HOLIDAY RECIPES

A collection of recipes for holidays, using the best ingredients and easy, reliable techniques. Sustainable ingredients to help lower your carbon footprint.

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.

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 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.

Best Buñuelos De Viento Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
December 2, 2023February 20, 2024

This is the best Buñuelos De Viento Recipe for a classic Mexican cookie. Updated for a nutty taste that is also healthier and sustainable.

Gluten-Free Rosette Cookie Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
September 2, 2023February 21, 2024

This is the best gluten-free recipe for Scandinavian Rosette cookies – based on our traditional family recipe. Updated with nut oil and almond milk to add flavor, but also to make these cookies healthier and climate friendly.

Best Rosette Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
September 1, 2023February 21, 2024

This is the best recipe for Scandinavian Rosette cookies – based on our traditional family recipe. Updated with nut oil and almond milk to add flavor, but also to make these cookies healthier and climate friendly.

Czech Easter Bread Recipe – Mazanec

by Lisa LeCoump
April 5, 2023February 21, 2024

The best Czech Easter Bread recipe. Perfect for the holiday season!
Delicious – Easy – Sustainable – Healthier

Best Saint Patrick’s Day Recipes

by Lisa LeCoump
February 4, 2023February 21, 2024

The best recipes for celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day – delicious, healthy and authentic – from our Irish heritage.

Tang Cu Pai Gu Recipe – Chinese Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs

by Lisa LeCoump
January 19, 2023February 21, 2024

A popular appetizer in China, sweet-and-sour spare ribs, or tang cu pai gu recipe is not difficult to make, and is incredible with the right ingredients. This is our best recipe for that famous dish.

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.