Bell Pepper Recipe | #12

What does food have to do with photography?

Well, I suppose if you make up a recipe and cook something you should probably take a picture of it. lol!

This is more of a personal get-to-know me blog. There are lots of things I love and one of them is cooking. It’s like a creative outlet for me and I also love to eat. My style of cooking is to find a recipe, get a general idea of what should happen and then wander around the kitchen and find interesting things to add to my dish. That’s the creative part. I like to expirement and sometimes it turns out wonderful and other times… well, lets just say sometimes my husband is “not happy”. 🙂

I usually don’t write things down, but I did make one really wonderful stuffed bell pepper dish and I wanted to document it for future use. So here’s my secret recipe. For those of you who love to cook, give it a try. Also, one of my favorite blogs to follow is my cousin Ashley’s. She’s an amazing inventor of recipes! Be warned though, if you visit her blog you’ll probably feel inspired and end up in the kitchen. (Notwithoutsalt.com)

Kira’s Stuffed Bell Peppers:

Ingredients:

– 4 bell peppers (any color)

– 1 green onion

– 1lb of Baron Farms grass fed ground beef

– 1 1/2 cups of cooked rice

– 1 cup chopped tomatoes

– cilantro to taste

– 1 cup of grated cheese

– 2 garlic cloves

– 4 tbsp olive oil

– 1 jar of Prego Italiano sauce

How To Make:

1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat. Cut top off peppers 1 inch from stem end and remove seeds. Add several generous pinches of salt to the boiling water then add peppers and boil for about 3 min or until slightly softened. Remove peppers from water and set in glass baking dish.

2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Boil rice in pot until soft, remove from heat. Heat 4 tbst of olive oil in large skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and onions, cook stiring often until soft (about 4 min). Add ground beef and cook with onions and garlic until done.

3. Place cooked rice in a large mixing bowl, add cooked ground beef, tomatoes, cilantro & grated cheese. Mix ingredients thoroughly.

4. Use ingredients to stuff bell peppers. Oce stuffed, pour Prego itallian sauce over the top of the bell peppers. Use the whole jar!

5. Cover with foil, place in oven and bake for 40-50 minutes (or until the internal tempature is 150 degrees F).

6. Enjoy!

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