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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 spring
Blueberry Indigo Cake Baked in Eggshells

Gold-flecked eggshells can be peeled back to reveal beautiful indigo-colored cakes full of the flavors of blueberries and wild violets!

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Secret Recipe: Soothing Dandelion Bath Bombs for 'Eggshell Days'

These soothing botanical bath bombs are as beautiful as they are effective! Packed full of plant-based goodness and natural colors, they make a wonderful gift or moment of self-care.

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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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April Fools: Blue Crab Buns with Clover (Once in a Blue Moon)

These beautiful deep blue crab buns are truly special. Clover blossoms and clover honey give them a pleasant aromatic sweetness, perfect for dipping in a wild berry curd!

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Wild Spring Savoy Cake As A Doorway

This beautiful plant-based centerpiece dish is filled with wild asparagus, saffron, and lemon risotto, plus a layer of creamed dandelion greens. Heart, wholesome, and delicious it is a great way to welcome the first wild greens of the year!

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Violet Leaf Naiad Lotion and A Review of The Backyard Herbal Apothecary

A sumptuous springtime lotion inspired by a recipe in my great friend’s new book - see my book review and find the recipe for my adaptation filled with springtime sensuality.

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Salt-Baked Salmon (And The Cycle Of Nourishment)

A beautiful way to showcase an inspiring food: the intrepid salmon travelers, cloaked in a salt crust and infused with the flavors of the river canyons and forests they swim through to return to their spawning grounds, bearing with them the gifts of nutrition from their ocean days.

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