Pick a Pepper

Pepper are amazing when you think about it.  They have tons of varieties, long, short, red, yellow, green, hot, mild and in-between.   Peppers are versatile...you can do just about anything with them:

• raw peppers / slices: try them with some hummus, have them in a salad, eat them as a snack
• roast them in the oven
• stuff them with goat cheese and wrap them in proscuitto and bbq them up (you can do this with a jalapeno, a pablano, or even use sweet bell peppers in larger flat slices)
• use them in stir fry or put them on pizza
• make a hot pepper sauce with the habanero peppers to enhance any dish (if ya like it spicy)
• use fresh chili peppers on pizza, pasta, chili...anything goes

Nutrient Information

• rich in vitamin C, B6 and folate
• rich in potassium and fibre
• contain lycopene and beta-carotene (two precursors for Vitamin A)

How hot is your pepper?

The Scoville scale is a measurement of the HEAT or the amount of capsaicin, which is a chemical compound that can stimulate the nerve endings in mucous membranes.  

Scoville Scale of HEAT!

One of my favourite peppers has to be Pablano peppers not to be confused with Anaheim peppers which are a paler green or Pasilla peppers.  Pasilla peppers are actually a dried type of chili pepper, but I have noticed that many supermarkets mislabel the Pablano's and call them Pasilla's (when I asked at the grocery store about this, they had no answer for me...go figure!). 

Anaheim Peppers

Pablano Peppers

Pasilla Peppers

AND.....What did I make for dinner tonight?  

Well, of course, we made Mexican!  We had some ground beef with some spices (okay I cheated and used the seasoning mix), soft tortillas (both flour and corn), hard tacos, shredded cheese, plain Greek yogurt  (tastes better than sour cream!) and salsa.   I also made my own healthy version of chili relleno's by just baking them in the oven with a slice of white aged cheddar, and then served them with the ground beef and trimmings.  The end result was delicious!

My oven baked Pablano pepper with cheddar cheese

OMG...that looks soooo goooooood

Serve it up with ground beef and cheese and plain yogurt...and of course I had a few corn tortillas too