Fix-It and Forget-It

Is your pasta feeling a bit under-dressed these days? Missing out on the holiday spirit? Looking just a trifle dowdy surrounded by all the other festive holiday dishes on the table? Continue Reading...

Most people would agree that ground turkey, turkey ham, and turkey sausage are better for you than their beef- or pork-based counterparts. There’s less agreement on how they stack up when it comes to taste. Continue Reading...

What’s our favorite way to make a fantastic marinara sauce? Throw all of the ingredients in a pot, and then cook everything down for hours over a low heat. The tomatoes, herbs, and spices blend into a tangy, thick, and flavorful sauce that we like to pour over pasta and sop up with slices of garlic bread.
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Stuffed Peppers was one of those recipes we kept avoiding. Not because they didn’t sound delicious, but because coring peppers seemed like a chore and we weren’t sure we had time to delicately spoon the meat mixture into each pepper shell.

It turns out that this recipe is rather easy, especially when coring the peppers with the handy-dandy Pepper Corer that we picked up at The Good Cooking Store. And the pepper shells are not as fragile as they appear. Using a spoon to fill each pepper is a cinch—so simple, in fact, we may hand this duty over to the kids next time.

But the best part about this recipe is that it makes you look like a champ in the kitchen. We’ll be the first to admit that stuffed anything is completely impressive—not to mention delicious. The combination of Spanish rice and ground beef makes a hearty filling for these peppers, and we like that the pepper adds an extra dose of vegetables to our diet.

Serve it with soup and an enticing dessert. We like Stuffed Peppers with Hamburger Vegetable Soup and Fudgy Peanut Butter Cake.
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A few weeks ago we mentioned a fabulous barbecue sauce that we use in our Quickie Barbecued Chicken recipe. We love this brand of sauces so much that it is time to share them all with you!

The sauces are from the Cortazzo company and are made right here in Lancaster County, PA, by Chef Scott Martino. He has been a chef in some of Lancaster County’s finest restaurants. A few years ago he started his own company, making tomato sauces and barbecue sauces based on his family’s recipes.
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