VEGETARIAN STUFFED PEPPERS

 

2 green bell peppers  

½ red bell pepper, diced 

1 pkg riced cauliflower 

1 pkg Don’t Have a Cow (meatless beef style crumbles) 

1 can black beans, drained 

1 c. frozen corn 

½ onion, diced 

Siracha to taste (for heat, can use also cayenne) 

Taco sauce of choice (we used Ortega. Mild) 

Garlic powder 

Onion powder (if desired) 

Cumin 

Dark chili powder (can use any kind of chili powder, we prefer dark) 

Salt 

Pepper 

Lime juice, to taste 

Mexican style shredded cheese (8 oz bag is enough) 

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 

1. Slice the top of the green peppers off and remove the interior of seeds and pith. Dice up the pepper from the stem, add to the red diced pepper and microwave, medium to soften. Set it aside. 

2. In small pan, boil water to cover peppers and place them in the boiling water to par cook. About 5-10 minutes depending on desired ‘par cookedness’. Place in a baking dish lined with parchment paper (for easy cleanup).  

3. Heat the cauliflower per directions. 

4. Heat the crumbles per directions. 

5. In a large bowl, mix everything together except cheese and taco sauce.  

6. Now you can add the sauce, mix 

7. Add cheese for binding, eyeballing the amount. 

8. I microwaved all of this to warm it up before stuffing my peppers 

9. Stuff peppers, top with sauce and cheese  

10. Bake 20 minutes  

 

I set the pepper in a pasta bowl, sliced it right down the middle and laid it open and slid the cheese to the top then piled more cheese overall. Pair with Wegmans brand Xochitl chips or you can use any tortilla chip you like.

You have left over stuffing? So did I! We used it for appetizer and scooped it up with chips which makes this a great appetizer dip as well as stuffed peppers! 

Bon apetit!

 

Spood Life

 Day one. Three weeks ago. I am in the kitchen when I got home from work, taking off my shoes when I see it. I was looking at the clock and above it was a small black spot. I knew exactly what it was, glanced at my husband, Bill, wondering if he caught where I was looking and hoping he didn't. 

It was a small baby jumping spider that, I'm guessing, crawled up out of the elephant plant sitting on the stool below that had been outside all summer long. 

Had him in a small enclosure for a bit until he accidentally got loose into the abyss that is my crafting room. He disappeared. :( 

Fast forward two weeks, where upon my husband, when I got home from work frantically beckoned me to the basement to show me what he'd found. The window down there was covered with plastic film for the cold months to keep cold out, but inside that between the plastic film and the window was a bold jumping spider! 

We rescued him, I placed him in an enclosure I had already set up for that day I might get a jumping spider. That day was now. 

Two days later, my husband, Bill, texts me at work, "you're never going to guess what I found!" I figured it was the baby sling escapee. I come home and he's caught another jumping spider from the basement at the OTHER window! My poor hubby, who is scared of spiders (not as terrified as he used to be) caught this guy by himself. When I got home, he was in a deli cup, inside a plastic bowl with a jar on top of it. Just in case the spider was super strong and could pop the deli cup lid off 😅

So, to update: Here it is almost May and I still have the two of them, Onyx (the first caught) and Fang the one he caught all on his own.