Creating Soul Food, The Gypsy Way

I love the idea of creating a mood with food. I love not following a measured recipe and "sprinkling" and "dashing" my food with whatever flavors and colors I wish to bring to my food and the person enjoying it! This is how I create food MAGIC!

I call this type of cooking and creating, gypsy style. I just flow with my free spirited, creative side and play and enjoy the magic of cooking to invoke whatever mood I am in or wish to create.

I especially love to create the feeling of love and romance. Romance to me is love, set on fire. It brings out a feeling, new or past held, a stirring of joy, pure happiness, this to me is gypsy cooking.

I like to take an ordinary piece of food, look in my cupboards and finds spices, and whatever I have on hand, and turn it into something extraordinary!

This sweet strawberry banana treat I created this way, and let me tell you, it is decadent. I encourage you to find your inner gypsy and look at what you have around your kitchen.

Want to make your children smile and feel happy?

Want to make your love something to stir some romance?

Want to send a friend or neighbor some much needed hospitality to lift their spirits?

Cook and create with passion, with love, with care, with intent, let your inner gypsy play!

Here is how I created what is in the picture above! I took a banana, strawberries, sliced them and arranged them how I felt they looked pretty! Placed an almond in each one and then sprinkled them with unsweetened coconut flakes, cinnamon, raw cacao nibs, and then drizzled it with raw agave syrup!

Simply Divine! Now go have fun and see what your gypsy self creates!