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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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Cattail Chlodnik: Why 'Summer Legs' mean Freedom

This refreshing chilled soup is as vibrant in flavor as it is in color! Crunchy, juicy, cooling cattail shoots are the perfect addition to make it extra delightful on a hot spring day.

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Kokedama-Inspired Savory Delights: Conifer Tip and Black Garlic Cheese Balls

These stunning appetizers pair the brightness of freshly foraged conifer tips with the earthy umami-rich flavor of black garlic, to create edible versions of the Japanese garden art form of Kokedama

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A More Inclusive Mothers Day: Bouquet Brunch with Wild Asparagus and Stuffed Tulips

This dish is presented as a beautiful bouquet that’s entirely edible, flowers, ribbon, and all! Crunchy tulip cups are filled with a balanced seafood salad, and a side helping of a discussion about what it means to be a mother.

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Double Cherry Macarons: Stop Waiting

These beautiful macarons are full of the flavors of spring cherry blossoms, from the perfumed shells to the tart buttercream to the filling of cherry blossom and cherry jam. You can even make lovely little wafer paper blossoms to adorn them with!

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The Trickster's Seafood Sampler

These delicious small plates piled high with foraged sea vegetables and edible flowers, flaky fried fish, crispy fish skin, and gorgeous caviar have a secret… not only are they positively delicious, they’re completely plant-based!

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Pacific Northwest Clam Chowder and Polar Bear Ritual

This flavorful recipe for clam chowder makes the most of spring in the Pacific Northwest: cold water temps mean a great shellfish season, while warming soil means morel mushrooms and wild herbs. This is comfort food with a twist, paired with an invigorating ritual for a polar bear plunge in some cold water!

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Magnolia Magic: Caramel Magnolia Bundt Cake

This soft, moist, rich cake is full of the unmistakably enchanting flavor of spring magnolias, accented by a delicious caramel icing and candied magnolia tepals! It’s gluten and dairy free and keeps well for several days (if it makes it that long…)

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Acorn Bread and Golden Eggs: A Ritual For Community

Soft, fluffy bread baked with the heartiness of acorn flour and studded with white chocolate chips is the perfect nest for cheerful yellow eggs. This bread is full of symbolism, and comes with a non-secular ritual for celebrating closeness.

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Wildflower Buttermilk Pie (A Cottagecore Fantasy; An Easy Reality)

This show-stopping buttermilk pie flavored and decorated with edible spring flowers (including daffodils crafted out of wafer paper!) is about as Cottagecore as it gets. This post gives the full recipe, and also dives into my relationship to this aesthetic movement. Come daydream with me!

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Fir Sugar Spiced Edible Stardust

This delicious mixture full of the round flavors of fir needles, cardamom, and black pepper is as sparkly as it is delectable. It’s how I would imagine stardust to taste. Using it in a ritualized way can remind you of your own stardust magic!

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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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Secret Recipe: Chocolate Chaga Ammolite Crepe Cake!

This cake contains many wonders, from chaga-infused chocolate crepes and ganache, to a nutty coconut frosting, to a big beautiful tempered chocolate decoration inspired by ammolite fossils!

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