My Own Personal Food Sustainability Series: Episode 6
There is something supremely satisfying and motivating to me about noticing all the whole foods I eat throughout the day. As a culture we typically don't eat just an onion, or just a pepper, or sometimes maybe even just fruit. They tend to be mixed in dishes, like casseroles, burrito bowls, or smoothies. While we all motivate differently than other people in our quest to choose the "best" food, whatever that may mean to each of us, and then within ourselves we motivate differently depending on what we're dealing with, at the end of the day being able to say to yourself, "Today I ate a whole onion, a cucumber, 2 jalepenos, 1/2 a bell pepper, 1 Cup of spinach, and 1/2 Cup of carrots" can make you feel like you really accomplished something, and inspire you to see what you can do the next day!
I practiced this theory with my dinner tonight: a stuffed bell pepper:
I ate 1/2 an onion, a couple cloves of garlic, 1 bell pepper, and 1 jalepeno (not pictured are cheese, ground beef... you know, "the fixin's"). I knew I needed to cook that bell pepper, because it's a little wrinkly, as you can see from the photo, and cooking will cover the fact that it was getting a little more ripe than desired. Remember, take this recipe as more of a guideline, and use what YOU have! For the rice, I used leftover rice I had from a restaurant. It saved me a ton of time!
Recipe:
Ingredients:
-Ground beef, as much or as little as you'd like
-1/2 small onion, white or yellow
-1 jalepeno
-Garlic to taste, minced
-Rice
-1 Bell pepper, top cut off and innards removed
-Cheese
Instructions:
1. Saute ground beef on medium heat, adding veggies to pan when no more pink in beef (don't want to overcook veggies, or maybe you do, maybe YOU like them super soft and want to add them earlier!)
2. Since my rice was already cooked, when my veggies were just becoming soft, I added my rice to the pan with the beef and veggies for just a couple of minutes to let the flavors meld and heat the rice a bit
3. Stuff that pepper baby!!
And... I put my stuffed bell peppers in cupcake tins so they stand straight up. Just a little trick of the trade!! well, in the Kitchen of Mollie at least ☺
I'll stop getting jalepeno business now, hehe... Buenas noches!
