m. 10 stuffed peppers

when i was a kid my grandmother terrorized me with her stuffed peppers, they were green and had a quality (like all of her cooking) that seemed completely incongruous with a sterile culinary childhood in the suburbs, to me her cooking seemed alien and inedible ...

it has taken 20 years and a lot of cooking to help me understand what i was missing and why her food seemed so different, and tonight we crossed the ultimate barrier and made stuffed peppers:

we went for something simple, zucchini and mushrooms mixed with rice with cheddar on top, i'm sure that my grandmother would have been nonplussed by the fact that we skipped the meat, but hopeful this would have made her proud!