Five glorious pounds of chanterelles, become one glorious pint of chanterelle powder. The ultimate satisfaction would have been to harvest them myself, but that will be a pleasure I'll enjoy again when my kids are big enough to carry their own weight.  In the meanwhile, I got a wickedly good deal on these at our newly-opened "Corner Market" here in my neighbhorbood which sells all sorts of locally grown and harvested goodies. They were just closing up and I was just leaving (disappointed that they had neither eggs or chanterelles) when some young mushroom hunters pulled in with a harvest. Yipee!

I can hardly wait to put some of this concentrated deliciousness into a soup.