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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. 

Welcome to the Blog!

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 in Food and Ceremony
The Bread of the Times: Yarrow and Carrot Focaccia Art

This pillowy soft and sunshine yellow bread is as easy to make as it is stunning. It’s a fantastic recipe for a novice baker, and carries flavors and symbolism that reflect deep comfort and strength. Yarrow infuses it with a delicious woodsy flavor while carrots and turmeric give it a cheerful glow.

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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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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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Plant-Based Double Rainbow Lasagne

This plant-based naturally-colored lasagne is a showstopper, both in flavor and in presentation. It’s a big project to undertake, but the process is fun and engaging! Give it a try to celebrate everything the rainbow stands for.

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Flower Millefiori Sushi with Wildcrafted Delights

These colorful designs get their colorful design inspiration from ancient glassblowing techniques, their culinary inspiration from Japanese sushi, and their bright and fresh flavors straight from the woods of the Pacific Northwest.

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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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Earth Day Connection Ritual And Wild Bounty Deviled Eggs

This simple three-part ritual will allow you to give thanks for the wonderful wild spaces that support you, no matter where you live. Make these beautifully colored and decorated deviled eggs to celebrate the day as well!

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Pantry Pearls: Wild Violet Surprise Cake

This beautiful and delicious cake with huckleberry jam and wild violet fillings has a couple of secrets folded into that batter… have a read to find out the secret ingredient in your pantry that will bring it to life!

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The Lost Bread of Atlantis

Let me drag you down into the ocean after the lore of a mysterious utopia that disappeared in a single day. I’ll show you the flavors and colors of what they dined upon as we get lost in the magic of mythology.

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Dandelion Sweet Potato Waffles with Banana Caramel Sauce (establishing a weekly ritual)

These delicious spring waffles are gluten-free, plant-based, free from refined sugars, and absolutely unquestionably DELICIOUS. Establishing a weekly breakfast ritual in your household can build community and get you through tough times together. This recipe is a great place to start.

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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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