Stuffed Bell Peppers

This past weekend Sarah and I had a friend come to visit, so I looked in the fridge to figure out what I wanted to make for dinner. We had three bell peppers that had been in there for a little over a week, so it seemed the appropriate thing to do to cook those up. I decided to stuff them, which tends to be hit or miss for me (I think I may actually have a previous post on here about stuffed peppers from when I lived with Lilly) but I'm happy to report these were one of the better variants of them that I've made thus far in life.

I threw a tomato and some onion into my little food processor followed by a couple of garlic cloves.

Then I put in two sausages (I went with a chicken sausage that had apple bits in it) and an egg. I proceeded to blend it up for a few moments until it looked pretty unappetizing. 

Then I stirred in some melted butter, some stuffing mix (which I failed to capture a picture of, but I used the pepperidge farm stuff that comes in a bag, that lives in my pantry for occasions like this and to top baked mac and cheese...of course), and a little bit of water to just get everything moist, but not so much that it wasn't immediately absorbed.

Then came the peppers of course. Halving them, discarding the seeds, and filling them up with the sausage and stuffing mixture.

I topped them with shredded mozzarella and threw them in the oven at 400*F until the cheese was starting to turn golden brownd. 

We ate them with a small side salad and some prosecco, and I was glad they didn't come out terrible. One did magically become unstuffed in the oven though... I'm still not sure how that happened, but I just scooped the filling back into the pepper. Sarah liked how they tasted but wasn't a fan of the texture of the filling, it was too smooth and possibly too moist. But other than that success! See you next Tuesday!