Recipes for Stuffed Banana Peppers (and what to do with Squash)

Here's an easy reciepe that I use all the time. Brown bulk sausage and drain thoroughly. Either melt a soft chesse product or make a quick white sauce and add your favorite cheese to it. Mix the cheese (or cheese sauce) into the sausage. Slice the top of the banana pepper off and make a slit down one side, seed the pepper. Spoon the sausage and cheese mixture into the pepper. Cover the entire pepper with store-bought canned cresent rolls to seal them up ( Large peppers may take up to 3 cresents, but with this , the more the better). Bake according to the cresent roll can. These are simply delicious. I usually make 6-8 peppers and refrigerate the left overs. A friend of mine gave me the reciepe, but she uses hamburger instead. If you freeze your peppers whole, you can thaw them out and fix this any time of the year.

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You're right that squash doesn't lend itself to lots of different preparations. You can stew it, steam it, grill it or fry it and that's about it

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From Cajun Cooking and excellent:

Ingredients for Smothered Squash

4-5 Yellow Squash, sliced
1 medium Sweet Onion, chopped
1 Red Bell Pepper, sliced
4 slices bacon
2 cups water or chicken stock
Tony’s or Salt & Pepper to taste
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup Italian bread crumbs
1 cup Parmesan cheese

Cooking Directions for Smothered Squash

Begin by heating 2 tablespoons olive oil in a 6 quart pot on medium heat (#6).

Cook the bacon. Set aside on a paper towel to drain and cool.

Saute‘ onion and bell pepper until softened.

Add 2 cups water.

Season with small amount of Tony’s or Salt and Pepper.

Add the sliced squash.

Crumble the bacon and add to the squash.

Stir well.

Cook covered for 20 minutes.

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Metrybrah?

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Should be in Webster's.

wasnt that the little bar across the street?

Similar to what Lester recommended.

Cook up some breakfast sausage. Stuff the banana peppers with the sausage and cream cheese. Wrap with a slice of bacon. Stick a water soaked toothpick through to hole the bacon in place. Grill until the bacon is done.

Not very healthy, but an awesome treat.

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you havent lived until you spend the night in the Landmark

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I'll pass.

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I'll pass.

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Me too. I think the only advantage is that Whole Foods is down the street.