Secret Recipes
In honor of May, being National Hamburger Month, and Thursday, being National Beef Burger Day AND National Hamburger Day, here’s Mom’s copycat recipe for… #National Hamburger Month #National Beef Burger Day #National Hamburger Day LUMP’S GOLLY BURGERS By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – Best Of The Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. […]
Thank God it’s Monday, again. I always look forward to every Monday – even Memorial Day, despite its solemn reason. Mondays are my happy place, as well as my 52 Chances a year, in which I get to share Memories of My Mom with you. #TheRecipeDetective #NationalMemorialDay As the last Monday in May (for 2026), […]
In honor of TODAY, being National Cheese Soufflé Day, AND May, being National Egg Month and American Cheese Month, here’s Mom’s copycat recipe for… #NationalCheeseSouffleDay #NationalEggMonth #AmericanCheeseMonth Betty Crocker Style ‘Golden Dream Cheese Souffle’ By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Monthly Cookbook of Secret Recipes (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; July-December 1981, p. […]
Once again, TGIM. I look forward to every Monday, for sharing Memories of My Mom with you. I hope this blog creates a happy Monday for you. #TheRecipeDetective #NationalVisitYourRelativesDay #NationalRoadTripDay Today is National Visit Your Relatives Day and Friday is National Road Trip Day. Additionally, next weekend is Memorial Day Weekend, which is generally considered […]
In honor of May, being National Egg Month, here are TWO of Mom’s copycat recipes for… #NationalEggMonth EGGS BENEDICT & HOLLANDAISE – Like Brennan’s By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – Best Of The Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 136). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret […]
Thank God it’s Monday, again. I always look forward to every Monday. They’re my 52 Chances a year, in which I get to share Memories of My Mom with you. Therefore, have a happy Monday. #TheRecipeDetective #NationalEtiquetteWeek #NationalDecencyDay Today is the start of the second full business week in May (for 2026), which also makes […]
In honor of May, being American Cheese Month, here’s two of Mom’s secret recipes in one, for… #AmericanCheeseMonth CHEESE WISH (FROM BLENDER WHITE SAUCE) By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – Best Of The Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 273). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret […]
Again, Happy Monday. I always look forward to every Monday. They’re my 52 Chances a year, in which I get to share Memories of My Mom with you. #TheRecipeDetective #NationalCartoonistsDay Last month was National Humor Month but it can still be celebrated this week, as tomorrow is National Cartoonists Day and cartoons happen to be […]
Happy National Preservation Month & National Scrapbook Day Eve. Preservation is the act of keeping something valued intact and in its original state, protecting it from damage or decay, for the conservation of history and more. Scrapbooks are where Mom kept her personal “valuables” – letters and cards from relatives and close friends, pictures and […]
INTRODUCTION Mom was very creative and funny. She designed a few different satirical editorial columns in the 1960s and 1970s that were geared toward working homemakers like herself (or those who just wanted to laugh at life), mailing out samples to over 300 newspapers. Within a year, she was steadily writing two different columns (“No […]