Just start with a couple of bell peppers. I thought yellow and orange looked seasonal.
I also cut of the bottom of one of my peppers so that it would stand upright.
You get the idea.
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I wanted to make some stuffed peppers and saw an easy way to dress them up for Halloween by simply carving your peppers like a Jack-O-Lanterns. Cute, huh? (He's a messy eater, this one!) This was going to be a quick-and-easy meal since Rod wanted to clean up the leaves in the yard, and I have a bajillion books to read for Sibert. No time for something fancy. Just start with a couple of bell peppers. I thought yellow and orange looked seasonal. Cut off the tops of your "Jack-O-Lanterns" and remove the seeds. I also cut of the bottom of one of my peppers so that it would stand upright. Yeah, I know I'm not the greatest carver, but the faces are going to get all smooched during cooking anyway. You get the idea. Then fill your peppers. This is the best part, because you can fill a pepper with whatever you want - a vegetarian mixture, a rice mixture, a meat mixture. Originally I planned to use up some meat I had in the freezer, but then I thought, no, I have just a little of the tamale bake filling left from Day 10. I would finish that up. Anything left over from the Franken Boo-ritos would also work. So, I filled the peppers with the tamale mixture. Lookin' good, right? Since mine had that Mexican flavor going on, I pulled out a jar of salsa also leftover in the refrigerator and poured that into a 5-qt crockpot. You could add italian sauce or whatever works with your recipe. Then I set the two peppers in and placed the top on, and set the crockpot on low. After three hours, the peppers were ready. Just pour a little of your sauce over the top of the mixture inside the pepper. Nice and moist. Good flavor. Mix and match your pepper tops if you want a little variety. Done. Couldn't be simpler. Another good option for that Trick-or-Treat dinner to get you in that spooky mood.
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I remember the excitement of visiting the public library as a child. The magic and suspense of reading favorites like The Velvet Room and The Secret Garden tugged at my imagination. Biographies of George Washington Carver and Betsy Ross allowed me to see the lives of those who came before me and to appreciate their accomplishments. Poetry collections like my favorite The Tall Book of Poems, which I took with me on sleepovers, introduced me to a range of poetry where I could consider how the placement and rhythm of words affected your mood – sometimes bouncy, other times melancholy. Plus, I really loved the way that book felt in my small hands. My goal in writing children’s books, I think, is an attempt to recreate those feelings, those early years of reading books where everything seemed possible.
I received an M.F.A. in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University and won the Karen and Philip Cushman Late Bloomer Award from SCBWI. I worked as a Children's Librarian for 20 years and still prefer to read books written for young people. I have two Cavapoo dogs named Prince Albert and Daisy Wu, and a black kitten named Mortimer. I am married and split time between homes with my husband Rod in Dayton, OH and in Cadiz, KY where we enjoy our pontoon boat on Lake Barkley.
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