Lunch & Small Bites

A collection of recipes to power through your day. Let’s lunch! Soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps, tacos, appetizers, hors d’oeuvres, snacks & small plates.

Asian Spring Rolls - Food Gypsy

Fresh Asian Spring Rolls

The secret to beautiful Asian Spring Rolls is the art of the perfect roll. These are a rice paper version; bright, fresh and packed with flavor, the deep fried variety features the same rolling technique with a different wrapper. Once you have this down you’re a spring-rolling machine.

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Pan Bagnat - Food Gypsy

Pain Bagnat – The Perfect French Picnic

After last week’s post on Salade Nicoise, we take a merry little detour to Pain Bagnat (literally translated: Wet Bread) which is that same Salade Nicoise, layered in a day-old sourdough roll, wrapped tight, put in the cooler overnight and the back of the car in the morning for the perfect picnic a la Provencal.

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Salade Nicoise - Food Gypsy

Salade Nicoise inspired by Julia Child

This week we join the many voices celebrating what would have been Julia Child’s 100th birthday in August of this year, with JC100. Starting with Salade Nicoise, from Child’s The Way to Cook, a light, fresh garden salad from the south of France.

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Russian Borscht, Beety & Meaty

Made with beets, cabbage, onions and three meats including a smokey kielbasa sausage, salt pork and a nice shank of beef, a good Russian Borscht is winter comfort food that is as rich in aroma and falvour as it is in colour. A soup from my eastern bloc roots.

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Welcome To My Kitchen!

Hi, I’m Cori. 
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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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