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 Dutch Oven Bread Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
October 15, 2022July 12, 2023

Best Dutch Oven Bread Recipe – the best hearth bread recipe we have ever tried. It is by far the easiest to make, and also the best tasting.

Best Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
October 12, 2022July 12, 2023

The best homemade strawberry ice cream recipe starts with a trip to the farmer’s market.

Best Date Ice Cream Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
September 19, 2022July 12, 2023

The Best Recipe for Smooth and Creamy Bahri Date Ice Cream Served with Pistachios and Ras el Hanout

Best Cherry Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
September 18, 2022July 12, 2023

Best Cherry Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Recipe starts with the best ingredients – chunks of Valrhona milk chocolate and Luxardo cherries.

Best Blackberry Ice Cream Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
September 15, 2022July 12, 2023

Best Blackberry Ice Cream Recipe – French vanilla ice cream with ribbons of blackberries through it – like blackberry pie and ice cream.

Best Refried Beans Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
September 10, 2022July 12, 2023

This is the best refried beans recipe because it is easy, healthy and has more flavor than anything we have ever had before.

Best Hurricane Drink Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
August 16, 2022July 12, 2023

The Best Hurricane Drink Recipe to make Mini Hurricanes for Mardi Gras.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Without Butter

by Lisa LeCoump
August 11, 2022September 2, 2023

We made this chocolate chip cookie recipe without butter to make these cookies healthier and with a smaller carbon footprint. We used walnut oil instead. It is also one of 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.

POG Drink Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
August 9, 2022July 18, 2023

A POG drink recipe – It’s easy to make POG from fresh squeezed tropical fruit juice instead of buying it in a can.

Best Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
July 29, 2022July 12, 2023

This recipe makes the best ice cream – chocolate ice cream with a peanut butter swirl. It is incredibly smooth and creamy, but it’s a quick and easy method.

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“While traveling the world and looking for the best ingredients, we found that many producers who care about quality also care about sustainability. We discovered that by choosing the best ingredients we had reduced our carbon footprint. A few more changes, and we cut our carbon footprint in half! Then we realized that if everyone did this, 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.