Monday: Meal Idea

It's Monday!!!!

Actually no, my day started more like... it's monday :''''(.  So after crying (literally laying in bed at 7:45 dreading the treadmill, but knowing I would be getting a text from a wonderful friend).  Then silently kicking myself for not getting out of bed so my hubby didn't have to drag our three high schoolers with him to go take kids to school.  I reminding myself how incredibly blessed I am in my not perfect but totally wonderful life.  Now this took a good five minutes to get through.  Then came the next thing.  What to have for dinner.  I try to make a menu plan, but sometimes it gets blown out of the water, or I want new ideas.

Sooooooooooo.  What's for dinner?  I've wanted to blog more, but well I need organization and expectations.  So Monday is going to be Meal Idea Monday, kinda catchy huh.  Keep watching to see what fun themes come the rest of the week. 

So tonight on the Moore Meal Monday Menu is....................................

Stuffed Peppers

  This is my ideal.

Recipe adapted from link above.

4 green peppers or colored ones (cleaned with seeds and tops removed)

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1/3 cup onion (chopped fine)
3 garlic cloves (small to medium sized minced)
1/4 cup green onion (chopped fine)
2 tablespoons green peppers or colored pepper for more eye appeal red is best (minced).  I just use the tops.
1 lb ground something beef, venison, turkey, chicken
0.5 (14 1/2 ounce) can diced tomatoes (1/4 cup of liquid reserved)
1 1/2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon seasoning salt or 1 teaspoon seasoning, blend
1/4 cup spaghetti sauce
1/2 cup pre-shredded mozzarella cheese
2 c. cabbage/cole slaw mix (never tried it, but gonna add it in while I cook down the sauce.  Hoping for more filling, a little hint of flavor, and some nutrients.

Directions:
1Boil water to blanch peppers (helps them not be so crunchy)
2Preheat Oven to 375 degrees.
3Brown meat with onion, garlic, and peppers
4Blanch peppers (basically dunk them in boiling water for 1-2 minutes) then place in cake pan.
5To meat mixture add diced tomatoes, Italian seasoning, and season salt/blend (cabbage)
6Mix well and cook another five minutes.
7Stuff mixture inside hollow green peppers.
8Pour reserved tomato liquid in a baking dish and place peppers in dish.
9Top each stuffed pepper with about a tablespoon of spaghetti sauce.
10Mound each pepper with cheeses.
11Cook in a 375 degree oven for 20 minutes or until cheese is golden brown.

Tonight we will be having this with boxed rice mix, salad, and melon.  The peppers were on sale this week for 69 cents so that is why we are having them.  The kid like them, they're healthy, and easy to make.  If you have a favorite stuffed shells recipe I think it would work in these.  Sometimes I also cut them lengthwise and fill them.  Makes more filling to pepper, which the kids like.  Also, takes less peppers. 

 This is the reality

This is not mine, but it looks like what mine do.  Also, you can look up great low cal, low carb, low fat, and even meat free options.