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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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Wild Seed and Maple Cream Fertility Cakes

These hearty, seed-filled cakes drizzled with maple cream are a beautiful reminder of potential. What do you want to give birth to? An idea? A project? A child? Accompanied by a fertility ritual, these cakes are a symbol of spring’s abundance to come, metaphorically or literally!

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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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Lobsters by Sea, and Also By Land...

This “Double Lobsta Pasta” is a delicious combination of silky roasted red pepper sauce, shallots and lobster mushrooms cooked in wild bay butter, and fresh roasted lobster tails. It’s bright, it’s flavorful, it’s easy, and it’s perfect winter comfort food.

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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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Waking Up In Darkness: Shadow Dancing and Drinking Chocolate

A meditation on the magic of winter nights, plus a recipe for rich drinking chocolate bon-bons flavored with the depths of winter.

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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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"Curiosity, Patience, and Strength": WonderStitcher Fairytale 1 (with Lime Gingerbread Amanita Cookies)

Temptingly delicious gingerbread Amanita Musicaria cookies will draw you into the magic, just as their real counterparts enticed the protagonist in the wonderful fairytale that accompanies this recipe. This blog post contains our fairytale in video format, as well as the recipe for those tempting treats!

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Wild Fennel and Saffron Savory Solstice Galette

Happy Winter Solstice! This plant-based delight is the perfect way to celebrate the longest night of the year, and the return of the sun as we begin to move towards longer days. It’s spiced with fennel and saffron and packed full of delicious flavors and textures of apples, onions, and potatoes.

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Cake Dreams, Connection, And Curly Dock Magic

This hearty winter cake is baked with toasted curly dock seed flour, mulled wine poached pears, mascarpone cream, and candied walnuts. It’s also a reminder of why connection is so important this time of year!

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Hidden Winter Wonders and a Shakshuka Breakfast

If you’re looking for a hearty savory breakfast, this one’s got you covered! Delicious spices, zesty watercress, and hot eggs simmered in tomatoes and peppers…all scooped up with a crusty bread. It’s the perfect start to a winter’s day!

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The Beauty of a Gift Economy, plus Pistachio Wild Jam Thumbprint Cookies

Let’s discuss the beauty of gift economies and brainstorm how we can create our own pockets of generosity within the confines of our capitalistic society as we nibble on delicious, gluten-free and vegan thumprint cookies filled with foraged jams!

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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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Basque-Inspired Wild Foods Tapas Bar

Traditional Basque pintxos are combined with locally foraged ingredients to create a fusion spread that speaks of Idaho’s bounty and history! Many small dishes are easy to prepare, and a delight to share with family or friends.

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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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Bison Brisket Squash Centerpiece: Listening

Flavorful buffalo brisket served casserole-style in a baked squash with a topping of zesty roasted Brussel sprouts and cranberries is a perfect centerpiece for an autumnal feast… and starting point to an important conversation.

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