Last night we decided to have a mushroom challenge to determine which type of mushroom, chanterelles or shitakes, tasted better.  We cleaned and sliced the mushrooms, sauteed them in butter, sprinkled them with a little truffle salt and served them on toasted bread that we had lightly rubbed with cut garlic.  Then we tasted …. the conclusion? we liked the TASTE of shitakes best but we liked the TEXTURE and feel of the chanterelles better than the shitakes.  Our solution: combine both types of mushrooms (see photo below) to make the perfect wild mushroom bruschetta.  Also, the bruschetta tasted better when we didn’t rub the toasted bread with garlic…the garlic tended to overwhelm the mushrooms.   We added a little basil for color.

Chanterelle-Shitake Bruschetta

Golden chanterelles vs. Brown shitakes