Bettina’s Cookbook
An Incredible Snack – Bettina Style
copyright 2013 Bettina Network, inc. We discovered an unbelievable snack as we roamed the country looking for families/individuals wanting to use their houses for bed & breakfast. It is basically popcorn, but such popcorn should be the food of the gods. First – in a saucepan, preferably glass i.e. A Corning pot – put one…
Read MoreLemon Pudding Cake
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2012 A guest wrote to us with the following request: “We had the perfect breakfast dessert at one of your homes. It was called a “Lemon Pudding Cake”. Could we have the recipe? Didn’t think of asking the host family for the recipe until we got home and destressed from the…
Read MoreBettina’s Tapioca Pudding
copyright 2012 Bettina Network, inc. A long-known comfort food. We have hearkened back to memories of childhood when desserts were homemade and not full of so many of the non-food ‘stuff’ they now contain. Organic Tapioca is the basis for this pudding. I searched through many recipe books and came to the conclusion that…
Read MoreGinger/Maple Syrup/Popcorn
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2012 We discovered a great way to make popcorn – almost by accident. And isn’t that the way all great things happen? Does that mean all of us – human beings – are accidental creations? Organic ginger is what started us on the road to this fantastic snack. Healthy, quick to…
Read MoreA Wonderful Concord Christmas Story
copyright Bettina Network, inc. for Barbara Marden 2011 A few days before Christmas I was giving a friend’s out of town visitor a tour of the house. My friends six year old son David was with us and did he get excited when I showed him a secret place to store treasures. It was in…
Read MoreAnother Secret Exposed!
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2011 The request for my Thanksgiving stuffing recipe is a difficult one to fill. It is really my grandmother’s and to sit down and even just think about it brings tears to my eyes and many memories of my early youth. Thanksgiving was a fun day at our house. My grandmother…
Read MoreThanksgiving at a Bettina Bed & Breakfast Home
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2011 We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and I would like to write a blog about it. Hope you find this up to your standards, kiddo! We decided to do the “Bettina” thing and invite the guests staying with us to join us for Thanksgiving Dinner. It happens all over the Bettina…
Read MoreBettina’s Banana Bread
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2011 From a bed and breakfast guest: “I had banana bread at the bed & breakfast home where I stayed and it was unbelievably good. I must have the recipe. I asked at the home and they told me to write to Bettina’s Blog. Well, I’m writing – now let’s have…
Read MoreHigh Blood Pressure!
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2011 “Hi everybody! I am a new host family in the Bettina Network and this is my first blog. I didn’t think anything would happen to make me want to write a blog. I am a quiet, unassuming person and generally go about the business serving rather than joining in the…
Read MoreA Healthy Very Quick Breakfast
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2011 I want to share with you something we have started doing in the morning for breakfast when we have a guest who doesn’t have time for a sit-down meal, wants something healthy to keep him/her going during the day and is concerned about keeping healthy and ‘regular’ during their time…
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