I told you I would let you know what I did with the leftovers.  I did not want to leave you in suspense.  Also, on a night like this, you may not have anything better to do than read my blog so I thought I would blog while I had a captive audience.  The Butcher and I each ate a stuffed pepper.  I am not telling you how much of the mashed potatoes we ate.  Use your imagination.  After all, we worked up quite an appetite raking up the leaves.  I heated up 2 more peppers for dinner, and 6 stuffed peppers with sauce are in the freezer waiting to be heated up on a night when the Butcher’s Wife doesn’t feel like cooking.

I had some left over ground meat mixture (from the stuffed peppers–see previous post).  Since the weather took a nosedive, I decided to come up with a soup recipe using the ground meat mixture.  I was a little concerned because my meat mixture contained uncooked rice and I wasn’t sure how that would fare.  You have to be a little creative and courageous when you are going into unchartered waters.  I went full steam ahead with my “Stuffed Pepper Soup”.  It really turned out good.  Wait until you see my “secret” ingredient.  It really makes the soup special.

Stuffed Pepper Soup

3/4 pound of stuffed pepper meat mixture

2 peppers cut into 1 inch chunks

1 can Food Club Pizza Sauce (one of my staples)

2 cans of tomato soup

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Roll the meat mixture into small meatballs and place on the bottom of a roasting pan (uncooked).  Put the peppers, pizza sauce and tomato soup on top of the meatballs.  Cover and cook for 3 hours.

The Butcher and I were eating our soup.  I suddenly remembered the left over mashed potatoes in the refrigerator.  I had a brainstorm.  I asked the Butcher how he would like to have some mashed potatoes whisked into his soup.  He was very excited about the prospect.  I got out the mashed potatoes and put them into the soup.  It was a marriage made in heaven.  (Just like the Butcher and I)  What a great “secret” ingredient for your soup, and a great way to use up the leftover mashed potatoes.

Enough blogging for one night.  Until the next time, From our Butcher Block to your Table.