MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06 Title: Dirty Dave's Stuffed Peppers Categories: Beef, Vegetables, Rice, Sauces Yield: 6 Servings 6 lg Bell peppers; cored 1 lb Ground beef 1 c Rice; cooked -OR- 1 c Instant rice 26 oz Jar marinara sauce 2 ts Salt 1/2 ts Garlic granules 1 md Onion; diced small 1 ts Dried leaf oregano Cut a slice from stem end of peppers. Remove seeds and wash thoroughly. Put the peppers in the microwave and nuke for one minute. Wait a minute, then nuke for a second minute. Remove peppers. Dice the onions. An "as seen on TV" onion chopper with the small die plate works very well here. Dice the tops that you removed from the peppers at the same time. Pull on your rubber gloves and dump everything except the peppers and marinara sauce into a mixing bowl. knead and squeeze and mix like you are making mud pies until all ingredients are well distributed. Stuff each pepper and stand upright in crock pot. Pour marinara sauce over peppers. Cover and cook for 3 hours (approx) on high. Or 5 hours on low. Test a pepper with fork for doneness. Serve with sauce over the pepper. Side with au gratin or mashed potatoes and green beans or corn. If serving mash - the sauce makes an excellent gravy. Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen MMMMM