Taco Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients:

1 pound ground chicken (or your preferred ground meat)*

1 packet Taco Seasoning

1 can mild (or medium) diced green chilies

1 can Rotel (diced tomatoes with chilies)

2 bell peppers, tops cut off and seeds removed

Cheese (For this dinner we had just acquired some fresh cheese curds from Loleta Cheese Company.  They were fantastic and cheesy and gooey.  Though you can use any kind of cheese you like.)

Green beans or other fresh veggie of your choice, diced small

Instant Rice, the kind in a plastic bag that you can make in your microwave oven

1 lime, zested and then quartered

*Note:

For this trip G and I pressure canned 16 jars of chili and taco meat.  So when we need them, we pull them out of storage and they're ready to go.  Just so you know, I make these the same way if I pressure can them, or not.

Directions:

Brown meat in a skillet.  Add taco seasoning and follow directions on packet.  Add chilies and tomatoes and simmer for 5 minutes, or so.

Layer meat (you'll definitely have meat leftover), cheese and veggies until each pepper is full.  We crunched up some foil around each pepper so it stood upright and placed in a cast iron skillet.  (Those in home kitchens can put on a cookie sheet or casserole and call it a day.  Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, or until pepper is completely cooked through and filling is hot.

Cheese, Meat, green beans.  Repeat!

To make rice, squish the rice packet until the rice is separated from each other and not in clumps.  Open the packet and pour in a piece of foil that you have fashioned into a "bowl" of sorts.  Mix in all the lime zest and one half of the lime, juiced.  Crimp the foil bowl shut and tuck in next to the peppers.  Cover your entire cast iron skillet in foil leaving space over the top of the food for air flow.

All ready to get its foil cap and go on the fire!

On the grate of your campfire place the cast iron skillet and set a time for 30 minutes.  Serve with lime wedges.  We eat this dish we ate right out of the foil packets so we don't have to do as many dishes.