Crock Pot Tuesday

So, in our house we have crock pot Tuesday.  Tuesday is the day that Jim and I take the ENTIRE DAY OFF! Ok, well that is a little white lie.  We don't really take the entire day off....BUT we don't coach in the morning and we both vowed to stay off of electronic devices for the day.  No IPhones, no IPads, no Laptops, and no no no WORKING.....

Until the 4:30 class of course.  We then head to the gym together for the 4:30 class and usually follow that up with either the competition team when we aren't in the middle of a challenge or a challenge WOD...which puts us all leaving the gym together no earlier than 7 pm.

Knowing that one of us will not be home to get dinner started we've had to become creative in making sure that dinner is on the table when we all end up in the same place at a late time.  It's bad enough that we are eating dinner at 9 pm on Monday's and Wednesday's...it's nice to have dinner by 7:30 on Tuesday.

So.....along came crock pot Tuesday.

I have tried a lot of things in the crock pot.  Your traditional pot roast with potatoes and carrots.  I made beef ribs in one crock pot while the other one had sweet potatoes, an apple, and loads of cinnamon for my famous smashed potatoes recipe.  Of course you can do cabbage and sausages and your chicken is amazingly tender when cooked slowly in the crock pot all day. But just the other day I stumbled across a stuffed peppers crock pot post and I thought to myself.....hm, I need to try that.

My family LOVES stuffed peppers....I don't mind making them.  But the process takes forever and 24 pans later I finally have dinner ready.

SO, I pulled out my old stuffed peppers recipe and decided to go for it:

Step #1:
Line the bottom of my crock pot with red potatoes.
(In the scheme of eating protein, carbs, and fats....I wanted to add a more complex carbohydrate to our meal.  I chose red potatoes.  Although we don't eat them often, I do love me a potato every now and then.)

Step #2:
Cut the tops off of 6 colored peppers.  Discard the stem.  Save remaining parts that can be eaten for stuffing mixture. Place peppers in crockpot.

Step #3:
Create the stuffing.
I used 1 lb ground beef.  1 pound turkey sausage.  6 garlic cloves finely chopped. A couple stalks of thyme.  6-8 green onions finely chopped.   2 eggs.  4 slices bacon (raw) chopped.  The tops of all my peppers finely chopped.  Chopped parsley.  It called for celery finely chopped I didn't have any so I added celery seed for flavor.

Mix everything together. Do not cook.

Step #4:
Stuff peppers with stuffing.

Step #5:
Cook on low for 8 hours.

Step #6:

Enjoy.  I used one pan and this fed 4 adults and 1 child and a dog.  Gage and Brooke each ate 1/2 of a stuffed pepper and 1 potato.  Jim and Brandon each ate 1 1/2 stuffed peppers and 1 potato.  I ate 1 stuffed pepper and 1 potato and didn't finish mine so Alvin enjoyed it for breakfast the next day.  We had one left over pepper that Brandon brought to work and heated up with a potato for lunch the next day.

Jim topped his with sour cream....you could add shredded cheese or parmesean if you're more primal.  

Comments heard from my family....please cook stuffed peppers every crock pot Tuesday!!  These are amazing and yummy.