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Monday, June 18, 2007

Pick a pepper or a cuisine

Green Pepper can be too overwhelming, especially raw. I have found that I do not greatly enjoy it on sandwiches, or pizzas. Fajitas? Si. I definitely enjoy them charred a bit and cooked into things like mexican food and spaghetti sauces.

For those of you who don't know, green peppers are part of the holy trinity of Creole/Louisiana cuisine along with onions and celery. The holy trinity is known as mirepoix in French cuisine, which consists of onions, carrots and celery and forms the basis of most stocks and stews. Cross a few Alps and mountain streams and you have soffrito--onions, garlic, olive oil and usually tomatoes.

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