Secret RecipesHi! I'm Laura Emerich and Gloria Pitzer, the ORIGINAL Secret Recipe Detective, is my mom. This website is lovingly dedicated to her memory and legacy.
Happy Monday, everyone; and happy November, too! Thank you for visiting and… The fall/winter holidays are upon us now. For many, the countdown to “the holidays” began with the onset of the autumn solstice. Now that Halloween has passed us by, it’s only 24 more days until Thanksgiving! About four weeks after that, is the […]
CHOCOLATE ALMOND BARK – Like Sanders! By Gloria Pitzer, part of her original 200 recipes collection, developed in the early-to-mid 1970s. [As seen in Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – The Best of the Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 233).] When you look at all the marvelous candies that Sanders offers, be sure to look […]
Beginagain’s Awesome Potato Cheese Soup By Gloria Pitzer, as seen on her Fall Media Free Offer sheet (2002-2004) Ingredients: 14-oz. can drained, whole potatoes (cut up) 2 cans (10-oz. each) Campbell’s Chicken Broth 10-oz. can cream of chicken soup 12-oz. tub whipped cream cheese (original) 1 TB dry minced onion 16 square saltine crackers, blender-ground […]
Mrs. Meadow’s Chocolate Chip Cookies [*with options] By Gloria Pitzer, Gloria Pitzer’s Secret Fast Food Recipes (Secret Recipes, St. Clair, MI; March 1985, p. 86) Ingredients: 2 sticks butter (1/2 lb.) 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup brown sugar 3 eggs 3 cups self-rising flour 12-oz. bag chocolate chips Instructions: Cream together the butter, sugars […]
No Egg Pudding Cake By Gloria Pitzer, “Cookbook Corner” (Happy Newspaper Features, Algonac, MI; 1973) Ingredients: 1 cup flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. salt 3/4 cup sugar 2 TB unsweetened cocoa 1/2 cup milk 2 TB oil 1 cup broken walnuts 1 cup brown sugar, combined with 1/2 cup additional unsweetened cocoa 1 […]
Pepper Casserole By Gloria Pitzer, “Cookbook Corner” (Happy Newspaper Features, Algonac, MI; 1973) Ingredients: 1 1/2 lbs. hamburger 1 pkg. dry onion soup mix 4 green peppers [halved, with seeds & ribs removed] 2 lbs. canned stewed tomatoes 1 cup celery, sliced thin 2 vegetable bouillon cubes, dissolved in 1 C. boiling water 2 […]
Happy Monday and, of course, happy National Chocolate Day! #NationalChocolateDay According to NationalDayCalendar.com, today is National Chocolate Day and was created by the National Confectioners Association. There are other chocolate celebrations throughout the year – just five weeks ago, I discussed the celebration of National White Chocolate Day. As I mentioned in that blog entry, “Let […]
Happy Monday and happy National Food Day! #NationalFoodDay As I said at the end of last week’s blog, today is National Food Day; plus, it’s also Pumpkin Cheesecake Day! See the end of this blog for a copy of Mom’s sugar-free recipe for the latter. Part of what started Mom’s career as the Recipe DetectiveTM […]
Happy Monday! And happy Autumn too! The days are getting shorter and colder, while the leaves of the trees are getting more colorful each day! Unfortunately, the painter’s palette of nature doesn’t last for long and, soon, all the colors will be gone, blowing in the wind! #EatBetterEatTogetherMonth At the end of my last blog […]
Happy Monday to everyone! It’s October and the final quarter of 2019 has begun its countdown. Earlier this year, I wrote a blog entry called “Spring into Cleaning” [March 25, 2019]. Well, now, it’s time to discuss the seasonal cleaning events that a lot of us face in the fall… at least, in Michigan and the […]