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…

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Food – Vanilla – Chicken Stock – Horrors!

I have had to turn off the cooking shows.  I keep looking for one that does something other than season its desserts and sweets with vanilla flavoring and its savories with chicken stock. Ever wonder why describing how dishes taste you always have to add – they taste a little like chicken, don’t know why,…

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Madeleines – A Delicately Fabulous Tea Cookie

We bake Madeleines every day, yet by the end of the day they are gone! It is one of those light delicacies that won’t let you have just one.  And they stay in memory for long after they have been eaten. They are the tea cakes which give meaning to the reference to ‘delicacies’. They draw you…

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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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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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Eggs and Lime

copyright 2014 Bettina Network, inc. We made a wonderful discovery at breakfast – and we have to thank a guest from Mexico for the new information. Breakfast consisted of soft-boiled eggs in egg cups, which is one of our favorite breakfasts.  Our guest remarked that she loved soft-boiled eggs for breakfast, but was accustomed to…

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Lemon 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…

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A 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,…

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Bettina’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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