The Gypsy Chef

Devotion

It's happened

Vindaloo Basa - Basa is so cheap and it readily takes on any flavour you want to add. Tonight I used some of my Premala's Vindaloo Curry Sauce. Saute celery, onion, pla...

Rigatoni with Broccoli, Garlic & Breadcrumbs - Whenever I visit New York City with my friends and family, we often visit our favorite Italian restaurant there - Carmine's. The mid-town Manhattan locat...

Travelling - Cape Town International Airport Airports are funny places - almost like another world - maybe a kind of middle world in which one spends suspended time. B...

STEAMED CHOCOLATE CAKE ~ - First of all I wish all my friends from blog land and the real world and my dear blog visitors who celebrate Christmas a *Merry Christmas*. This cake ...

Lille, Aux Moules, and a Sink - A visit to Lille in Northern France, in search of waffles, chocolate, mussels and French fries..and a new sink.

It Was Nice While It Lasted... - The inevitable and perhaps obvious is here. I've decided to stop blogging. If the lack of posts was any indication, this was a long time coming. Altho...

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French Fridays with Dorie... Quatre-Quarts....a little late - With all the best intentions in the world I baked this cake last week...in time to post for French Fridays with Dorie. But the pictures never got to the c...

February~ - At the time I am posting this..we are a few hours shy of February~ Le mois des coups de coeur~ Our eldest grandson..he is the ripe old age of 6..the first...

Game of the Goose Meatballs, 3 Different Ways - Game of the Goose, American,1851 Strong Museum *For good society is but a game,* *'The royal game of Goose,' as I may say, * *Where every body has some s...

Hazelnut Sponge Cake - Finally, I've finished reading cover to cover the first of my Christmas cookbooks. My kids gave me lots of them and it's going to take me a while to get ...

Stir Fried Butter Mushroom Salad ~ Side Dish - Hey, Happy Chinese New Year everyone! It's the year of DRAGON. My year of birth is Rooster but I called myself a Pheonix. lol! *HAHAHA.*....Dragon & Pheo...

a little tea time... - aka tray on the move~ i took these pics last week, yes, you will *still* see my christmas tree below... last week our tiny sea dream ...

Donna Hay Photo Challenge - Simone of Junglefrog Cooking has a monthly photo challenge. She picks a photo (and recipe) from Donna Hay Magazine and challenges us to replicate the photo a...

potato chip cookies - Potato Chip Cookies Adapted from Emeril Shockingly, we actually felt that these cookies needed more salt; just a smidge. Sounds crazy, right? If you’re usi...

NOT COMPLAINING....but where do we store all these culinary gadgets? - *Trying to find space to store all the magic tools of the trade has been a challenge...* *Endless boxes...brimming with cooking treasures....still to be un...

Stuffed artichoke bottoms - Certain kitchen jobs are just not fun: Like plucking artichokes. Fortunately, the bottoms are available in all Middle-Eastern shops in the US or Canada and...

Baked Courgettes Recipe and India pics - It has been so long since I posted a recipe, in fact I believe this is the first recipe of 2011. Round courgettes which are lightly steamed then stuffed...

Lidia's chicken, plus a really good day - *Friends with recipes: *Besides stealing from other people's blogs, I like to borrow recipes from friends. They accumulate in my email with a special gre...

How Sequential Spelling stacks up to the different learning styles in our home. - By Heather Sanders. The first time I realized that different people learn information in different ways was my Junior year in college. This epiphany happen...

The Leprechaun's Favorite Soda Bread - [image: Photobucket] Have I ever told my lovelies that there is a wee leprechaun that runs around my hollow from time to time? He especially seems to like ...

Escargot in Mushroom Caps with Garlic Butter - I was trying to think of something simple to make for dinner the other night. Neither Moe or I were overly hungry as we had, had a late lunch. Looking t...

Peach Cookies for Rose-Anne - My daughter Christy and I made these delicious cookies in honor of my sister-in-law Rose-Anne, who passed away this past week after a valiant fight with ...