Stuffed Peppers

[NOTSMC]

Had them once, maybe twice, probably in the school cafeteria a billion years ago. I vaguely recall that they were okay and I think they were green peppers hollowed out with some kind of rice, ground beef, tomato sauce type thing.

Fast forward and I find out that my oldest likes green peppers and my BF's ex brings him stuffed peppers. She puts too much garlic in everything and I'm too polite to say did your ex bring over dinner again because you could use a breath mint or a gallon of mouthwash or something. This is not often and most of the time, everything is hunky dory but garlic seems to stick w/him and I have been known to get the dry heaves merely from the smell of garlic bread baking.

Back to the subject. I'm making stuffed peppers and my BF is going to eat them even if it kills him. think I have everything I need BUT when did they start adding cheese. I don't ever remember seeing a stuffed pepper with cheese and he even mentioned cream cheese which is weird because he doesn't like cream cheese. Is this a thing stuffed peppers with cheese? There's a lot of recipes that mention cheese, in fact they all do...did he mean mozzarella cheese maybe? And do you parboil? How long? A few recipes mentioned that without any reference on how long. So confused.

 

[General Lee]

I'm going to ask what everybody is going to want to know.........Why is his ex bringing him food?

Also, I know nothing about stuffed peppers.

 

[frequentflier]

FWIW, I have never had or made stuffed peppers with cheese.

 

[Ken King]

Why is his ex bringing him food?

Might still be a beneficiary on a life insurance policy.

 

[stgislander]

Stuffed peppers (and tomatoes) are easy. Basically meatloaf stuffed in a pepper. Rice can or cannot be added.

Gilligan's daughter gave me a Greek recipe for stuffed peppers and tomatoes that she made when living there. Haven't made it yet, but it looks fantastic.

 

[NOTSMC]

I'm going to ask what everybody is going to want to know.........Why is his ex bringing him food?

Also, I know nothing about stuffed peppers.

Beats me. I think she's lonely and they're still good friends. Not sure how I feel about it, it's annoying on one hand, but on the other hand I think it speaks well of him that he wants to keep the peace and doesn't hate her. And I trust him. And it speaks well of me that I can talk my feelings about it out with him and don't nag him. But I do want to insert myself a little more into his life because he's inserting himself a little more into mine. I want my crappy cooking in his refrigerator, without garlic, and I want her to know it.

 

[NOTSMC]

FWIW, I have never had or made stuffed peppers with cheese.

Yeah that's what I thought too but every single recipe on the internet seems to involve cheese of some sort.

 

[stgislander]

<cough><cough><threesome><cough>

 

[NOTSMC]

Might still be a beneficiary on a life insurance policy.

Nope. I got him a month after his divorce and that's one of things I made sure of for his sake. Although...he did mention that he was thinking about taking an insurance policy OUT on me. Something about being accident prone.

 

[RoseRed]

My twist on stuffed peppers is to use red, yellow or orange peppers. Stuff with taco meat, black olives, salsa, corn and top with cheese.

 

[Kyle]

Stuffed peppers (and tomatoes) are easy. Basically meatloaf stuffed in a pepper. Rice can or cannot be added.

Gilligan's daughter gave me a Greek recipe for stuffed peppers and tomatoes that she made when living there. Haven't made it yet, but it looks fantastic.

When I think of Greek, I’m thinking more like Domaldes. Spelling might not be right.

 

[Czar]

Roast the pepper before stuffing.

 

[vraiblonde]

<cough><cough><threesome><cough>

Is she cute?

 

[stgislander]

Is she cute?

Don't know. You have to ask NOTSMC.

 

[NOTSMC]

Is she cute?

I just now caught the threesome part. No she's not my type. And we're old, we can barely handle each other.

 

[luvmygdaughters]

I make stuffed peppers with ground beef, spanish rice, tomato sauce and I add cheddar cheese on the top for the last 15 minutes of baking.

 

[Blister]

I like mine with Sweet Italian sausage, rice, a little mild salsa, and shredded Monterey Jack cheese.

 

[NOTSMC]

Roast the pepper before stuffing.

Roast or parboil?

 

[NOTSMC]

I make stuffed peppers with ground beef, spanish rice, tomato sauce and I add cheddar cheese on the top for the last 15 minutes of baking.

I'll have to look that up. They both like spanish rice. Thanks!

 

[gemma_rae]

Roast or parboil?

Yes.