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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Stuffed Green Peppers

This Recipe is from of one of Chat Me More's Followers (Stephani)


Stuffed Green Peppers

Ingredients: 
1 Tablespoon butter
4 Green bell peppers
1 1/2 pounds ground sirloin
1/2 pound ground sausage (hot, mild, your choice)
1 small white onion, diced fine
Oregano, Seasoned Pepper and Fennel Seed [optional] to taste
6 Roma tomatoes
2 teaspoons of crushed garlic or 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
6 ounces of fresh Feta cheese, crumbled
1/2 cup grated parmesan or romano cheese
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (optional)

Spray casserole dish with PAM. Cook ground sirloin and sausage at low to medium heat, stirring often. Once meat is cooked through, drain thoroughly. Add all butter, onions, garlic, oregano, seasoned pepper, fennel seed and 3/4 of tomatoes. Simmer over low heat approximately 20 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Cut off tops of all peppers, remove inner seeds and membranes and wash thoroughly. Fill all peppers with meat mixture, alternating with a layer of feta and parmesan cheeses. Place peppers into a casserole dish, side by side, adding the remaining tomatoes to the dish (around and under the peppers so they cook up and into the peppers.) [Alternatively, you can cut peppers in half vertically and stuff each half, making serving easier and speeding bake-time.]

Add any remaining mixture around the peppers and sprinkle all remaining feta and parmesan cheeses on top. Add shredded mozzarella cheese if desired for a hint of extra flavor.

Bake at 350°F for approximately 30 minutes or until browned and bubbly as desired. 


Makes 4 stuffed peppers (or 8 half-peppers.) 5 net grams of carbohydrate per serving.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Springtime Pasta by Chat Me More

Ingredients
5-6 Sweet Italian sausage links
3 large boneless chicken breast
1 to 1 1/2 pounds of bowtie or penne pasta
2 lemons
1 onion
1/2 cup of olive oil
1 tablespoon of minced jarred garlic
1/2 green squash
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of black or white pepper

Preparation
Cut chicken and sausage an inch thick and cook together in a pan with olive oil, cook until
 the sausage is no longer pink. Simultaneously start boiling water for the pasta.
When water boils add pasta and add 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
Dice onion and cook with the chicken and sausage until onion is transparent.
Add garlic and grate in the squash (with or without the skin)
Squeeze lemons in the pan and mix all ingredients.
Drain pasta (about 7 minutes of cooking, cook until one's preference) and set aside back into pot.
Sprinkle salt and pepper in pan and toss with pasta.

Optional Parmesan cheese, Chat Me More did not use the cheese
for this recipe.


Serve 4-6


This dish will become one of your favorites. 


If you grate vegetables into every dish kids will not be aware
 and they will get the nutrition from the veggies.