Trying something new
@GardenGerty (169479)
United States
January 12, 2024 6:28pm CST
When we were at the store yesterday I checked the reduced price produce. I always do.
For 99 cents I got a bag with six small peppers in it. Not sure what kind they are. I will check on them the next time I am in the store. They have a little heat but are basically mild. They are a size similar to the mini sweet peppers and they are whitish or pale green. One was beginning to have a little blush color.
I have a lot of chicken cooked up to put into recipes, so I cleaned the seeds out of these peppers and took off the stems. I filled each small pepper with cooked chicken, and topped with some pimiento cheese sandwich spread. I am cooking them in a cast iron tray for about a half hour. It should be good.
This could be a good light evening meal. I have hot sauce and salsa and sour cream on the table.
I always have food on hand and it seems pretty fun to experiment.
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@celticeagle (189880)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Jan 24
That does sound good. I enjoy experimenting too.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
13 Jan 24
It was very good. We experiment all the time. These peppers had a little heat, more than a banana pepper but no where near as hot as even a jalapeno.
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@celticeagle (189880)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Jan 24
@GardenGerty ........I don't like them really spicy. But I don't mind a mild petter. We used to get Greek ones. Can't remember their name.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
20 Jan 24
@celticeagle I was at the store and did not see any more of these. They look like several different I have found online.
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@kaylachan (84815)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Jan 24
Not much of a fan of peppers, but that does sound interesting. I hope it turns out/turned out well.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
13 Jan 24
It was very good. I am going to be doing a lot with chicken for a few days.
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@kaylachan (84815)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Jan 24
@GardenGerty I'm sure you'll find a lot to do with it. Chicken is one of my favorite protiens.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
13 Jan 24
It was good. It hit that spot that has been telling us to go to a Mexican restaurant, and cost much less. Last time we went to a favorite Mexican restaurant, we both got sick. With this we did not.
@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
13 Jan 24
These are smaller than poblanos and poblanos are dark green. I used to have a chicken poblano recipe that was quite good. I have not made it in years, though.
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@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
13 Jan 24
I'm not one for spicy things like peppers and pimento cheese. I hope you enjoyed the peppers. Have a good weekend.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
13 Jan 24
We like things just a little spicy.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
20 Jan 24
@LindaOHio Peppers actually have a lot of vitamin C.
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@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
13 Jan 24
@GardenGerty Just a little bit of spice for me too.
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@BarBaraPrz (51823)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
13 Jan 24
If the chicken is already cooked and the cheese is in the form of a spread, why would you cooked the assembled items for half an hour? Wouldn't a minute in the nuker do?
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
13 Jan 24
I wanted it to brown a little, and the chicken was cold. If I had been in a massive hurry the microwave would have been my go to.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
13 Jan 24
This sounds a brilliant idea and so tasty..good buy too.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
13 Jan 24
The chicken was free from commodities, peppers were 99 cents, pimiento spread was reduce priced and we used about $1.65 worth. I could not tell about the price of salsa and sour cream but probably less than 50 cents total so we fed two of us for just over $3 It tasted wonderful.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
20 Jan 24
@RebeccasFarm We have not used food bank yet, but we could if we wanted to get in line. They often have frozen meat.I have a friend who works helping organize and hand out the food. Commodities are USDA surplus and we get various proteins all the time. They only come alternate months. We get cans of processed beef and pork, frozen fish and chicken. Canned salmon.
@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
14 Jan 24
@GardenGerty Fantastic Heather..do you know I get one food box a month delivered from the Food Bank..never ever had meat in it at all..a few cans and a few out of date things, thats it. Course, I know where its all going now..
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@Juliaacv (56282)
• Canada
13 Jan 24
Although I dislike peppers, I do love to check out and often buy from the reduced produce section.
I saw online today, that the Loblaws chain (one of Canada's largest grocery chains) has changed their reduced price from 50% off to 30% off. How insulting, it will end up causing trouble especially for those who aren't checking dates as they should and they get meat reduced.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
20 Jan 24
For meat it is usually 40% off, and other shelf stable items. For produce it is 99 cents per mesh bag or bundle of bananas. I think because fresh produce goes bad much faster.
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@Juliaacv (56282)
• Canada
20 Jan 24
@GardenGerty The media made such a big deal over the 20% that today I noticed that the 50% stickers were back.
@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
13 Jan 24
These were very good and we would do this again in a heartbeat.
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@RasmaSandra (98033)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Jan 24
That sounds delicious, I love to experiment with food when I can, I hope you have a good Sunday,
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
20 Jan 24
Clearance racks are how I get to do it.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
13 Jan 24
When I have time I cook up a quantity of something good like chicken and it makes meal time easier.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
20 Jan 24
@just4him That is the smartest way I know to cook.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
13 Jan 24
@GardenGerty I'm glad you make meal time easier by preparing ahead of time.
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
13 Jan 24
It was. I now need to go back to the store and find out exactly what those peppers were. The dish felt like a Mexican restaurant style dish, but cost us much less and did not have a lot of fat in it.
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