Entries from November 2008

November 28, 2008

Cure for the Common Leftover

Few things in this world are as delicious, and easy to make, as a baked potato. Your cooks are sure you’ve had your fair share of them – in restaurants, where they have been sitting in tin foil, heated through for hours. Or maybe off the grill, or heaven forbid, from the microwave. We have [...]

November 27, 2008

Pennsylvania and Some Homemade Pumpkin Pie

Every  year for Thanksgiving, I head to my parents house for my mom’s famous frozen pumpkin pie – or rather, Sara Lee’s famous frozen pumpkin pie. Which is … lacking, to be kind about it. While there are always other offerings – I can name quite a few cheesecakes that I’ve slaved over for this [...]

November 26, 2008

You’re late

Dinner is finished. Kitchen closed.
It was soup night. Seventeen bean and barley soup mix from Trader Joe’s. But you missed it, so no soup for you.
First of all, welcome to the Feaston cooking blog. It’s pronounced Feast-in, like Easton, Pa., where your cooks live. Bear with us while we spice up the flavor of our [...]