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This blog is an exploration of daily magic, featuring wild plants, creative recipes, meaningful ceremonies, and writings about our shared humanity. 

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Welcome to the Wondersmith's Writings! Here you can find magical recipes featuring foraged ingredients, musings on food and ceremony, and meaningful rituals to explore your own everyday magic. Though I have been focused on other writing pursuits, I am keeping all of my blog content up as a resource for you. You can use the search bar below to find what you are looking for. (Please note that sometimes you need to refresh the page to see the search results.) Happy reading! If you'd like to support my goal to spread magic far and wide, consider contributing to my patreon program!

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Posts in Food and Ceremony
The Tortured Artist: Magic Green Bread

This nutty, wholesome bread is naturally a rich emerald green! Read on to find the secret ingredient, plus recipes for feral apple butter and cultured butter to top it.

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A Cake For Other Realms With Rowan And Raven Skulls

This moist ginger cake is topped with caramel and tart rowan berries, then decorated with completely edible marzipan raven skulls! Read on to learn the symbolism of both Rowan and Ravens…

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Chicory Pumpkin Tiramisu: Let People Enjoy Things (Vegan and GF)

This tasty dessert is a celebration of all things fall - pumpkin spice, roasted roots, and of course roasted pumpkin. It’s vegan, gluten-free, and can be made without refined sugar so everyone at the table can enjoy it!

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Wild Mushroom Goulash Hand Pies and Edge Diving

These delicious savory hand pies are filled with a wild mushroom goulash filling and decorated in gorgeous fall colors with natural spices and vegetables!

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Purple Velvet Bundt Cake with Wild Ginger and White Chocolate

This decadent gluten-free cake is moist, buttery, and bright purple, thanks to the addition of powdered purple sweet potato! It’s delicately flavored with wild ginger and accented with white chocolate for a balanced (and delicious) autumnal treat.

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Wild Amaranth Porridge: Little Pleasures

This hearty porridge is filled with deliciously nutty and wholesome amaranth grains, foraged much more easily than you might expect! It tastes wonderful with cardamom blueberry compote and some cream or yogurt for a full breakfast.

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Bee Balm Tenderloin and Grilled Peaches: The Flavor Game

This succulent dish is a delightful combination of late summer flavors, from corncob jelly to bee balm blossoms. Hearty polenta is layered with juicy grilled peaches and delicious pork tenderloin for an easy and show stopping main dish.

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“Lamb’s Quarter” Pounders with Chutney and Dutch Crunch Buns:

There’s no lamb to be found in these delicious plant-based burger patties, made instead out of a common (and delicious) weed! Spiced with curry and topped with chutney, cilantro, and a crunchy bun, these are a flavorful and textural late summer delight.

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Peaches and Hay Mini Cheesecakes with Honey

These elegant little desserts are a summer daydream: packed full of late-summer flavors like roasted peaches, hay, and of course honey, they look like little rounds of honey-drenched comb. You’ll love the array of textures and flavors and the story they tell.

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Rebellion Pasta with Mugwort and Summer Relish

Come here for a laugh. Come here for a brief art history lesson. But most of all, come here for a vibrant, summery bowl of pasta full of dynamic flavors and textures! Mugwort basil noodles have a wonderful herbal flavor that goes wonderfully with a cold fresh corn salsa, perfectly spiced.

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Russian Blue Sage Bread with Turmeric, Apricots, and Walnuts: The Nature of Celebrations

This beautiful gluten-free artisan bread is flavored with Russian Blue Sage, a popular landscaping plant with a pleasant herbal flavor. I’ve paired it with turmeric, apricots, and toasted walnuts… and some thoughts about the nature of celebrations

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Songpyeon Cakes: Summer Delights!

These beautiful trompe l’oeil rice cakes look just like fresh heirloom tomatoes, but taste like summer fruits, pine needles, and sweet honey nuts! They’re as fun to make as they are to eat.

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Gourmet Carrot Dogs with Wildcrafted Condiments (Bountiful Urban Foraging) 

Want to add some flavor to summertime BBQs using plants that others disregard, discard, or discourage? Come with me on an urban foraging adventure that ends in some tasty condiments, plus a recipe for plant-based carrot dogs full of umami tastiness!

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Scavenger Spread, Cattail Pollen Pancakes, and Huckleberry Magic!

Take advantage of the bounty summer has to offer! From Swamp Gold to Forest Rubies to city trees dripping with wasted fruit, now is the time to enjoy the decadence of the summer.

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Celebrating Summer Rains: Petrichor Appetizers with Wild Mint

These dynamic appetizers were inspired by the sheer joy of summer rainstorms and petrichor. They’re easy, stunning, and absolutely delicious! Celebrate the next rare summer rainstorm with these bites of summertime.

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Rhubarb and Strawberry Babka: Wild vs. Feral

This light, fluffy bread gets its delicious flavor from pineapple weed and orange zest, plus a filling of strawberry rhubarb jam. It’s summertime in a slice! Grab a piece and join me for a discussion on “wild vs. feral” when it comes to foraged foods

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Personal Mythology and Importance of Storytelling: Rainbow Veggie Skewers with Homemade Purslane Yogurt 

Celebrate all the colors of the rainbow with this easy, plant-based meal. Homemade vegan yogurt (it’s easier than you think!) is accented with fresh feral mint and purslane, the perfect accompaniment to grilled rainbow veggie skewers.

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Plant-Based Opal Honeysuckle Dessert: Celebrating Light!

Have you ever wanted to eat a giant opal? Now is your chance! This plant-based dessert looks like a giant gemstone, and holds the refreshing fruity and floral flavors of early summer with a honeysuckle infusion and lots of fresh fruit.

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Black Locust Salad with Sea Glass Toast: Beauty and Pleasure are Worthwhile Pursuits

This salad is a joy to look at with fascinating textures and sea glass colors, but it also tastes delightful too! Sweet honey locust flowers and fresh peas are balanced with a tart spruce tip vinaigrette and umami-rich pecorino romano cheese

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FlowerFetti Pierogis: Flowers as Flavor!

Learn all about edible flowers, then create stunning flowerfetti pierogis filled with lots of delicious flower petals in a dish that can be breakfast, lunch, dessert, or the first course of dinner!

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