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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 in Secret Recipes
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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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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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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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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Craft Club: Felted Foraging Bowls and a Meditation on Touch

Get ready for spring’s foraging season by crafting tough, versatile, and beautiful bowls out of wool!

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Secret Recipe: Yuzu Elderflower Cheesecake: the Fairytale Of Creativity

A mysterious ancient spellbook, full of secrets...wait, is that gingerbread I smell? A flaky bite. A creamy, tangy center. This ancient spellbook holds an unexpected interior: a cheesecake unlike any other you’ve had before. I can honestly tell you that this realistic fairytale book was a joy to create. Why? Because projects like this are all about honoring and exploring creativity!

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The Magic Is Here: Piñon Smoked Creamy Sauce with Pine Nut Balls (Secret Recipe)

Hearty plant-based “meat”balls and pasta are cloaked in a creamy sauce full of flavor, infused with the magic of pinion pines and intention. This post is about learning to find the magic in the (seemingly) mundane.

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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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Secret Recipe: CandyCap Ganache Cake (Gather The Fuel)

This stunning cake is a delight of flavors and textures. It has a rich, strong maple flavor with a slight kick of alcohol swirled through a silky ganache, layered between tender gluten-free crepe-like cakes. It’s all the woodsy, earthy, warmth you’d want from a log cake, without tasting even a little bit like firewood.

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Secret Recipe: Velvety Darkness, Precious Roots, and a Sunday Supper

Lean in to the longer evenings by cooking a hearty and delicious meal by candlelight. It’s as much of a ritual as a recipe, and it will leave you feeling nourished in more ways than one.

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Secret Recipe: Acorn Pot Pies: Mast Years and Golden Brambles

You’ll be the most popular squirrel on the block with these golden pastries filled with a rich chicken pot pie filling full of fruit and spices (and a cap-full of turmeric thyme mashed potatoes!) This is a Wondercrew Wednesday Post!

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Secret Recipe: Nettle Star Bread and a Love Letter to you!

For this week’s Wondercrew Wednesday, I’m sharing a really special Secret Recipe for a gorgeous green star bread packed full of foraged autumnal flavors! It’s accompanied by a love letter to you (yes, you!) that I really hope you’ll read <3

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WW Secret Recipe: Black Walnut Cinnamon Challah

Happy Wondercrew Wednesday AND Rosh Hashanah! It’s my pleasure to share this unique take on Challah with you today - full of the warm flavors of cinnamon and black walnuts, coated in poppyseeds, and purple inside (just because) This Secret Recipe is a special gift to my Patrons. You can learn more at patreon.com/thewondersmith

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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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