Cider Braised Pulled Pork – A Winter’s Feast

Pulled Cider Pork & sides - Food Gypsy

Take a couple of bottles of good, full-bodied apple cider, a pork picnic shoulder, a good spice rub and a few hours in the oven and you’ve got juicy, tender Cider Braised Pulled Pork. Nothing says winter quite like the combined flavours of apple and pork. Living in an area of Canada where apples, and […]

Sweet Potato Fork Mash with Brown Butter – Simple Sides

Sweet Potato Fork Mash with Brown Butter - Food Gypsy

Nothing could be easier, or simpler, than a little Sweet Potato Fork Mash with Brown Butter.   Ready in less less than fifteen minutes, it’s a simple side dish for a complicated life. Butter is a beautiful thing.  From fresh to clarified to brown and even black (used mostly in Cajun cooking) it’s one of […]

Wilted Baby Kale – Simple Sides

Wilted Baby Kale - Food Gypsy

Weeknight dinners call for fast, easy cooking.  Packed with vitamins B6, A and C, plus potassium,  iron, magnesium and calcium, kale is one of nature’s super foods, Wilted Baby Kale is barely cooked, leaving all that nutrition intact. Most of us are familiar with kale in it’s mature state, but now mainstream grocery stores are starting to carry what before […]