Monthly Archives: October 2016
Nettle Soup
Wear gloves when picking the nettle leaves! It is best to pick young tender leaves from an unpolluted area and away from roaming dogs. Also, avoid picking any herbs from the roadside because of exhaust fumes. Make sure you wash the leaves well.
Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 1 lb potatoes, peeled and diced
- 8 ozs tender nettle leaves
- 5 and 3/4 cups water
- Salt and pepper
- Grated nutmeg
Instructions:
Heat the oil in a large pan and add the oil, onion and potatoes. Cook gently over a low heat until soft but not browned (approx 5 minutes). Add the nettles, cover and cook for another 5 minutes Add water and bring to the boil. Simmer for 15-20 minutes until the vegetables are cooked Place in a food processor or push through a sieve until smooth. Season to taste with salt, pepper and nutmeg, then reheat just before serving.
From: Journey Folki
Tomato and Lentil Quick Soup
Ingredients:
- One tin of chopped tomatoes
- One tinful of water
- Two handfuls of lentils
Instructions:
- Add all the ingredients together in a pan and simmer.
- Add flavours – salt and pepper, a teaspoon of mixed herbs, fresh basil and or a spoon of pesto. Or a teaspoon of curry powder. And/or paprika. Or a bit of marmite.
- After about 15 mins simmering the lentils should be cooked.
One thing: when making lentil soup of any kind, it’s best to add salt after cooking the lentils, because otherwise they don’t seem to cook properly.
From: Journey Folki
Carrot Onion and Lemon Soup
Ingredients:
- One and a half pints of vegetable stock
- 1 Carrot finely chopped
- 1 Small onion finely chopped
- 2 Bay leaves
- 2 Sticks of celery chopped
- Salt and pepper (a pinch of each)
- A sprig of thyme
Method:
- Add all this to a saucepan, bring to the boil and then simmer for 20 minutes.
- Add the scraped rind of a lemon (just the yellow part) to the soup, along with half the juice of a squeezed lemon.
- Serve straight away with a garlic roll/stick.
From: Journey Folki
Gypsy Toast
Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- Pinch of salt & pepper
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 2 slices of bread
- 2 tablespoons oil, butter or lard
Instructions:
- Beat the eggs lightly and season with salt & pepper
- Add the milk
- Soak the bread slices in the mixture
- Heat the oil, butter or lard in a frying pan and when hot add the soaked bread
- Fry until crisp, turning occasionally.
From: Journey Folki
Healing Chicken Soup
Ingredients:
- Quarter of a chicken
- 2 Pints water/vegetable stock
- 1 Large leek
- 1 Onion
- Half a cup rice
How to:
First, boil the chicken for an hour on a very low heat with salt and pepper. Remove the chicken, then add the leek, onion and rice and boil for another 15 minutes.
The chicken meat can be chopped and added to the soup if you wish. This is guaranteed to get rid of a cold.
From: Journey Folki
Gypsy Style Turkey Soup with Dumplings
Ingredients:
You can use your turkey leftovers after Thanksgiving dinner or even buy turkey drumsticks which are huge and very cheap. If you have any leftover sliced turkey meat add it after you’ve boiled the carcass and taken the meat off of the bones.
How to:
- Boil the turkey carcass for about two hours,
- Add salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Add herbs (your choice), preferably fresh.
- Add some pearl barley after the first hour, just a handful or so.
- Drain the liquid from the carcass and pick the meat off of the bones.
- Now add the sliced meat (if you have some).
- Add chopped carrots, and turnips to liquid.
- Cook for 20 minutes.
- Make dumplings.
- Add them and cook for 30 minutes on stove.
- Add sliced leeks and a handful of frozen peas.
Serve with a loaf of fresh white or brown bread.
Disclaimer: I found this recipe back in 2006 and didn’t make a note of where I found it. If you know the author, let me know so I can give credit and a link.
Sármi
Mix ground beef or chopped ham with cooked rice, salt, black pepper and jalapeños (or similar hot peppers) into a thick paste. You may add an egg if it’s too thick. Take the biggest leaves from a cabbage making sure not to break or tear them; dip them in boiling water to soften them, then wrap each leaf around some of the filling mixture into a sealed roll. Secure by sewing or simply stick a toothpick through, and simmer for about an hour in tomato soup.
Found at: The Patrin Web Journal
Rhymed List of Gypsy Verbs
To dick and jin,
To bikn and kin;
To pee and hal,
And av and jal;
To kair and poggra,
Shoon and rokra;
To caur and chore,
Heta and cour,
Moar and more,
To drab and dook,
And nash on rook;
To pek and tove,
And sove and rove,
And nash on poove;
To tardra oprey,
And chiv aley;
To pes and gin,
To mang and chin,
To pootch and pukker,
Hok and dukker;
To besh and kel,
To del and lel,
And jib to tel;
Bitch, atch, and hatch,
Roddra and latch;
To gool and saul,
And sollohaul;
To pand and wustra,
Hokta and plastra,
Busna and kistur,
Maila and grista;
To an and riggur;
To pen and sikker,
Porra and simmer,
Chungra and chingra,
Pude and grommena,
Grovena, gruvena;
To dand and choom,
Chauva and rom,
Rok and gare,
Jib and mer
With camova,
And paracrova,
Apasavello
And mekello,
And kitsi wasror,
Sore are lavior,
For kairing chomany,
In jib of Romany.
From: Romano Lavo-Lil by George Borrow 1841
Home Sweet Home Spell
Just as Romanies blessed and protected their vardos, so you can bless your new home and protect it from burglary and fire.
- Sprinkle salt around the perimeter
- Or plant garlic around the boundary.
- You can also pray for a circle of gold light for protection and a circle of blue light for healing to be placed around the home.
Disruptive neighbors who upset the harmony of your home can be tamed quite simply. Place small hand mirrors on windowsills facing their home. These reflect back whatever they are sending out to you if you say, “Return to sender.” If no anger is attached to your actions, your neighbors will respond to your influence without realizing why.
From: The Good Spell Book
Spell for a Windy Day
To stir up the wind to dry washing on a line,
stand with your back to the breeze and exhale facing the washing.
To make it less windy,
inhale and blow the wind back in the direction it is blowing from.
From: The Good Spell Book
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I think it's time to go shopping... maybe even buy some really cool stuff at my online shops!!