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Blueberry Sugar Cookie Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
March 14, 2024March 18, 2024

This is the easiest recipe for making soft blueberry sugar cookies – a vanilla sugar cookie with wild Vermont blueberry jam swirled through it. These are the best tasting and use the best sustainable ingredients.

Recipes for celebrating Cherry Blossom Season

by Lisa LeCoump
March 14, 2024March 14, 2024

The collection of recipes for celebrating the cherry blossom season or just celebrating spring.

Cherry Blossom Cookie Recipe | Sakura Sugar Cookies

by Lisa LeCoump
March 12, 2024March 18, 2024

This recipe makes the best cherry blossom sugar cookies – crispy on the outside, soft in the middle – using Japanese cherry blossom powder – Sakura. The best tasting and it uses sustainable ingredients that can actually reverse climate change.

A scoop of pink Sakura Ice Cream on a gray concrete counter

Sakura Ice Cream Recipe | Cherry Blossoms

by Lisa LeCoump
March 11, 2024March 16, 2024

This is an easy recipe for the best homemade sakura (cherry blossom) ice cream – made with Japanese cherry blossom powder. A lovely way to celebrate cherry blossom season

Best Homemade Pistachio Ice Cream Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
February 23, 2024March 15, 2024

This recipe for the best homemade pistachio ice cream is natural and sustainable – inspired by the popular ice cream flavor in France.

Brown Sugar Substitute Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
February 23, 2024March 15, 2024

When a recipe calls for brown sugar, there is a really simple substitute. You will wonder why you ever bought brown sugar. This is so much easier – and easy on your budget.

Superfine Sugar Substitute – Extra Fine Sugar | Caster Sugar | Baker’s Sugar

by Lisa LeCoump
February 22, 2024February 23, 2024

When you need a substitute for superfine sugar, also known as caster sugar or baker’s sugar, it’s really as simple as making it. Once you make it yourself, you will wonder why you ever bought it. It is much less expensive to make it and it takes only two minutes – literally only two minutes.

Easy Cracker Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
February 19, 2024March 15, 2024

This is an easy recipe for crispy, healthy, whole wheat seed crackers. A few minutes of mixing and they are ready for the oven. A nutty taste that is also healthy and sustainable.

Birch Syrup Ice Cream Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
February 19, 2024March 15, 2024

We created this recipe for birch syrup ice cream after discovering the syrup on a trip to Alaska. Similar to maple syrup, it is sweet and tangy with a distinct earthy flavor. Birch syrup is the natural sap of the tree collected by tapping the wild birch trees.

Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
January 3, 2024February 21, 2024

The best chocolate chip cookie recipes ever. They are crispy on the outside, soft in the middle, loaded with flavor and big chunks of chocolate – Made with ingredients that will actually reverse climate change.

According to the United Nations, “Our food systems right now are unsustainable. They are a major contributor to the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution“. But, research done at U.C., Davis demonstrates that “soils could store enough carbon to offset a significant proportion of fossil fuel emissions”, and actually reverse climate change. This happens when farmers use ‘regenerative agriculture’ practices, which increase and keep organic matter in the soil. This blog features products that are grown this way, so you will know which brands will help reverse climate change.

While traveling the world and looking for the best quality ingredients, we found that many producers who care about quality also care about sustainability. When we used the best quality ingredients we also reduced our carbon footprint. Additionally, by buying regenerative products, we could actually help reverse climate change. So, this blog features some of those products. If everyone did this, more farmers would use ‘regenerative practices’ and it would have a big effect on climate change. Little changes add up to something big. Little things matter. We could save the world, one cookie at a time.

Professional Photographer - Food Photographer, Wedding Photographer. Lisa was previously the Deputy Agricultural Commissioner, responsible for reviewing and enforcing organic regulations and Environmental Protection Agency pesticide use regulations. She also worked for years as an Agricultural Advisor in California, a farmer in California, and an Agricultural Extension Agent in Thailand. She received a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from California State University, Chico and studied Integrated Pest Management at U.C., Davis, which involved farming methods that preserve the environment.