May 09

Sweet Stuffed Red Bell Peppers (2 portions)

Ingredients:
150g extra lean beef mince
3x sweet red bell peppers
1x red chili
1x fresh tomato
1x small red onion
1x large garlic clove
½ cup ricotta cheese
½ cup grated gouda cheese

Calories: 540 per portion

Method:

Pre-heat your oven to 180?C.

In a blender, blitz the onion, chili, tomato and garlic together until you have a smooth mixture. Dry heat a frying pan and brown your mince for about 5mins before adding your tomato mix – season to taste. Cook together for 5-10mins until the meat has absorbed the sauce – your mixture should be firm rather than sloppy.

Half your bell peppers removing the seeds, then layer your ricotta cheese, followed by the mince mixture and lastly a sprinkle of gouda cheese.

Place in the oven for 15-20mins, and then allow cooling for 5mins before serving.

Enjoy!

Michelle

Hello everyone *waves*, my name is Michelle and I’m a food aholic!
For the most part I’m a happy kinda gal. I love being a wife and a mother to my furr-kids. I absolutely love cooking and spending time in the kitchen and pretty much everything else that goes with being a girl from make-up to fashion and dressing up, going dancing and gossiping with my girlfriends, the works! Of course I love watching movies and series and listening to MUSIC too (mostly alternative although I’m branching out a bit more theses days, must be mellowing in my older age).
Like a lot of people out there, I’ve had my issues with weight gain even from an early age, which I will go into a bit more detail in my future blogs. I’ve put on, the lost, then put back on, and I’m not talking about the odd few kilograms we come back from holiday with, I’m talking about excessive gains and losses. But that been said, I think I’ve finally gotten my whole head around leading a balanced lifestyle. I say balanced because I’m not perfect, I still enjoy a glass of wine and eating out, but I keep it all within moderation and for once I don’t feel guilty, and way more in control of my own actions.
Anyways, the whole reason I started this blogging business is because of a photo album I created on Facebook called “Food 101”. Basically it contains pictures of my daily meals, which I originally started doing to keep myself in check with whatever I was putting in my mouth (was going with the accountability factor). Long story short, just about all my friends responded positively and have been pushing me (in a good way) to get something off the ground in order to help others by sharing my story. So here I am, giving it a go ….. ENJOY!