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Cooking Rice Elegantly!
What if Colonialism had not happened and we gradually moved to a world community – discovering new ideas, ways of doing things, different foods that we are used to eating and cooking, etc. instead of developing a society which claimed some foods and ways of cooking as superior and some to be shunned.? What a…
Read MoreWeight Control and Good Health for a Lifetime!
Look around – take a walk – go shopping – to the theatre – symphony – sports event and you will see many, many overweight people. How on earth did this happen! My mother’s generation didn’t share this overweightness. Many in my generation have gaining weight and battling that weight gain as a constant. In…
Read MoreA Japanese/New Orleans Creole Breakfast
I stumbled onto this breakfast, but it is one of the best yet. You do have to have a cosmopolitan taste for this – it is not ham, eggs and sweet breads. ……………………………MENU………………………………… Fresh, organic fruit – Satsuma Mandarins, if they are in season Grits (See recipe in Bettina Cookbook in this blog). Do not…
Read MoreGRITS/RICE – A Great Addition
Thanks for your recipe for Creole Grits. I would like to make an addition, which we have used for quite a long time and feel it has added to our family’s health and good looks:) Once the water has started to boil, add a heaping tablespoon of Organic Turmeric, preferably the kind with active curcumin…
Read MoreFood and Pharma Connected?
copyright 2014 Bettina Network, inc. We had another one of those breakfasts and we are all still reeling, having put different backgrounds, experience, education, parts of the world together we came up with a startling conclusion: The discussion centered around Bettina Network’s attempt to keep Bettina Homes as organic as possible – in cleaning, food,…
Read MoreGluten Problems??????????
copyright 2013 Bettina Network, inc. for Marceline Donaldson Many years ago I worked for The Pillsbury Company – for a brief time – with a long following law suit – which is the stuff of legend around my neighborhood. I offer that fact to you in the interest of full disclosure. One, of the many…
Read MoreUltra-Pasteurized = Ultra-Junk-Milk
copyright Bettina Network 2012 Today is very discouraging. I spent yesterday looking for organic milk and am discovering the good milk is being replaced all over the city by the ‘ultra-pasteurized’. It is as though stores are saying ‘we will carry organic milk, but we don’t think it will sell so we will stock the…
Read MoreThe “Perfect” Storm
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2012 How does a Bettina home survive a storm which threatens to down power lines, flood areas and generally disrupt life as we are accustomed to living it with all that we take for granted? To give you an idea of how we do it, what follows are a few tips…
Read MoreA Fantastic Diet for Good Health!
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2012 We have discovered, through many conversations with guests, an incredible diet to end all diets. We have put this together as we gleaned information a little at a time and experimented to make sure this is workable. It does work for a couple of us, but we aren’t guaranteeing, advising,…
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…
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