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…
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…
Maximum Mexican — Mexican Blackened Chicken with Jalapeno Black Beans & Rice and Caramelized Pineapple Salsa finished with Cilantro & Lime. When I pine for long white sand beaches of Mexico, I recall a flavour and make it my own…
Simple sides make weekday meals so much easier. This is one of our favourites just toss with olive oil, garlic and curry powder, and bang it in the oven and 20 minutes later; Curry Roasted Cauliflower. Cauliflower is one of those…
Lentils are a solid source of clean, plant based protein. This curry you can eat hot, as a stew or cold, blended as a zippy dip. This recipe is simple, fast, low fat and entirely plant based. We're big fans of the lentil in our…
The skies are blue and the snow is gone, it's time to start up the grill and get cookin'! Let's start the season off right with a household favorite, a Grilled Caesar Salad. A little twist on the original Caesar, we lighten it up…
It's cold. We've got snow up the wazoo and here comes Valentine's Day. For my money nothing says love quite like a bowl of Mushroom Risotto. It's a warm, starchy hug that you can wrap your whole body around. It…
Sweet Potato Succotash & Pear Glazed Pork Chops, another solo dinner at Chez Gypsy featuring autumn flavours. It's almost impossible not to make Looney Tunes references when motioning succotash "sweet sufferin' succotash!" It's not often I quote Sylvester the Cat.
Having a ball in the big shiny kitchen, in the last couple of weeks I've tied about five hundred of these adorable little vegetable bundles for weddings and swanky gala events. A great idea for easy entertaining.
Rosemary Apple Glazed Chicken with Dried Cranberries and Bacon Polenta. Perfect on a dark & stormy early autumn evening, as temperatures drop and comfort food comes to mind.
Fast and easy, recipe #67 on our list of things to do with leftover potatoes; Wild Mushroom Potato Hash. Perfect with anything fresh off the grill, steaks, chops or fish, and finishes in twenty minutes flat.
A quick green side for spring - Asparagus, Snap Pea, New Potato & Fiddlehead Sauteé. Serve warm or cold, a simple medley of spring produce.