10 Week New Meal Challenge: Week 4

For this week's new meal I made a Stuffed Pepper Casserole with sides of French bread and Caesar salad. Stuffing peppers individually can become time consuming, so I loved my grandmother's idea to turn the dish into a casserole. I found a recipe online and my family loved it.

2 lbs. ground beef

4 tbsp. chopped onion

2/3 c. chopped green pepper

2 c. cooked rice

2 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. garlic powder

4 (8 oz.) cans tomato sauce

6 med. green peppers, sliced lengthwise

1 c. mozzarella cheese

Brown meat, onion, and chopped peppers in skillet, stirring occasionally. Drain off fat. Stir in rice, salt, garlic powder, and half of tomato sauce; heat thoroughly. Spray a 9x13 baking pan with cooking spray and line with half of the sliced peppers. Pour half of the meat mixture over the peppers. Layer remaining sliced peppers on top of meat mixture. Pour remaining meat mixture on top. Pour remaining tomato sauce over meat mixture. Cover with foil and bake in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake for an additional 10 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese and bake until melted.

I only loosely followed this recipe. I just added whatever seemed to make it flavorful and used whatever peppers we had in the freezer. My family liked it a lot and I look forward to repeating this meal in the future. 

Check out this week's other meals!

Angelina's Chicken

Clara's Potato Sausage Pie

Jenna's Cashew Curried Beef (unfortunately, Jenna reports that this didn't turn out well this week!)

Katrina's Homemade Pasta/Ravioli

Please email me or leave a comment if you would like to be included in Week 5 of the New Meal Challenge. I am getting so many great meal ideas from reading your links and would be thrillled if more people joined us!