I was reading the Quinoa posts yesterday and I got my creative wheels turning. I have always liked stuffed bell peppers. So I decided to do the following:

1. Cooked some ground turkey meat, season with season salt and pepper and lots fo garlic powder.

2. Cooked 1/2 cup of Quinoa after rinsing and browning it.

3. Sauted some celery and white onion.

I cooked all of these seperate and then combined it into one skillet, I then added 1.5 small cans of tomatoe sauce.

After I boiled the bell peppers, I drained them and then started stuffing the peppers with the turkey/quinoa mixture.

I put in some of the mixture and then put in a good size piece of american cheese.

Then more cheese and then more filler.

Half way during the filling, I put in some of the unused tomatoe sauce,

At the end, I topped off the pepper with the remaining tomatoe sauce and put a cross of american cheese across the top. Just to make it plenty cheesy, I topped them off with a little left over mozzerella cheese.

I plan on baking them at 350 until they are all warm and bubbly.

I will post pics tonight after dinner is served.

Mark

I was reading the Quinoa posts yesterday and I got my creative wheels turning. I have always liked stuffed bell peppers. So I decided to do the following:

1. Cooked some ground turkey meat, season with season salt and pepper and lots fo garlic powder.

2. Cooked 1/2 cup of Quinoa after rinsing and browning it.

3. Sauted some celery and white onion.

I cooked all of these seperate and then combined it into one skillet, I then added 1.5 small cans of tomatoe sauce.

After I boiled the bell peppers, I drained them and then started stuffing the peppers with the turkey/quinoa mixture.

I put in some of the mixture and then put in a good size piece of american cheese.

Then more cheese and then more filler.

Half way during the filling, I put in some of the unused tomatoe sauce,

At the end, I topped off the pepper with the remaining tomatoe sauce and put a cross of american cheese across the top. Just to make it plenty cheesy, I topped them off with a little left over mozzerella cheese.

I plan on baking them at 350 until they are all warm and bubbly.

I will post pics tonight after dinner is served.

Mark

can't wait to see the photo!

That sounds scrumptious and healthy! Looking forward to the pics

Stop that! You're making me hungry. :-P

On second thought, go ahead and post your food porn pics.

Well I have good news and bad news. Good news is my wife loved it, the bad news is she took a fork and tore the top open on one to see if it was done do I didn't want to take a picture of it. But I had enough filling to make a couple more and I will go and do that next week and take a picture then ok? Sorry but it was good. So quinoa is the way to go.

I have a great quinoa and black bean chili recipe. Soooooo flavorful.

http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/217002/quinoa-and-black-bean-chili

I like it mixed with cabbage, ground turkey and soy sauce - tastes like the inside of an egg roll .

Also saw a recipe online earlier for toasted quinoa. I don't remember where I saw it now, but it was being mixed into chocolate to give a "rice krispy" crunch.