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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 wild food love
Secret Recipe: Persian Trouts and Fir Tip Pilaf

This recipe is a delightful ode to summer’s bounty. Fresh-caught trout are stuffed with fresh green herbs, stone fruits, and dried currants steeped in pomegranate molasses. A drizzle of saffron butter adds floral complexity, and they lay on a bed of rice pilaf filled with the fresh forest flavors of tender conifer tips and toasted pine nuts. A saffron and spruce tip aioli is the perfect finishing touch for this summertime feast.

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Secret Recipe: Elderflower Vanilla Floats

It’s surprisingly easy to brew fresh, fragrant elderflowers into a sparkling soda, and after just a day or two you’ll have a soda sparkling with the wild and enchanting essence of elderflower. I love serving it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for the best float you’ve ever tasted. Cheers to the magic of elderflowers and the spaces they inhabit. Cheers to the people living authentically as themselves around the edges of societal stodginess. Cheers to the freedom to be exactly who we are.

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Secret Recipe: First Night at the Ocean Pasta

Happy Wondercrew Wednesday! Today I am sharing a recipe that is very dear to my soul: it's what I used to make for myself every time I went to visit my beloved Pacific Ocean.

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Conversation Rolls (with wild onion!)

Fluffy, buttery rolls with a delicious herbal garlic flavor are all dressed up for the feast! They’re not empty-handed, though: they’ve also got a fun activity rolled right into them.

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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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Wild Seeds and Crunchy Roots Salad: We Are All Mosaics

A bright seasonal salad of citrus and crunchy roots, tossed with a wild mustard strawberry vinaigrette, brings the reminder that we are all made up of every interaction we’ve ever had, even the little ones.

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