home plates

This is my favorite thing in the local paper, The San Jose Mercury News. It's a weekly column on home cooking. People asking others for help finding recipes they have lost, and me catching up on American cooking knowledge.

It's not fancy food (the rest of the paper's weekly food section is smack full of that). It's the kind of food people made in the 1950's and 1960's, with lots of shortcuts using canned soup, and "cake-baking" in the refrigerator (=layers of crackers and chocolate, I think there is a Swedish version of that too).