CELEBRATING THE SEASONS

A collection of posts about how eating with the seasons will have you eating better, celebrating the season, and will help lower your carbon footprint.

Best Brown butter Caramelized Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies

Best Brown Butter Caramelized Milk Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
April 28, 2024May 1, 2024

This is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe. The brown butter and quality ingredients like Valrhona Dulcey Caramelized Milk Chocolate make these the best tasting cookies. And the modern method means they are quick, easy and foolproof – a joy to make with kids. Made with melted butter so they are crispy on the outside, fudgy in the middle. Even better, they are made with ingredients that will actually reverse climate change.

Best Irish Shortbread Cookie Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
March 17, 2024April 30, 2024

This Irish Shortbread cookie recipe is so easy to make – and also the best tasting. But there are a few secrets that you need to know.

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.

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.

Best Swedish Cardamom Buns Recipe (Kardemummabullar)

by Lisa LeCoump
December 7, 2023February 20, 2024

This recipe makes the best Swedish cardamom buns (kardemummabullar) – We updated the recipe so it was still homemade and delicious, but easy and sustainable.

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.