The Sultana issued a challenge. Create a variation of her Grilled Stuffed Peppers, and Other Things recipe. I have done just that.

Last night, lacking inspiration for dinner, and having little in the way of ingredients, I turned to the webbernets to see if I could find something. I stumbled over the Sultana’s peppers recipe, and saw her challenge. Thus inspired, I went to the fridge armed with nothing more than the thought that I should cook something and put it in something else. Ummm. Now what?

I found lurking in the depths of the crisper, a single red pepper, a bit of onion, and a couple mushrooms. To the freezer!! Once there, I located a few pork chops, you know the ones, gross and thin and not really good for anything but shake’n'bake and a frying pan. Okay. Thoughts are forming here…what else have we got? RICE!

Ingredients in hand I began to create a guilt free meal for two.

METHOD

1. Defrost your pork chops to room temperature and rub with your desired amount of Bone Dust.
2. Cook the rice you are using in the fashion you prefer.
3. Preheat the grill to medium–high, and oil the grill where you will be preparing your pork and red peppers. While the grill is preheating, slice your red pepper in half and remove the seeds, stem and veins. I tried to use a knife on the veins. Next time I will use a spoon, or a grapefruit spoon.
4. Grill the pork and red peppers, making sure that the raw meat does not touch the peppers.
5. When the pork is kindof whitish and its juices run clear, it is done. Roast the peppers until they are getting good grill marks, and the flesh inside starts to bubble and ooze juice. They will take longer than the pork.
6. While you are cooking the pepper and pork, fry up the mushrooms and onions. I used the Wok Topper so that I could watch everything at the same time, and I only needed less than ¹/₈th of a tsp. of oil to make them brown.
7. When the pork, mushrooms and onions are done, slice the pork into small cubes and mix with the rice, add the mushrooms and onions.
8. Stuff the peppers with the rice mixture and enjoy.

I’m not a huge fan of red peppers. A little in a salad, hidden in spaghetti sauce, that is good, but eating half of one because it’s my meal? It was really quite good. Next time I am going to put a good cheese in the bottom after flipping over the red pepper to roast on the other side. And I am going to add garlic.

Thank you Sultana for issuing the challenge. I believe I have begun to see red peppers in a new light.  Also, I have come to realize that there is a new food rule to live by. We already know;

Everything is better with bacon.

but…

When unsure about your food, stuff it with or in something else, it will likely taste better.

~Andrea