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.

Pulled Pork Po Boy - Food Gypsy

Pulled Pork Po Boy

The Pulled Pork Po Boy is like spicy, saucy bacon-y goodness on a nice chunk of French bread. In Louisiana, Po Boy sandwiches come in a couple different flavours; there’s fried, featuring battered shrimp, crawfish or oysters and then there’s pulled, featuring pork, cooked low, slow and saucy.

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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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Bacon Waffle Grilled Cheese - Food Gypsy

Bacon Waffle Grilled Cheese Sammich

Take a buttermilk waffle and make it into a Buttermilk Black Pepper Bacon Waffle, coat it with butter, melt a half cup of cheese between two slabs of bacon-y divoted goodness… that my friends is a Bacon Waffle Grilled Cheese Sammich.

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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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Coconut Shrimp, Roatan - Food Gypsy

Coconut Shrimp

Recipe by reader request. The fruit of the sea… coconut-ed. So easy. Try it at home. Compliments of The Thirsty Turtle, Bananarama Dive’s Eco Friendly Resort – West Bay Beach, Roatan Honduras.

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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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