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Best Recipes with Maple Syrup

by Lisa LeCoump
March 10, 2023April 11, 2023

Our best recipes with maple syrup – These recipes feature the best ways to take advantage of the unique flavor and properties of maple syrup.

Best Sablé Cookie Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
January 11, 2023May 14, 2023

For the best French Sablé Cookie recipe, also called Sablés pour le Thé, or French Tea Sablés, start with the very best ingredients. This is a basic recipe for French butter cookies that opens up a world of possibilities.

Confiture de Lait (Dulce de leche) Recipe in an Instant Pot

by Lisa LeCoump
October 31, 2022April 19, 2023

Using an Instant Pot is a really easy way to make confiture de lait

Best Refried Beans Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
September 10, 2022March 7, 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 Russian Tea Cakes Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
June 15, 2022March 29, 2023

We created the best Russian Tea Cakes recipe made with browned butter, toasted pecans and maple syrup, and then double rolled in powdered sugar.

Kefir Instant Pot Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
March 4, 2022February 28, 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.

Instant Pot Yogurt Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
January 9, 2022March 2, 2023

This Yogurt recipe or Yoghurt, is easy to make in an Instant Pot, you just need to know if it is mesophilic or thermophilic

A Collection of Photos from Our White Garden

by Lisa LeCoump
December 12, 2021March 2, 2023

An Elegant Garden with Drought Resistant Plants

Caramel Turtle Cookie Recipe

by Lisa LeCoump
December 5, 2021March 2, 2023

Our Caramel Turtle Cookie Recipe is a good way to use up leftover Halloween candy – sort of a Nightmare before Christmas cookie

Matsoni Yogurt in an Instant Pot

by Lisa LeCoump
November 22, 2021March 2, 2023

Making Matsoni Yogurt with an Instant Pot Yogurt Recipe and Temperatures for Homemade Yogurt

“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.