I started making these stuffed bell peppers last night with the idea that I would pull out the contents of my refrigerator, which I would quickly transform into something pretty amazing before my internal starvation alarms started to sound. It’s funny how delusional I can be at times. They tasted great but took a good hour longer than my after work patience allowed for, which resulted in about three pre dinner snack courses and an unusually large packed lunch today.
Note to self to improve speed of execution: minimally have some cooked rice on hand.
The good news is they keep well and are probably one of those things that benefit from a bit of sitting around as they seemed to taste better today as a lunch than yesterday as dinner. This could have been a result of the snacking though. They tasted great last night too, I just felt that the flavor settled in a bit better as a next day meal. Not a bad thing if you’re a person who fancies making things ahead.
Ive had a huge butternut squash sitting on my counter for over a month now and I’m so relieved that I was finally able to use it! I was having my doubts, it’s harder than you think to use such an enormous amount of squash in the course of a few days when you are just feeding two people. Little did I know that this was one of the best things I could have done.
This is probably the third time in a week I’ve come home starving and thrown myself into making a meal that requires some time to cook. By the time it’s actually ready to eat, I’m no longer hungry because I’ve consumed every available snack food in my pantry. I started out thinking I was going to make Maple Brown Rice Risotto with Mushrooms and Rosemary and fortunately for me I realized the mistake early and quickly changed to Pilaf before I consumed all of our snacks for the week!
