Cooking for others, parts 1

There are two important things to know about my living situation right now.
1. I'm one of those vegetarians that doesn't like to eat tofu. Call me crazy, but you can get the same effect with eggplant, various beans and grains.
2. My Grandmother's version of cooking is to open a stouffer's box and put it in the microwave.


Needless to say, I do a lot of cooking (and cleaning). I made some sweet and sour stuffed peppers last week, YUM! Half were vegan, half were meat filled. I'd never parboiled anything before, so the peppers were my grandmother's task, and I made the filling. The vegan ones were filled with homemade vegan chili, rice and homemade sweet and sour sauce. They turned out wonderful! The meat one had rice, various vegetables (carrots, pepper, whatever I had in the fridge), ground beef and the same home made sweet and sour sauce.

Dinner was served, I found out that my Grandpa liked the vegan ones better than the meat ones because of the flavor. Now, I did add come chili type seasoning to the meat ones, trying to make them comparable. The sweet and sour sauce was the same and white rice is white rice no matter what you mix it with. It was the chili! Ha ha! I made a dinner he'd eat! Oh, I threw some pineapple on top to make it look pretty too!

I wish there had been a picture.