Bettie Speck

For over 40 years Bettie has owned her own business and found working for herself allowed time to raise her two daughters and adopt and raise over a dozen cats and dogs. A household of animals lovers, Bettie and her daughters have been vegetarians for two decades.

Bettie has been cooking and baking her entire life saving favorite recipes and perfecting her own. She has found that recipes her family enjoyed that featured meat could be converted for a vegetarian lifestyle along with the same comfort and taste while not supporting the slaughter practices of the beef and poultry industry.

“For my 21st birthday, my friend, Linda Hardy, baked my a birthday cake from scratch. I’d never seen anyone do that before; everyone I knew used cake mixes. That was the beginning of my love of baking. My favorite dish my mother made was Tuna Tulips using Bisquick, but otherwise from scratch. When I was first married we lived with my in-laws. My mother-in-law, Trudy Speck, learned to cook the old fashioned way, from scratch, and taught me. I will be including the recipes I learned from them, as well as those, I adjusted to make them my own, like my potato soup recipe. “