Cheesy Stuffed Peppers - green bell peppers

Method

• Start by cleaning the green peppers.
• Cut off the tops, clean out the insides (take out the seeds and membranes), and rinse and dry them.
• Then, in a pot of salted boiling water, boil the peppers for a few minutes, just until they start to soften.
• Remove them from the water.
• Drain and pat dry.
• Sprinkle the inside of the peppers with salt, and set aside for later.
• Preheat oven to 350 F.
• Pull out a very large skillet and heat it over medium heat.
• Once hot, add beef and diced onions and cook until the meat is cooked through and no pink remains, about 5 minutes.
• Mop up the extra fat with a paper towel and then season with salt and a touch of pepper.
• Into the meat and onions, add canned diced tomatoes, rice, water (thats been mixed with the bouillon cube) and Worcestershire sauce.
• Give it a good stir, cover, and simmer to let the rice get tender.
• This should take about 15 minutes.
• You may need to lower your heat a touch, but as long as your mixture is simmering, and not boiling, youll be fine!
• Remove from heat and stir in the first amount of cheddar cheese.
• Place some of the beef and rice mixture into the bottom of each green pepperjust enough to fill half of each pepper.
• Set these upright in a small, glass baking pan.
• It should be big enough so that all 6 peppers can fit, but small enough that they wont tip over.
• Set this aside to make the tomato sauce.
• Combine the condensed tomato soup with a splash (or two) of water, or until the tomato soup becomes the consistency of gravy.
• It should run off your spoon, but not be watery.
• Top the beef mixture with the tomato sauce and top that with the rest of the beef and rice mixture.
• Then top with more tomato sauce.
• Top with more cheese.
• As much or as little as you like.
• Cover the pan with foil.
• Make sure to spray the foil with baking spray before covering the pan with it!
• Bake at 350 F for about 30 minutes, or until heated through and the cheese is melted.
• If your cheese isnt melted after 30 minutes, remove the foil, and broil (watch it the entire time) until the cheese is melted to your liking!
• Slightly adapted from Allrecipes recipe for Stuffed Green Peppers I.