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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 plant based
Secret Recipe: Chicken of the Woods Satay Stuffed Cucumbers (Mushroom Myths Debunked)

These mouthwateringly refreshing bites are the perfect plant-and-mushroom-based summer dinner. Packed with interesting textures, bold flavors, and foraged ingredients, they are sure to bring a smile to your face!

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Easy Recipe: Colorful Plant-Based Crudite!

This lovely platter is a celebration of the bright colors and crunchy textures of spring veggies! It is paired with three easy plant-based dips and adorned with edible flowers for a celebration-ready presentation.

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Secret Recipe: An Earthly Vacation with Kava Kava

This gently-perfumed elixir is soothing, calming, and intensely grounding. It’s a wonderful way to reconnect to the Earth if you’re feeling distant.

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Secret Recipe: Red Vegan Snack Platter

This beautiful array of tasty colors and textures is surprisingly easy to whip together for a winter celebration! Everything is plant based and full of the wonderful flavors of foraged ingredients. This Wondercrew Wednesday post shares all the goodness with my patrons at patreon.com/thewondersmith

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Wild Fennel and Saffron Savory Solstice Galette

Happy Winter Solstice! This plant-based delight is the perfect way to celebrate the longest night of the year, and the return of the sun as we begin to move towards longer days. It’s spiced with fennel and saffron and packed full of delicious flavors and textures of apples, onions, and potatoes.

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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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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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“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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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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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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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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Spring Picnics and why Productivity Doesn’t Always Look Like Working (plus recipes for plant-based “feta” brined with wild herbs and a wild garlic soda bread)

Celebrate the beginning of spring with a delightful picnic: bright green ramps soda bread (from sustainably grown ramps), plus a plant-based marinaded delight similar to feta cheese and flavored with lots of wild herbs!

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Plant-Based Celebration: Smoky Fir-Roast Mushrooms with Sage Polenta

Smoky fir-roast mushrooms full of delicious roasted red pepper sauce are the perfect pairing for creamy, umami-rich polenta with plenty of fresh sage. With a plant-based feast this good, there’s no need for a turkey!

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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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Oregon Grape and Chocolate Mousse: Early Fall is Purple

A silky chocolate mousse is the perfect balance to a vibrant and tart Oregon grape berry mousse. Eaten together, they are absolutely divine. Plant based, and also really easy!

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Watermelon and Daylily Poke Bowls: Why Mock Foods Deserve Celebration!

I love Poke bowls in the summertime. There’s something about fresh fish, flavorful marinades, rice, and vegetables that feels delightfully light. This is an entirely plant-based version using watermelon as the star! It’s accompanied by delicious sauteed daylilies and served in real coconuts for some wild summertime fun!

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