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Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients

• brown rice, cooked acc'd to directions (a little tony sacherie in the boiling water never hurts)
  
• bell peppers, different colors
  
• fresh tomatoes, chopped
  
• handful of fresh spinach
  
• olive oil
  
• garlic cloves, minced
  
• liquid smoke
  
• tony sacherie's spices
  

Instructions

• cook the rice, set aside
  
• cut off the top third of each pepper, scrape seeds and insides and discard
  
• chop the pepper tops and saute in the oil with the garlic
  
• add the tomatoes and cook for about a minute
  
• blanch the spinach (boil for about a minute -- don't let it get slimy!)
  
• add the above ingredients to the rice with a little water, liquid smoke and spices to taste
  
• toss the pepper bottoms in boiling water and blanch (cook for about five minutes)
  
• fill the peppers with the rice, set in a shallow pan, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with fresh ground pepper, cover with foil and cook at 350 for 10-15 minutes
  

* for a little variation purchase large ripe hothouse tomatoes, scrape the insides out for the rice mix. cook a separate spinach mix with the sacherie's, a little tomato, a dash of cayenne pepper, black pepper (fresh ground is best) and sea salt. fill the fresh tomatoes with spinach and bake with the stuffed peppers.