Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers

Don't these just look tasty!!!! Not bad for my first try!!!

Take some green peppers, cut off the tops and gut them (seeds and such). Rinse them off, take a pan (I chose this one because it has a lid, but any will do with some foil on top if needed), I sprayed it with cooking spray as well as drizzled olive oil on the pan so it doesn't burn/stick to the pan. Place peppers in pan bottoms down, so they look like little bowls.

Next is the filling. I just got back from vacation, so I had a lot of farmers market veggies hanging out, so this was my way of using them up. I only didn't put any meat in it because we didn't have any left from camping other than hotdogs...and thats just weird.

Anyways enough rambling....I chopped up one large yellow sweet onion, some chunks of tomato left over from the salad below, chopped the tops we cut off the peppers (minus the stem) into bite size chunks, boiled some plain white rice (I used the 5 min pre-cooked rice), boiled a ear of corn and cut it off the cob, picked some oregano leaves from my garden, put it all in a bowl, dumped a can of tomato sauce in, added a little sprinkle of salt, pepper and garlic powder, then stirred it well.


Then stuffed the peppers with the mixture til it was full, but not overflowing (tried to keep extra filling from falling out onto the pan so it wouldn't burn or make it hard to wash after it cooked.)


Then I sprinkled the tops with shredded mozzarella, a dash of salt and pepper, and garlic powder. Then placed them in the oven at 425 degrees until they look like...


THIS!!! The pepper is mushy, and the cheese is toasted brown. You can hear it sizzle when it cooks!


I think this was a great turn out for my first attempt! And its healthy!


Doesn't it just make you want to salivate! Time to dig in!!!


So JUICY!.....and HOT!


For sides, I picked purple green beans and green beans from both gardens (Purple Green Beans [ or what I like to call Amish Green Beans because the first time I bought them was at a Farmer's Market in Boyne City where some Amish people were selling them at their stand] turn green when they are cooked, so its kind of idiot proof to cook them!) I also added some of the corn that I cut for the peppers.


I put them in a bowl with some butter and garlic powder, yum!


I was going to make a salad as well but the lettuce didn't survive the trip. So I made a no-lettuce salad, with just a big red ripe tomato and a fresh cucumber, sliced up into bite sizes.


Then covered them in ranch--my favorite---tho any dressing will do---experiment to your liking!


Then I heated up some leftover campfire potatoes from camping. They are like a baked potato without the skin. They are peeled, mashed up, smothered in butter, salt, pepper, with a chopped onion, and maybe some garlic powder as well. They taste just like the camp fire they were cooked over!