Medjool Date Cake for Breakfast!

This is a fantastic breakfast cake – which makes it a very special ending to good food, great conversation and learning serendipitously from those at a Bettina Network Table. We share it with you and hope you enjoy this as much as we do.  We do, however, have to give credit where it is due.…

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English Biscuits for Tea

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2016 for Marceline Donaldson Tea time is one of my favorite times of the day.  And what helps it to be favorite is what is served. Not all tea times are equal.  Some are fantastic and some are so bad you just want to forget they happened. One of my favorite…

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A 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…

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Bettina’s Fried Chicken – the Ultimate Recipe

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2015 This is fried chicken the way Grandmother made it.  And remember – taste happened in Grandmother’s recipes.  Todays’ processed food and processed food recipes have to use lots of salt and sugar to make their food taste.  Grandmother used very little sugar in anything and even less salt and the…

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Marceline’s Brown Biscuits

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2015 Named by a guest, these ‘biscuits’ are easy to make and they destroy the marketing mythology that cooking and baking are difficult and one must, instead, decamp to the local store to buy the instant variety of anything because we don’t have the time or knowledge enough to cook – we…

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Water – Water – Everywhere!

From a New Orleans group of folks comes the following advice: – (we haven’t tested it, only pass it along for your use and feedback.  As you can tell, folks added what they knew as this email on water went from person to person, hope you will do the same.  We could exhaust human knowledge…

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Your Bettina Kale Chips Recipe

Hi folks, I have been trying your recipe along with the recipe of others for Kale Chips. That is a hard thing to do – although it sounds as though it should be easy.  To get the seasoning right is the key. I suggest some changes to your original recipe which is in your Bettina…

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GRITS/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…

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GRITS – Creole Style

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2014 – by Marceline Donaldson I have had several requests for my grits recipe.  Sorry it has taken so long to respond, but I really didn’t want to share this family secret. I have two recipes that I hold close. One is the oyster dressing recipe for Thanksgiving turkey that I…

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