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Someone mentioned stuffed peppers so that gave me the idea to make some for tonight. Our menu got out of whack because of previous commitments this week that slipped my mind. This is the first time I've made stuffed peppers but found a simple recipe on recipezaar so I'll give that a try.
Stuffed Peppers
Green Beans
French Bread
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Someone mentioned stuffed peppers so that gave me the idea to make some for tonight. Our menu got out of whack because of previous commitments this week that slipped my mind. This is the first time I've made stuffed peppers but found a simple recipe on recipezaar so I'll give that a try.
Stuffed Peppers
Green Beans
French Bread
Hum! I never had stuffed peppers... is it good? Could you post your recipes please Peppers are on sale next week!!!
Hum! I never had stuffed peppers... is it good? Could you post your recipes please Peppers are on sale next week!!!
You're too cute. I just went to recipezaar and used a combination of recipes. Some recipes use raw ground beef with ingredients and let it cook in the pepper. Some recipes you cook the ground beef before adding to pepper. I cooked my ground beef before hand so the meat would be more 'loose' instead of packed like a meat loaf. Does that make sense to you?
This is how I made mine:
8 oz. cooked ground beef (lean)
1 cup cooked brown rice
8 oz. tomato sauce
Italian spices and garlic to taste
chopped onion
Mixed that all together and packed it in halved & cleaned red and green bell peppers. I split my peppers so they were on their side. (I didn't precook or parboil the peppers. I added maybe 1/2 cup of water to casserole to help peppers cook. We like them a little firm) I topped with mozzarella cheese, covered and baked at 350 for 45 min. Remove foil and cook another 15 minutes.
That's my take on it. I'll let you know how they turned out. That's one reason I like recipezaar so much. I love all of the reviews and variations. I take one idea from one review, a recipe here, and an ingredient from there, to get what I'm looking for.
I'm guessing that the stuffed peppers are the same as your stuffed cabbage rolls but with different spices.
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Ok, that's how to make stuffed peppers. Turned out perfect. The peppers were cooked but not mushy, the stuffing tasty, cheese was a little crisp on top.
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You're too cute. I just went to recipezaar and used a combination of recipes. Some recipes use raw ground beef with ingredients and let it cook in the pepper. Some recipes you cook the ground beef before adding to pepper. I cooked my ground beef before hand so the meat would be more 'loose' instead of packed like a meat loaf. Does that make sense to you?
This is how I made mine:
8 oz. cooked ground beef (lean)
1 cup cooked brown rice
8 oz. tomato sauce
Italian spices and garlic to taste
chopped onion
Mixed that all together and packed it in halved & cleaned red and green bell peppers. I split my peppers so they were on their side. (I didn't precook or parboil the peppers. I added maybe 1/2 cup of water to casserole to help peppers cook. We like them a little firm) I topped with mozzarella cheese, covered and baked at 350 for 45 min. Remove foil and cook another 15 minutes.
That's my take on it. I'll let you know how they turned out. That's one reason I like recipezaar so much. I love all of the reviews and variations. I take one idea from one review, a recipe here, and an ingredient from there, to get what I'm looking for.
I'm guessing that the stuffed peppers are the same as your stuffed cabbage rolls but with different spices.
Thanks for your recipes... I have to try it in my crock pot next week with red peppers hummm.... But I like the meatloaf kind of meat....
I was extremely domestic today, and made a 99 cent dinner!
I had the ham bone with lots of meat still floating around in the freezer since after Easter dinner. Grama usually takes it home and makes soup out of it, but she can no longer lift the soup pot, so she left it for me. Great.
I thawed it out last night, put it in the crockpot w/ onion, garlic, salt, pepper, a bay leaf, and a 99 cent bag of 16 beans (which I brought to a boil and let sit in the hot water for half an hour before I added them). Let it cook all day on low, bumped it up to high when I got home. Made cornbread from scratch from ingredients on hand, and wah lah dinner! We rounded it out with fruit for dessert. I ate it, but don't really care for ham or beans, but it wasn't bad. Jack ate leftover hot dogs. But 3 out of 5 ain't bad. And grandma was proud of me...
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Someone mentioned stuffed peppers so that gave me the idea to make some for tonight. Our menu got out of whack because of previous commitments this week that slipped my mind. This is the first time I've made stuffed peppers but found a simple recipe on recipezaar so I'll give that a try.
Stuffed Peppers
Green Beans
French Bread
We had stuffed peppers tonight. I did some sauted cabbage (a "Barefoot Contessa" recipe that we and it's quick & yummy!)
Crockpot Chicken Stroganoff over noodles along with broccoli and french bread
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Thanks for your recipes... I have to try it in my crock pot next week with red peppers hummm.... But I like the meatloaf kind of meat....
Hey Gen ~
There were 3 recipes on recipezaar for stuffed peppers in the crock pot. Good luck!
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