A Day With The Dackel

What an ordinary day today was. Well, except for the strange man, who caught me in my back yard in my pajamas early this morning, while I was walking Greta. I mean, aside from that, it was pretty normal.

Yes, a strange man appeared while I was outside walking Greta. It was such a lovely morning that I had slipped over to the garden to check on my crops. I have the tiniest Summer Squash, and all the other plants are flowering, so hopefully I will have zucchini and cucumbers soon…

I digress.

The man was hired by my neighbors to cut down a bunch of trees. These trees are not on our property, however the woman that owns the house next door is a tree fanatic and actually sued another man for cutting a tree down on her property line. Her husband had assisted the tree cutter, so we all thought that by the time it got to court it would be thrown out. That didn’t happen and the poor tree cutter had to pay her $5000.00 for that one tree! So while I stood there in my pajamas, feeling practically naked, even though I had perfectly nice pajamas on, I warned this man about her.

He disappeared and we have not seen him or heard his chair saw since.

I was actually quite productive after that because I ran inside, dressed in work clothes and proceeded to clear up some things inside the house before heading back outside and weeding in the garden.

In the afternoon I tossed down my gardening gloves and came in and whipped up one of Hubby’s favorites. I made “Stuffed Green Peppers” for dinner. There isn’t much that I cook that Hubby doesn’t like. He is so easy. The recipe is in the extended entry.

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Baking Time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

* 2 large green bell pepper
* 1 lbs. ground turkey
* 1/2 c. onion
* 1.2cup chopped green & red peppers
* 1/4 tsp. garlic (I used minced garlic from a jar)
* 1/2 c. rice (I use brown rice)
* 2 tbs spaghetti seasoning
* 1 jar tomato sauce
* 1 tbs oregano seasoning
* 1/4 c. fat free mozzarella or cheddar cheese (I used regular part-skim cheese for 1 extra pt. per pepper)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350º. Cut knob off pepper. Slice peppers in half and remove seeds and membranes. Blanch peppers for 5-8 minutes in boiling water. Place pepper shell in casserole dish. Saute turkey, garlic, onion, and peppers until done, add cooked rice. Mix tomato sauce with oregano & spaghetti seasoning, then pour 1/2 into pan with turkey mixture… Cook until hot. Stuff cooked mixture into pepper and pour remaining tomato sauce over peppers. Cover and bake for 55 minutes. Uncover. Top with cheese and bake another 10-15 minutes or until pepper is tender.

Yields: 1/2 pepper (4 points)

(You will have leftover filling. I usually make up some cabbage rolls with the remainder.)