Stuffin’em Stuffed Bell Peppers

in foodfightfriday •  6 years ago  (edited)

Food Fight Friday - Welcome all of you egg yolk, food-throwin folk! All of you feeders, cake beater eaters, readers and Steemsters - Happy Friday! Time to make a mess:

“Fighting out of the multi-colored corner!! Weighing in at 14 and one half ounces, standing 5 and thirteen sixteenth’s inches tall! Wearing yellow, green, red and orange peppers that can be grown, thrown, tucked and chucked with accuracy and precision similar to that of a softball and/or a miniature pumpkin!! “Ka’Pow!” Born and raised somewhere between your local produce section and the friendly Farmers Market - Introducing The one... The only... The Tummy Rumblin’ - Oven Tumblin’... The Undefeated Who Never Competed!!!”
:flash: flash: :click: :click: :click:

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”AaHhhhhhh!!!” the crowd goes crazy...

Ingredients:

4 Bell Peppers.
Farro - 1/2 cup.
4 Carrots.
Garlic - 4 cloves.
Corn - one ear.
Sweet Peas - small can.
1 Tomato.
1/2 Onion.
Kidney/Pinto/Black bean combo - 1 can.
Mushrooms - 1/2 cup.
Unsalted Sunflower Seeds - 2-finger pinch.
Bread of your choice.

Your prep-counter will look something like this, minus the seasonings of your choice:

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As soon as I had all of the ingredients on deck and I had a chance to meet the contender for this week’s Food Fight Friday challenge, a unanimous decision was made - I signaled to the team captain: I pointed toward the sky with one hand and repeatedly punched myself in the gut with the other while running around in circles, chanting “summa-summa-summa.” My captain could’ve misinterpreted the signal and sent me a bottle of tums thinking I was complaining of gas pain but she didn’t! And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why she’s the captain! She knew that signal meant:
“Wife, I’m gonna need you on this one, stat! Otherwise I might run this meal straight into the ground and we’ll both have empty stomachs!”

Round 1: Ding!
(This recipe is for two)

Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees.

Add 1 cup Farro and 2n1/2 cups of water in a medium size pot and cook it like you would rice: Bring it to a boil, turn down the heat, cover and let it simmer for 15-20’ish minutes until the water is gone. (Like rice)

Remove the stems from your Bell Peppers and hollow them out like a pumpkin in October.

Chop up 1/2 onion into small pieces and fry them in a little bit of olive oil, together with finely chopped garlic, until the onions are clear:

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Round 2: Ding!

‘Bout to open a can of you know what! Beans and sweet peas - That’s what! Empty them both into a strainer and rinse them off real good in the sink.

Chop up your carrots, tomato and 1/2 cup of mushrooms into chunks, we went with ‘about 3x bigger than a kernel of corn’ sized chunks - There isn’t a wrong size.

Put your ear of corn in the oven for 25’ish minutes.

Add your beans, peas, carrots, tomato and mushrooms to your onion and garlic mixture cooking in the frying pan and stir:

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Round 3: Ding!

At or about the same time your Farro is done cooking, your ear of corn will also be done cooking.

Take the corn out of the oven and remove it from the husk. Once it’s removed from the husk, I like to rinse the corn under the faucet real quick to make sure all of the straggling, hair-type strands are gone. Now chop your corn off into the pan. Turn the oven down to 350 degrees.

Mix all of that love up:

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Round 4: Ding!

In a mixing bowl, start scooping a 1:1 ratio of Farro to Vegetables. Mix it up real good, there’s a lot of love in there.

Place your Bell Peppers, upright, in a casserole dish and scoop your Farro and Vegetable combination into your hallowed out Bell Peppers. Pack the vegetables with Farro and more vegetables like you would pack your carry-on into the overhead bin on an airplane.
a little more.. little.bit.more......lil.. got it!

Now let’s put the them in the 350 degree oven alongside the bread of your choice and let them cook together for 13 minutes. Remove them from the oven and add a pinch of sunflower seeds across the tops:

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Round 5: Ding!


Tina Fey - SNL

We’re proudly exiting the battle arena now, thanks, thank you all for your support! “That was a good one!” Smooth walking with a side of floating down the center aisle as we’re holding our heads high, chef coats thrown over our shoulders and feeding off the cheering of the crowd. We know we put up a good fight! :knuckles: The food has been chucked, flown, eaten and beaten, the kitchen is starting to cool down and we’re stuffed! get it?! But wait, wait, wait... Hold up, wait! I forgot to show you my other secret weapon! Mitts shmitts, towel shmowel - Do you want to protect your hands (and arms!) in the kitchen from heat (and fire!) AND still be able to use your fingers?
Shooooooot:

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Welding Gloves

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OMG!! Way to take it to the next level!! Right from the beginning I’m getting this mental picture
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Great job!!!
I want to see you eat one of those in one bite next week. Ha ha ha
Epic post indeed!!!

  ·  6 years ago (edited)

Nice dude I’m glad you like it! Ya I’m not gonna lie, I had a lot of fun with this one. Happy Friday brother! “Ding!”

Edit: I almost forgot again! Big huge thank you for Steem Basic Income my brother, Ya’all are awesome!

I snuck that one in on ya. Lol.
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Cheers brotha!!

Oh @jlsplatts, he was trying to eat them like a taco in the end. The fork and knife kept getting in his way. Haha

His inner caveman was coming out. Ha ha ha
No time for that sophisticated fork and knife business.

I wanted to start training like Rocky!!
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This recipe and post got me pumped up for the Food Fight Today!!!!
Nice job with the creativity and having some fun. That of what Food Fight Friday is all about.
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I give this one the classic Rick Flare
WWOOOOOOOO

Thank you for the opportunity and providing the space @foodfightfriday we really like the idea. Count on us contributing. 👍🏿

Just wait until the wacky wild contest/challenges start happening. You might not like me so much then.
MUAHAHAHAHA
Only kidding, it will be amazing!!

You wouldn't get a fight from me if you were to hit me with one of them peppers. The only thin that would spice up this post is some spices in the recipe.

He added, sea salt, black pepper, basil, cayenne pepper, and a little garlic powder for extra measure. It was super flavorful.

Now we're talkin'. My standard condiments. They sure look good !

Ya man for sure! Spices. I don’t really measure as I’m adding salt, pepper, garlic salt, etc. so I don’t have an exact anyway. But I don’t do that because I don’t know what people can or can’t eat so ya’all can decide your own seasonings.

Old bay is bomb!

Thanks a lot for stopping by @carklevicci, happy Friday brother!

Speaking of, hey man, you know @jlsplatts is a brother, too, ya? His posse is leading @foodfightfriday. Did I already tell you that? He’s a lineman out of Arizona, he wanted to be a wireman but he couldn’t get passed the spelling... you know how those knot-tyin fools are!

Whoa whoa whoa
I’m a Pacific Northwest Guy 😉
Washington to be exact. But I did spend the first 8 years of my lineman career in central Cali. AKA the armpit—Fresno.

Washington, Arizona.. I had the knot-tyin fools part right! 👍🏿

Dah ha ha oops posted that with the wrong account. Dah ha ha what a dumb Lineman. 😜😜
Just because I don’t know how to read don’t mean nuttin’

One wire hook up...two wires fuck up. I love linemen.

My brother is an electrician and let’s just say we mess with each other quite often.

Can't go wrong with stuffed bell peppers.

I'm not so familiar with Farro, but I've had bell peppers stuffed with rice and ground beef, or cheese and ground beef, or just cheese. My wife will make Chile Rellenos, which also includes cooking egg yolk to the outside and a tomato sauce of some kind. Pretty good stuff.

This looked like quite the process, so it was good there was too of you duking it out. :)

Oh man they turned out great! It was a bit of a process but worth. Farro is a grain, cooks like rice but more substance... body of a grain of rice but big like the size of oatmeal, if that paints a picture? Try out out, I’m sure you’ll like it. Let me know what you think.

I’ve stuffed em with the meats too, sure, ground turkey, I’ve even crumbled burnt bacon across the tops. Stuffed bell peppers are yum in a variety of ways.

Thanks a lot for stopping by @glenalbrethsen

That was such a yummy dinner babe! Thank you for making it, ::wink:: Thank you @jlsplatts for getting him excited to cook dinners. The comedic tone of this writing is very entertaining. I think you should enter it in comedy open mic… btw, those gloves are disgusting! One day I will take a note from your book and just toss em. Good writing @dandays

I use my long gauntlet gloves for handling the meat on my bbq sometimes. Lol.
Those gloves don’t look too bad.
😜😜

Yes it was, you’re most welcome and thank you!

“Safety first.” They may not be pretty but they don’t go with the cuflinks anyway. Great for sticking in the oven though.

Thank you @puravidaville muah!