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I made stuffed peppers for dinner tonight
Aug. 16th, 2011 10:47 pm
(And also fried eggplant, green beans, and two rather wilted fennel bulbs I had in the fridge. They came out all right, considering.)
I was already going to make them, because we got a metric ton of purple peppers at the CSA Thursday, and when this C&H appeared on my friends page I knew what I had to do.
Yes, I told the nieces they were monkey brains. (They, like anybody, will often prefer to eat new foods if the food has an appealing or fanciful name. Given their ages, "gross-out" is appealing.)
Here's the thing. When I put the peppers in the oven, they were purple. When I flipped them over to fill with the stuffing, they were still purple. When I pulled them out again - they had lost all purple coloring! The dark ones were green and the light ones were white!
What happened, and how can I prevent this in the future?
(The girls liked them all right, although neither child was happy at the fact that this was another way to use up squash. The eggplant was oversalted, I'm sorry to say, and there wasn't much fennel. Green beans are always a hit, though, and we had apricots with honey for dessert, so nobody starved. That's all right.)
I was already going to make them, because we got a metric ton of purple peppers at the CSA Thursday, and when this C&H appeared on my friends page I knew what I had to do.
Yes, I told the nieces they were monkey brains. (They, like anybody, will often prefer to eat new foods if the food has an appealing or fanciful name. Given their ages, "gross-out" is appealing.)
Here's the thing. When I put the peppers in the oven, they were purple. When I flipped them over to fill with the stuffing, they were still purple. When I pulled them out again - they had lost all purple coloring! The dark ones were green and the light ones were white!
What happened, and how can I prevent this in the future?
(The girls liked them all right, although neither child was happy at the fact that this was another way to use up squash. The eggplant was oversalted, I'm sorry to say, and there wasn't much fennel. Green beans are always a hit, though, and we had apricots with honey for dessert, so nobody starved. That's all right.)
