🌿 About The Silver Sprout
Where curiosity meets comfort — and everything aims to be delicious.
A Place for Curious Cooks, Seasoned Souls, and Fresh Starts
The Silver Sprout began with a simple belief: we’re all still growing — and growth should taste good.
Even in our silver seasons, we’re sprouting new habits, new flavors, and new ways of caring for ourselves. This space is for anyone who wants to eat well, live intentionally, and savor the beautiful, complicated, awe‑filled middle chapters of life.
If you’re plant‑curious, plant‑friendly, or plant‑flirting, you’re in the right place. Let’s make this delicious.
Where Wisdom Meets Whimsy
The Silver Sprout is grounded in real‑world experience — decades in healthcare, years of plant‑forward cooking, and a lifetime of learning how to nourish a body and a spirit.
But it’s also playful. Because food should be fun. And life should have a little sparkle.
Here, you’ll find a blend of:
- warmth
- wisdom
- whimsy
- practicality
- and a pinch of cheeky charm
It’s a place where you can breathe, explore, and try something new without pressure.
Plant‑Forward, Not Perfection
Around here, plant‑forward cooking means:
- flavor first
- comfort always
- whole ingredients when possible
- flexibility forever
No guilt. No gold stars. Just good food and gentle encouragement. Delicious, always.
A Culinary Style That Travels
The Silver Sprout’s kitchen is rooted in technique, curiosity, and global inspiration. You’ll find flavors that wander widely:
- Mediterranean brightness
- Asian pantry magic
- Italian comfort
- Middle Eastern warmth
- Latin zest
- And the everyday American table, reimagined with plants
It’s worldly without being fussy. It’s approachable without being boring. It’s plant‑forward cooking that feels like home — wherever home happens to be.
What You’ll Find Here
This is a space for nourishment — body, mind, and spirit. You’ll discover:
- Honest reviews of plant‑based products
- Practical, approachable recipes
- Globally inspired techniques made friendly
- Essays on aging with awe and intention
- Tips for building a plant‑forward kitchen
- Stories that remind you you’re not alone
It’s real life, seasoned with humor and heart.
Why “The Silver Sprout”?
Because it captures the whole spirit of this space.
Silver honors the wisdom, resilience, and sparkle that come with age. Sprout honors the curiosity, courage, and possibility that never leave us.
Together, they tell the story of who we are becoming — seasoned, sprouting, and still beautifully growing.
The Heart Behind the Sprout
The Silver Sprout is created by Lisa, a Certified Vegan Chef and Certified Plant‑Based Chef whose decades in cardiopulmonary rehab, disease management, prevention, and quality improvement shaped her belief in small steps, gentle guidance, and joyful living.
Her philosophy is simple: Let’s make this delicious — in the kitchen and in life.
Learn more about her here: About Lisa
Welcome to the Table
Whether you’re here for recipes, reflections, or a little spark of inspiration, I’m glad you found your way to The Silver Sprout.
Pull up a chair. Stay awhile. Let’s make life delicious — one taste at a time.
Cooking Videos – Click here!
Plant-Rich Podcasts – Listen here!Â
Books and Products available on the website store or Amazon:
Veg Around the World – released 2022. A Plant-based Collection of 50 Global-Inspired Recipes. Softbound only.
My Plants-First Workbook – released 2022. An 85-page journal of self-exploration and discovery to help you eat more plants! Softbound only.
Food Elevated, 100 Recipes for Colorful Cooking from the Colorado Front Range  – released in 2021. Hardbound and softbound.
Plant-based Test Drive -released 2021. A 44 – page self-guided tour and examination of testing a plant-based lifestyle. Paperback and e-book.Â
21 Days of Sweet Kale Salad Mix – revised 2020. 21 recipes to bring more cruciferous vegetables into your daily life. Paperback and e-book.
Compassion Mantra Cards – Need a lift? Lisa shares 14 thoughtful compassion mantras for daily use
Home Emergency Preparedness Guide – home and estate management organizing tool. Hard copy and e-files.
Managing the End….to Bridge the Beginning  – caregiving tips for end-of-life care and estate management. Ebook only.
Local Writings and Featured In….
Lisa Boesen, vegan chef and cookbook author, celebrates plant-based eating for health – Greeley Tribune, Nov 11, 2022
Community Supported Agriculture – NoCo Style – Bounty, Spring 2022, pgs 6-7
Let’s Dance! Swing, Jive, and Sway to Better Health! – Fifty & Better, Spring 2022, pgs 24 -26
Plan Your Staycation – Fifty & Better, Winter 2021, page 24,25
The Versatile Squash  – Bounty, Fall 2021, page 4,5
Dance of the Pollinators Bounty – Spring 2021, page 4
Chef it Up – Live Naturally Magazine – Nov 2021
Lisa has provided health and wellness speaking services and/or tastings to the following organizations, among others:
- Longmont Senior Center – plant-based workshop and tastings
- Osher Lifelong Learning Institute –Â plant-based course and honey-tasting course
- Morgan Stanley Finance –Â client-tastings
- Rocky Mountain Olive Oil Company –Â presentation and tasting
- Spice and Tea Exchange Fort Collins – presentation and tasting
- Gardens at Spring Creek – plant-based workshop and virtual cooking class
- Fort Collins Senior Center – plant-based workshop
- Illinois WIC. State Conference – Springfield, IL. Keynote Speaker
- ECCLPS – Sterling, CO. Self-care workshop
- USDA – APHIS. Fort Collins, CO. Guest speaker
- Arvada Senior Living – Arvada, CO. Guest Speaker
- Greater Houston Area Red Cross
- National Association for Dermatology Administrators and Managers. National Meeting
- Georgia Society for Respiratory Care, State Meeting
- Texas Society of Medical Assistants, State Meeting
- Oklahoma Society for Respiratory Care, State Conference
- Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy – National Conference
Popular Workshops and Seminars
You’re Never Too Old to Eat Kohlrabi! – How to jumpstart a plant-based lifestyle with a touch of history, self-exploration, and a two-week test drive workbook!
Spices and Herbs and Plants – Oh my! Tour of the nuances of cuisines and palates with a plant-based lifestyle.
A Plant-Rich Trip to Provence – Learn easy travel tips while traveling through the Southern French countryside enjoying plant-rich Provencal cuisine
Veg Around the World – Explore new cooking techniques, spices, grains and produce to demonstrate exciting plant-based recipes
The Bees and Me – learning from the earth and its wonderful resources
 Put some PEP in Your Life! – expecting the best while preparing for the worst. How to create your own emergency preparedness home management
 Perfect for –
Women’s Groups ♦ Health and Wellness ♦ Community-based Programs ♦ Retreats
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