food foraging – part of the complexity and beauty of the natural environment we humans live in. As such, many thanks to you, dear wife.


Lausanne, 26th October 2016