Any Guy's Food Blog

I like red bell peppers and I've seen people cut them into spears and serve them with dressing plenty of times. The cool thing about bell peppers, is you can also cut them into flat squares. I set out to create an hors d'oeuvre recipe that would use bell peppers with ingredients stacked on top.

Ingredients:

2-3 bell peppers (I recommend anything but green)
Gorgonzola cheese
small green olives

Directions:

Cut open the tops of the bell peppers like you would if you were carving a pumpkin. Cut each pepper into its chambers. Each bell pepper wil have either three or four chambers. Then carefully cut out the veins. Cut each strip into two or three squares depending on the size. The bottoms of each strip may be too narrow for stuffing, so you might not use them.

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.

I prefer a block of wheel of Gorgonzola, but they only had crumbled at the store when I went (which is dumb since it doesn't naturally want to crumble and they clearly had to cut it into small cubes). Place pepper squares on a baking sheet. Layer each square with as much Gorgonzola as you like. Place baking sheet in oven for 7 to 10 minutes. You want the Gorgonzola to become warm and soft.

Remove pepper squares from the oven. Place a green olive on top of each and serve.

Notes:

I'm in love with the Gorgonzola atop the red, orange and yellow bells. I only wish that I had grabbed a block instead of crumbs so that I could have melted a slice rather than have the crumbles fall off. This way I could have also put a little more cheese on each square. Other than that, this was a reasonable recipe. I'd rate it as easy. It doesn't take very long either. Make sure you serve with napkins as this can get a little messy if you have really juicy bells.