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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 tagged edible flowers
Secret Recipe: Dianthus Huckleberry Blintzes

This week’s Wondercrew Wednesday features a Secret Recipe for lovely pink crepes filled with sweet ricotta and topped with huckleberry sauce and dianthus whipped cream for a delightfully indulgent breakfast treat!

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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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Secret Recipe: Strawberry Spruce Cake Festooned with Glacier Lilies (Vegan and Gluten-Free!)

This beautiful springtime cake is a dedication to learning to dance with the flavors of the forest! Full of both the flavors and colors of springtime, it is as delicious as it is beautiful.

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A More Inclusive Mothers Day: Bouquet Brunch with Wild Asparagus and Stuffed Tulips

This dish is presented as a beautiful bouquet that’s entirely edible, flowers, ribbon, and all! Crunchy tulip cups are filled with a balanced seafood salad, and a side helping of a discussion about what it means to be a mother.

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Double Cherry Macarons: Stop Waiting

These beautiful macarons are full of the flavors of spring cherry blossoms, from the perfumed shells to the tart buttercream to the filling of cherry blossom and cherry jam. You can even make lovely little wafer paper blossoms to adorn them with!

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Magnolia Magic: Caramel Magnolia Bundt Cake

This soft, moist, rich cake is full of the unmistakably enchanting flavor of spring magnolias, accented by a delicious caramel icing and candied magnolia tepals! It’s gluten and dairy free and keeps well for several days (if it makes it that long…)

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Wildflower Buttermilk Pie (A Cottagecore Fantasy; An Easy Reality)

This show-stopping buttermilk pie flavored and decorated with edible spring flowers (including daffodils crafted out of wafer paper!) is about as Cottagecore as it gets. This post gives the full recipe, and also dives into my relationship to this aesthetic movement. Come daydream with me!

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Lavender Earl Grey Chocolate Cake: Eat The Pretty Things!

This deliciously moist and rich chocolate cake gets its unmistakably delicious flavor from urban foraged lavender and earl grey tea. Bake it up because YOU definitely deserve something “too pretty to eat.”

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Foraging For the Joy of it: Wildflower Chocolate Bark

What better way to dress up delicious artisan chocolate than by bedecking it with foraged wildflowers, fruits, and other treats from the wild food pantry? This post also dives into the question: why do you forage?

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Seafoam as Portal (With Mermaid Chia Pudding)

This beautiful layered dessert is reminiscent of deep blue oceans and floating seafoam. It’s colored naturally and would make a fun dish for either a dessert or breakfast. The chia pudding is flavored with a floral syrup to make it extra celebratory

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