SPRING RECIPES

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

Homemade Kefir Instant Pot Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
March 4, 2022July 12, 2023

Kefir is a cultured milk product, similar to buttermilk, with lots of nutrients and probiotics. It’s easy to make homemade Kefir in the Instant Pot.

Pain a l’Ancienne French Bread Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
July 2, 2021August 2, 2023

This Pain a l’Ancienne French bread recipe is now our master recipe for French bread, baguettes, ciabatta and pizza. A traditional method that is easy, foolproof and makes a bread that rivals the bread we found in France and the pizza in Italy.

Edible Flowers

by Lisa LeCoump
June 9, 2021July 12, 2023

Many of the Plants in Our Garden Produce Edible Flowers.

“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.