Dinner

Delicious dinner recipes, from one pot family meals to easy entertaining. Fresh twists on classic recipes and travel inspired favourites. We break it down to make your life, easy!

Thanksgiving Turkey - Food Gypsy

Thanksgiving Your Way & notes on How to Cook a Turkey

Who says Thanksgiving has to be all about turkey? It’s your Thanksgiving, make your own rules (you rebel you). What says Fall Feast in your kitchen? You’re not bound by convention, you’re a freethinker. (But, just in case we’ve got you covered on that whole How To Cook a Turkey thing.)

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Tomato Sauce & Meatballs - Food Gypsy

Spaghetti & Meatballs

It’s comfort food season, a chilly day found me in the kitchen whipping-up a batch of spaghetti & meatballs, singing “On Top of Spaghetti” and pondering the nature of the sobriety of those writing children’s songs.

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Burger El Greco - Food Gypsy

Burger el Greco

Inspired by Greece it’s not a hamburger, but a lamb burger favoured with oregano and garlic, punched up with spinach and salted by feta. It borrows from keftedes or Greek meatballs, made with beef, garlic, oregano and mint or our Burger el Greco.

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Thai Chili Chicken - Food Gypsy

Thai Chili Chicken ~ a lá Gypsy

Sometimes it’s the simplest things that strike a cord. Like this pretty little Thai Sweet Chili Chicken. Didn’t intend to post because two ingredients; “chicken” and “jar o’ sauce” does not a “recipe” make, but it’s a solid thecnique for the grill and using it, you’ll get beautiful results every time.

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Thai_Summer_Satay_Salad - Food Gypsy

Thai Summer Satay Salad

Cold rice vermicelli salad with bright fresh veg, dressed in a lime, rice wine vinaigrette, (totally delish) chicken satay, finished with peanut sauce. Authenticity and intensity. Eat goooooood.

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Braised Short Ribs - Food Gypsy

Braised Short Ribs a la Gypsy – Recipe

This isn’t a complicated dish. It’s simple, hardworking food. Beef short ribs are an underrated cut of meat. At first glace they’re just short, fatty, bone-in chunks of beef. But treat them with respect and a bit of love and you have rich, flavorful, tender fall-off-the-bone, beefy goodness.

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Lamb Vindaoo - Food Gypsy

Lamb Vindaloo Recipe

Yes, it’s spicy. Lamb vindaoo is a spicy Indian stew and a favorite in most curry houses, where you’ll often find it with added potatoes. No potatoes here my friend just tangy, spiced lamb marinaded and cooked to perfection.

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Chicken Soup - Food Gypsy

Chicken Soup Recipe, Mother Nature’s Penicillin

It’s cold and flu season; sniffles and sore throats and sick days. Some nasty little bug bit me hard this weekend which meant cough syrup and pajama time. Nothing quite so sexy as a fever. Oh yea, I’m hot Baby! *cough, cough, cough* Time for a big bowl of nature’s remedy… chicken soup.

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Welcome To My Kitchen!

Hi, I’m Cori. 
Nice to meet you!

Food professional and former innkeeper, this is where I play with food. I believe food (and LIFE) doesn’t have to be complicated, to be good.

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