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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 gluten free
Secret Recipe: Strawberry cake with Brown Butter and Candy Cap Buttercream

This moist gluten-free cake is packed full of strawberry flavor, then covered in a luxurious browned butter and candy cap mushroom buttercream. Mushrooms and strawberries may sound like the strangest of bedfellows, but I promise they work!

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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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Woodland Acorn Pasta with Fir and Miso Pesto

This hearty pasta is full of forest flavors, from the gluten-free acorn flour noodles to the fir and miso pesto they are tossed in. It tastes like an instant transport to a woodland daydream…

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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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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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Secret Recipe: Mariposa Dosas (Emerging from Liminality)

Wild flavors and hearty textures of the local landscape are paired with bright traditional spices, all wrapped up in a soft butterfly wing pancake: the perfect way to start a new day.

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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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Autumn’s Softening: Avocado Toast with Sauteed Wild Greens, Miso Eggs, and Poppyseeds

This hearty take on the classic involves seedy artisan gluten-free bread, sautéed wild greens, fresh avocado, and the tastiest miso eggs you’ve ever eaten!

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For The Love Of Bats: Gluten-Free Pasta With Purslane and Sunset Roasted Cauliflower (Plant Based)

This gluten-free and Plant-based savory showstopper is the perfect dinner for an elegantly spooky feast. It’s a warming dish full of zesty flavors and spices, making use of the last of the purslane (which is delightfully crunchy and tart, plus contains a slew of Omega 3s.) Celebrate bats and their contributions to environments all over the world with this meal!

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Time for Pure Play: Lavender, Lemon, and Purple Sweet Potato Donuts

If you can’t get enough of purple, these donuts are your fix: made primarily with purple sweet potato, they come together quite easily and are both plant-based and gluten-free. Also: sprinkles. Edible glitter. Edible flowers. All the fun stuff! Join me for some PLAY!

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