Joe Grey, A Traditional, Romany Gypsy Dish.  

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.

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!

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.

I love the Gypsies and welcome any documentary about the people or their cuisine.

There is a finer smell than onions frying! And it is: Onions and garlic frying!

Sunt țigan și ador această tocană!

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.

I didn't know about the cubes...! Thanks.

Classic camping food. Love it!

Now I'm looking forward to autumn/winter to make this

It's good as it is, but some beans would make it even better. It would serve even more people :-)

Scott... Like what you do. Thank you very much!

I just watched and listened to this post! I am now SO HUNGRY FOR THIS AMAZING DISH !!

I'm definitely going to try that dish . looks like a great winter warmer meal . great stuff Scott

A lovely simple meal, looks delicious.

I live in Connecticut US. Here in New England, we leave the skins on red potatoes. But this is great!!! Good work.

I love meals like this,thank you for doing a very good job.

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!!!!

I'm definitely adding this to the family meal rotation. Nice job, Scott!

Beautiful! Simple soup. HUGE flavor. Thanks man.

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

Fabulous to see recipes from my heritage ❤️

Well we are never to old to learn something new. Old recepies are mostly just the best ones

OMG...that looked absolutely wonderful!! I will definitely be making this dish. Might use some Andouille sausage since I'm in the Southern US.

Cooked this today. Fantastic dish and will be a regular meal in our house from now on.

Made this for dinner tonight and the family loved it! Thanks for the recipe. Keep up the good work!

I love this diah. My nan use to make this. Miss u nan

💙 cannot wait to try this!

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!

Mr Scott, you just became my newest best cook

Dang, I know what's for supper tomorrow!! Thanks for sharing this with us Scott!

What a fantastic simple and super tasty recipe but who would have thought that Joe Grey was food!!

Made it, loved it, gonna be a staple for my family. Scott, you got the best cooking channel on youtube. Cheers!

Hearty eating is the best type of eating, by a country mile

I love this guy.

Looks dang delicious to me I'm going to try this you made me hungry

Looking very yummy!!! Thanks Scott! Great day to you!

This is the 3rd time I’ve made this and it doesn’t disappoint. Thanks Scott love the videos.

My late father loved making soups, I think he would have loved this.

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!

Going to have this for my tea tonight, turns out we have everything in for it! Looks amazing.

I've just learned how to crush OXO cubes properly!! Thanks Scott!!! Awesome videos you make!!

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.

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

Love watching your channel, thanks for putting your time and effort into making such great videos!

Will have to try this recipe. Looks so good.

Absolutely smashing! I love it! My kind of Kooking.

That is the best kind of food. Absolutely love it. Greetings from Slovenia! :)

brings back memories my mum use to cook this :)

cracking bowl of food thanks Scott

Loody georgeous

Awesome gonna try thank you

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 made Joey Grey and the bacon added a wonderful taste. Of course I bought ‘the good stuff’. Thank you for this recipe.

Attempted the Joe Grey last night......it was "Absolutely Gorgeous".

Wow thanks Scott, comfort food deluxe. I will try this in a slow cooker..

Omg that looks so good! Yum!

Scott! Great Scott! I love the variety in your dishes! Good meals.

Made this today. All I can say is simpleh loveleh. Great dish on an autumny Sunday

Made this yesterday for lunch at work this week. Simple, tasty and perfect for the southern hemisphere weather we are getting. Its getting cold.

Looks amazing 🤩 xx and scrumptious 😋 xx

This guy is Awesome!!

oooh. that looks pretty good

What I like about your vids, apart from everything, is the way you polish off what you make!

looks great another good winter warmer is the Lentil and boiled bacon soup with crusty bread mmmm

Those butcher knives are epic.

Giving this a shot tonight. You're an inspiration

Was so good and quiet an easy recipe to put together potatoes filled us up substituted sausage with calbasa

looks yummy

Love the simple but great dish. by the by, your videos are getting better and better with each and every one.

can't wait to try it bubba

Me granny used to use tinned tomatoes but both ways taste beautiful

Scott! Really a lovely old school recipe. Thank you for sharing this delicious video. Blessings ChefMike

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!!

We do have the best one pot dishes. 🤤🤤🤤 looks fantastic

Drooling.....

i loved it, good cooking , i think this will help me to treat my saturday morning hangover.

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.

Got it on now .. epic

I would subscribe twice if I could! Your videos are inspirational. I feel like I'm an apprentice to a great butcher and chef when I watch your videos. Keep up the good work!

So much soul....

loved it ♥

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?

Well done Sir, love your work.

wow! - right up my street!

I love your kitchen set up, don't get too fancy on us with this SRPHQ posh set up.

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!

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.

my kind of food scott . old school baby

absolute delish!!

I'm gonna try making that but with doughballs instead of bread, It looks amazing!

I'm going to make it.. Thank you.. I've been curious about Ramichal gypsy traditional food.. Thanks 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 👍

I'm a big fan of your channel thank you!

no lie I ran across this vid while I'm enjoying exactly what he's cooking yeah I'm gypsy

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.

Nice work Scott, can't beat wholesome peasant food - doing this tomorrow. Would be great to see you tackle borscht!

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

I love cooking this. Absolutely fantastic and everyone I cook it for all day the same thing. I now serve it with hard boiled eggs. Sounds odd but works all so well.

good for winter