As a Romany Gypsy i got to say the recipe u are doing is the correct orignal way using the few ingredients you have..used..water oxo cubes..potatoes..tomatoes..onion.bacon..u can add sausages but as a rule i only use bacon..very nice job tho...
My father was a Romanian Gypsy and this reminds me of a dish he used to make. It consist of one large onion, half a head of garlic, any kind of hot peppers such as jalapeno. For the protein well it varies from what mood he was in, from pork chops cut up into bite size pieces, or polish sausage, or steak, or use any combination you prefer. My dad mostly used pork chops. Fry about 2 pounds of pork chop in some olive oil, ( season with salt, white and black pepper and a little cayenne) then when u have a nice color on them throw in the onions and peppers for a couple of minutes, then add your garlic. Then add two 16 ounce cans of crushed tomatoes, about a half of glass of wine and a can of water ( use the empty tomato can) bring to a boil then reduce to low for about an hour or so. Then he would make what he called steamed potatoes, about a table spoon of olive oil 5 large potatoes sliced about an 1/8 inch thick and brown them on one side then flip them over and lightly brown the other side, then when they have color on them take about 2 or 3 tablespoons of water and pour into the potatoes and then cover with a lid repeat this step twice. Then take a serving of potatoes and place them in a bowl and pour some of that hot stew on top and it is absolutely delicious my friend! This is also a one pot meal, well except for the potatoes of course. I hope you try this Scott it is really delicious!
Romanians aren’t Gypsies. There are Romany Gypsies who live in Romania but they are not Romanian. Romanians are European. Romany Gypsies originate in India.
My aunt was a cook in a floating fish camp, that housed and fed up to 20-30 fishermen. Often a storm would brew up in mid-day and the boats would come in and call it a day. Faced with a bunch of grumbly, hungry, wet men and nothing prepared, my aunt said she always used the "onion secret". Frying up a big bunch of onions in bacon fat. The men would smell that she said and settle down, not bothering her until she could prepare a meal. She said it worked every time! Cheers.
+Thomas Tommy Good quality, no thrills and tummy filling food like this was always what Mum prepared for us. With 9 kids to feed and low income she was inventive and always smiled if we asked for a slice of bread to mop up the gravy. We knew we could not afford holidays or school trips but never felt poor in the way some did. I reckon your Mom and mine put a lot of love in those mealtimes and that makes them such good memories. Rob.
Yes it does make good memory's. My parents had 11 kids. I was the baby. I was a change of life baby. I have neces and nephews that are much older than me. I've watched most of my siblings and neceses and nephews pass away. I have 2 siblings left. Even lost one nephew that 7 months younger than me. Yes my mom cooked them same foods. I grew up on a mountain farm. We always had pigs. Sorry I took up so much space. Thank you for getting back to me. It means a lot to me. I enjoy your videos very much. Please keep them going. Thanks.
Mum made similar when I was little - she’s Irish - Made me want to jump into the telly and scoff. I’m a bread dipping freak. Tasty, simple, warming, cheap…and yes it is better the next day when all the flavours have developed..delicious. Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful! Peasant cookery is the foundation of so many "gourmet" dishes, and this is certainly one of them... this is really a "poor man's Cassoulet". Brilliant!
Actually it is not a peasant but a wander / traveling dish! Gypsies was nomadic peoples many times they did mercants (selling-buying) and because of this there is no gypsy food culture because the meats greens fruits etc always changed But most of gypsy food is hot pot also “grilled”/roasted food because it was simple and fast
@@seanbryant2848 it’s very not correct! Mostly in the european history! (I don’t know you are european or not btw) the things is changed a lot mostly in the medieval age! Also there was the cities ages (when the peoples live in the city again) and even the peasant laws changed a lot But Still mostly the merchants has money and sometimes they was rich like a minor noble like a baron (not speaking only gypsies i speak about every merchants) also they was musicians mostly and there is many historical scrolls and writes they play music in the royals and high nobles! In early med age the peasant had the worst life Lords nobles had the best And merchants wanders had around middle way Gypsies had mixture life sometimes got violence and punishing because their life style was a bit “dangerous” in that time (has no lords so they are free peoples they do what they want) Also peasant food always was the same! But wanders not! They always moved and between countries had very big difference what they can growing!
@@seanbryant2848 ok dude what you feel i just explain why travelers and peasant was not same 😋 (also c’mon dude i learned too much in the school for nothing? Let be honest 90% of knowledge is useless and forgotten and this is so disappointing…)
Easy dish well done you say it’s a Romany dish nice, my aunt bless yer is 86 yrs young and not Romany but Italian and she makes the same dish good meal trying folks 👍
Wow that looks absolutely delicious mate. Can't wait to give it a try and I know the whole family will love this one. As always thanks for bringing it to us Scott and thanks also for the oxo cube trick, I had no idea either lol.
We have this a lot but I was fetched up wiv it all in one pot no browning the sausages or bacon just put on to boil/simmer lovely wiv crusty bread n butter like ur way too must try it x
peeling potatoes/carrots just didn't happen in our family. was taught that's where the vitamins are at. love potato skins. this is the first dish I learned very young, with countless variations. it's magic. THANKS!!
I almost tried to smell that through my screen...I like how you just chop the onion and potato and get on with it..no fussing about trying to get it "perfect"....my pallet prefers it that way...my grandmother would be very proud of the way you cook Scott...keep keeping it real being yourself...peace
OMG, you're really living on the edge, my friend, with all those brown bits of flavor and those James Brown onions! I can practically taste it from here, but I really wish I was there to truly taste it.
damn, I wish I could have shown this to my late father, who was on a constant lookout for easy, simple recipes, I think he would have really loved this.
My grandfather was a Romany Gypsy. He saw my future grandmother being attacked by someone and saved her, they fell in love so he gave up the travelling life and settled down. I grew up eating food like this along with stuff that most people would turn their noses up at, such as hedgehogs, squirrels etc. He'd often get mushrooms and other stuff from the local woods and fields rather than buy them from a shop, can't get much fresher than picking your own.
Wow..I've had Iguana viste dish.. With white rice.. It was amazing.. Back in the old country where I came from.. Only once I did... I was about 7 years old ..
I cook this quite a lot when I go fishing/camping. If I have leftover cooked bacon or sausage at home I freeze it together and when there's a big enough bag, I take it out to feed a few of us with a joey grey. It always goes down a storm. Crusty bread is a necessity lol.
I don't know if you pick up comments this long after the original video but if you do, thanks a bunch for this. Made it tonight and all the superlatives that you used are fully justified, it's a killer dish, easy to make, fairly cheap, delicious and, weirdly there's loads more of it than you expected. Not sure how that works but after two bowls there's still two bowls worth left for tomorrow. On a slightly different note, I have made other dishes that you've showcased and all were worked out deliciously so thanks again. More power to your elbow. PS: you're right about Colman's!
It's lunchtime here and what you made looks delicious. Made some not so subtle suggestions to my wife to pick up the fixins. Great job and thanks for sharing.
I had to make this and as l live in the US now, I had to subsitute the bacon and sausages, beef oxo cubes are hard to find over here. It still came out amazing. I have a friend in the UK sending me some Oxo cubes and I have found a local butchers that does English style bangers and decent bacon. I will be making this again. Insane amount of food
Great idea, Scott! I did this, but added a bit of garlic to fry with the onions and some tomato paste to thicken. Skipped the potatoes because I didn't have any in the house, and because I'm trying to keep the weight down, I grilled the sausage and bacon rather than frying them, but it was cracking stuff!
Love your videos Scott. Just cooked Joey Grey for the first time. Delicious. Used Angus sausages and Kestrel potatoes. My three girls are all on the spectrum and very fussy eaters but they all loved it. Thanks mate, much love from Australia.
As a Romany Gypsy i got to say the recipe u are doing is the correct orignal way using the few ingredients you have..used..water oxo cubes..potatoes..tomatoes..onion.bacon..u can add sausages but as a rule i only use bacon..very nice job tho...
My father was a Romanian Gypsy and this reminds me of a dish he used to make. It consist of one large onion, half a head of garlic, any kind of hot peppers such as jalapeno. For the protein well it varies from what mood he was in, from pork chops cut up into bite size pieces, or polish sausage, or steak, or use any combination you prefer. My dad mostly used pork chops. Fry about 2 pounds of pork chop in some olive oil, ( season with salt, white and black pepper and a little cayenne) then when u have a nice color on them throw in the onions and peppers for a couple of minutes, then add your garlic. Then add two 16 ounce cans of crushed tomatoes, about a half of glass of wine and a can of water ( use the empty tomato can) bring to a boil then reduce to low for about an hour or so. Then he would make what he called steamed potatoes, about a table spoon of olive oil 5 large potatoes sliced about an 1/8 inch thick and brown them on one side then flip them over and lightly brown the other side, then when they have color on them take about 2 or 3 tablespoons of water and pour into the potatoes and then cover with a lid repeat this step twice. Then take a serving of potatoes and place them in a bowl and pour some of that hot stew on top and it is absolutely delicious my friend! This is also a one pot meal, well except for the potatoes of course. I hope you try this Scott it is really delicious!
Romanians aren’t Gypsies. There are Romany Gypsies who live in Romania but they are not Romanian.
Romanians are European. Romany Gypsies originate in India.
My aunt was a cook in a floating fish camp, that housed and fed up to 20-30 fishermen. Often a storm would brew up in mid-day and the boats would come in and call it a day. Faced with a bunch of grumbly, hungry, wet men and nothing prepared, my aunt said she always used the "onion secret". Frying up a big bunch of onions in bacon fat. The men would smell that she said and settle down, not bothering her until she could prepare a meal. She said it worked every time! Cheers.
Looks like southern cooking to me. I know will love that. My mom use to cook like that. If we were poor. We never knew it, lol.
+Thomas Tommy Good quality, no thrills and tummy filling food like this was always what Mum prepared for us.
With 9 kids to feed and low income she was inventive and always smiled if we asked for a slice of bread to mop up the gravy. We knew we could not afford holidays or school trips but never felt poor in the way some did.
I reckon your Mom and mine put a lot of love in those mealtimes and that makes them such good memories.
Rob.
Yes it does make good memory's. My parents had 11 kids. I was the baby. I was a change of life baby. I have neces and nephews that are much older than me. I've watched most of my siblings and neceses and nephews pass away. I have 2 siblings left. Even lost one nephew that 7 months younger than me. Yes my mom cooked them same foods. I grew up on a mountain farm. We always had pigs. Sorry I took up so much space. Thank you for getting back to me. It means a lot to me. I enjoy your videos very much. Please keep them going. Thanks.
Me granny used to use tinned tomatoes but both ways taste beautiful
Scott... Like what you do. Thank you very much!
Now I'm looking forward to autumn/winter to make this
Anything a gypsy cooks will taste amazing...we use lots of garlic and all fresh veggies ..are great meat ..best part we cook with love
spot on dorian..
I'm definitely going to try that dish . looks like a great winter warmer meal . great stuff Scott
I love this diah.
My nan use to make this.
Miss u nan
OMG...that looked absolutely wonderful!! I will definitely be making this dish. Might use some Andouille sausage since I'm in the Southern US.
What a fantastic simple and super tasty recipe but who would have thought that Joe Grey was food!!
Was so good and quiet an easy recipe to put together potatoes filled us up substituted sausage with calbasa
I live in Connecticut US. Here in New England, we leave the skins on red potatoes. But this is great!!! Good work.
Saw this recipe randomly on tv over 15 years ago! And the name of the dish stuck and when I cooked this- it was extremely tasty!!!!
Well we are never to old to learn something new. Old recepies are mostly just the best ones
looks great another good winter warmer is the Lentil and boiled bacon soup with crusty bread mmmm
I just watched and listened to this post! I am now SO HUNGRY FOR THIS AMAZING DISH !!
I love the Gypsies and welcome any documentary about the people or their cuisine.
Looks dang delicious to me I'm going to try this you made me hungry
My late father loved making soups, I think he would have loved this.
Cooked this today. Fantastic dish and will be a regular meal in our house from now on.
Mum made similar when I was little - she’s Irish - Made me want to jump into the telly and scoff. I’m a bread dipping freak. Tasty, simple, warming, cheap…and yes it is better the next day when all the flavours have developed..delicious. Thank you!
I love this guy.
Fabulous to see recipes from my heritage ❤️
I'm definitely adding this to the family meal rotation. Nice job, Scott!
Absolutely beautiful! Peasant cookery is the foundation of so many "gourmet" dishes, and this is certainly one of them... this is really a "poor man's Cassoulet". Brilliant!
Actually it is not a peasant but a wander / traveling dish! Gypsies was nomadic peoples many times they did mercants (selling-buying) and because of this there is no gypsy food culture because the meats greens fruits etc always changed
But most of gypsy food is hot pot also “grilled”/roasted food because it was simple and fast
@@gipsymelody1268 ... it's actually both. Wanderers and transients weren't exactly well-heeled.
@@seanbryant2848 it’s very not correct! Mostly in the european history!
(I don’t know you are european or not btw) the things is changed a lot mostly in the medieval age! Also there was the cities ages (when the peoples live in the city again) and even the peasant laws changed a lot
But Still mostly the merchants has money and sometimes they was rich like a minor noble like a baron (not speaking only gypsies i speak about every merchants) also they was musicians mostly and there is many historical scrolls and writes they play music in the royals and high nobles!
In early med age the peasant had the worst life
Lords nobles had the best
And merchants wanders had around middle way
Gypsies had mixture life sometimes got violence and punishing because their life style was a bit “dangerous” in that time (has no lords so they are free peoples they do what they want)
Also peasant food always was the same! But wanders not! They always moved and between countries had very big difference what they can growing!
@@gipsymelody1268 Okay, Mr. Historian, I'm not going to get into a pissing match with you. We're both correct.
@@seanbryant2848 ok dude what you feel i just explain why travelers and peasant was not same 😋 (also c’mon dude i learned too much in the school for nothing? Let be honest 90% of knowledge is useless and forgotten and this is so disappointing…)
There is a finer smell than onions frying! And it is: Onions and garlic frying!
and fresh thyme! x
Onions and bacon!!
you can bet if they made that I'd give u a whopping fart hmmmmmmmm and sniffs what's that beef stew😳💨💨💨💩
told my wife the same thing while watching...….too funny!
cracking bowl of food thanks Scott
Hearty eating is the best type of eating, by a country mile
Loody georgeous
I didn't know about the cubes...! Thanks.
A lovely simple meal, looks delicious.
Awesome gonna try thank you
I made Joey Grey and the bacon added a wonderful taste. Of course I bought ‘the good stuff’. Thank you for this recipe.
Dang, I know what's for supper tomorrow!! Thanks for sharing this with us Scott!
Easy dish well done you say it’s a Romany dish nice, my aunt bless yer is 86 yrs young and not Romany but Italian and she makes the same dish good meal trying folks 👍
Attempted the Joe Grey last night......it was "Absolutely Gorgeous".
Wow that looks absolutely delicious mate. Can't wait to give it a try and I know the whole family will love this one. As always thanks for bringing it to us Scott and thanks also for the oxo cube trick, I had no idea either lol.
Classic camping food. Love it!
Looking very yummy!!! Thanks Scott! Great day to you!
Wow thanks Scott, comfort food deluxe.
I will try this in a slow cooker..
Mr Scott, you just became my newest best cook
looks yummy
We have this a lot but I was fetched up wiv it all in one pot no browning the sausages or bacon just put on to boil/simmer lovely wiv crusty bread n butter like ur way too must try it x
peeling potatoes/carrots just didn't happen in our family. was taught that's where the vitamins are at. love potato skins. this is the first dish I learned very young, with countless variations. it's magic. THANKS!!
I love meals like this,thank you for doing a very good job.
I almost tried to smell that through my screen...I like how you just chop the onion and potato and get on with it..no fussing about trying to get it "perfect"....my pallet prefers it that way...my grandmother would be very proud of the way you cook Scott...keep keeping it real being yourself...peace
OMG, you're really living on the edge, my friend, with all those brown bits of flavor and those James Brown onions! I can practically taste it from here, but I really wish I was there to truly taste it.
Just made it tonight for dindins and other than the fact the I used an undersized pot it turned out amazing. Really easy and CHEAP to make.
I'm gonna try making that but with doughballs instead of bread, It looks amazing!
I love your kitchen set up, don't get too fancy on us with this SRPHQ posh set up.
This is the 3rd time I’ve made this and it doesn’t disappoint. Thanks Scott love the videos.
Made this today. All I can say is simpleh loveleh. Great dish on an autumny Sunday
So much soul....
That is the best kind of food. Absolutely love it. Greetings from Slovenia! :)
good for winter
my kind of food scott . old school baby
damn, I wish I could have shown this to my late father, who was on a constant lookout for easy, simple recipes, I think he would have really loved this.
My grandfather was a Romany Gypsy. He saw my future grandmother being attacked by someone and saved her, they fell in love so he gave up the travelling life and settled down. I grew up eating food like this along with stuff that most people would turn their noses up at, such as hedgehogs, squirrels etc.
He'd often get mushrooms and other stuff from the local woods and fields rather than buy them from a shop, can't get much fresher than picking your own.
Bullshit
Wow..I've had Iguana viste dish.. With white rice.. It was amazing.. Back in the old country where I came from.. Only once I did... I was about 7 years old ..
Undertaker Gypsies don’t really travel that’s just some kind of fairytale fake story
Bullshit !
@@josephadams4326 not true
Will have to try this recipe. Looks so good.
i loved it, good cooking , i think this will help me to treat my saturday morning hangover.
Nice work Scott, can't beat wholesome peasant food - doing this tomorrow. Would be great to see you tackle borscht!
Looks amazing 🤩 xx and scrumptious 😋 xx
Giving this a shot tonight. You're an inspiration
This guy is Awesome!!
I cook this quite a lot when I go fishing/camping. If I have leftover cooked bacon or sausage at home I freeze it together and when there's a big enough bag, I take it out to feed a few of us with a joey grey. It always goes down a storm. Crusty bread is a necessity lol.
Got it on now .. epic
I don't know if you pick up comments this long after the original video but if you do, thanks a bunch for this. Made it tonight and all the superlatives that you used are fully justified, it's a killer dish, easy to make, fairly cheap, delicious and, weirdly there's loads more of it than you expected. Not sure how that works but after two bowls there's still two bowls worth left for tomorrow.
On a slightly different note, I have made other dishes that you've showcased and all were worked out deliciously so thanks again. More power to your elbow.
PS: you're right about Colman's!
We do have the best one pot dishes. 🤤🤤🤤 looks fantastic
can't wait to try it bubba
💙 cannot wait to try this!
Made this yesterday for lunch at work this week. Simple, tasty and perfect for the southern hemisphere weather we are getting. Its getting cold.
Going to try this in the slow cooker.
It's lunchtime here and what you made looks delicious. Made some not so subtle suggestions to my wife to pick up the fixins. Great job and thanks for sharing.
I grew up in the 70's too and I didn't know that about Oxo Cubes either! That looks fabulous. Can you imagine it being cooked over an open fire?
Love the simple but great dish. by the by, your videos are getting better and better with each and every one.
I've just learned how to crush OXO cubes properly!! Thanks Scott!!! Awesome videos you make!!
Beautiful! Simple soup. HUGE flavor. Thanks man.
love a bit of joeygrey and you done a good job there now make us a nice bacon pudden my gouger friend
It's good as it is, but some beans would make it even better. It would serve even more people :-)
My family is part Romani...we always added some available rice to such. Good recipe.
Also, it we could, we tossed in any peppers we had available or other vegetables. Green beans from our garden? Yes. Cucumbers from our garden? Yes.
What I like about your vids, apart from everything, is the way you polish off what you make!
And that was the last video i'd had to watch, Scott. 100% vids watched !!
Keeeep them going!!
Wow, top man, you are a diamond..😎💎
I had to make this and as l live in the US now, I had to subsitute the bacon and sausages, beef oxo cubes are hard to find over here. It still came out amazing. I have a friend in the UK sending me some Oxo cubes and I have found a local butchers that does English style bangers and decent bacon. I will be making this again. Insane amount of food
Those butcher knives are epic.
Well done Sir, love your work.
Any more Romany dishes Scott i have made your sausages ect and found themfantastic
I made this dish tonight for supper with what I had on hand . It was amazing and everyone loved it. Great dish Scott. Thanks man!
Made this for dinner tonight and the family loved it! Thanks for the recipe. Keep up the good work!
Looks nice
these are such simple and easy to follow vids, you should post more details such as heat level for the stove stop and exact cooking times
Same recipe, change bacon and sausage for browned ground beef... a family favorite... so good
Sunt țigan și ador această tocană!
I'm a big fan of your channel thank you!
Great idea, Scott! I did this, but added a bit of garlic to fry with the onions and some tomato paste to thicken. Skipped the potatoes because I didn't have any in the house, and because I'm trying to keep the weight down, I grilled the sausage and bacon rather than frying them, but it was cracking stuff!
Drooling.....
Looks fantastic, I had a similar dish in Poland which came served in a large bowl made from bread, would work well with this recipe.
wow! - right up my street!
Love watching your channel, thanks for putting your time and effort into making such great videos!
Love your videos Scott. Just cooked Joey Grey for the first time. Delicious. Used Angus sausages and Kestrel potatoes. My three girls are all on the spectrum and very fussy eaters but they all loved it. Thanks mate, much love from Australia.