MEXICAN FOOD TODAY.........STUFFED PABLANO'S

We can't go too long before we are both hungry for Mexican food.  Being from Mexico I do love the smell of mexcian food cooking.........brings back lots of memories.  If you are a good mexican food cook your kitchen will look something like this:  Cutting board full of chopped onion, tomatoes, cilantro, Serrano's, limes and lots of grated cheese.......several kinds.  Your stove will have a frying pan full of grease for frying tortilla's and another pan with meat sauce cooking.  The wonderful smell of charred pablanos will be coming from the oven. Bob can hardly stand it when the aromas start filtering out from the kitchen.  He tells me at least four times that he may starve to death if he doesn't eat immediately.  I have tons of Mexican food recipes and today will do a stuffed pablano pepper.  I usually make rellanos with an egg batter that fries up puffy and beautiful filled with cheese.........but today........no egg batter.

Roast your pablano's in the oven until charred on all sides........place in plastic bag for 20 min.......peel under cold running water and remove the seeds.  Make your rice in 1 cup boiling chicken broth......add 1/2 cup rice........turn to simmer.......let simmer exactly 20 min.......will be perfect.  Remove the rice to a bowl, fluff and let stand til cool.  In the mean time chop about 3 green onions, 5 or 6 cherry tomatoes, a handful of cilantro and grate about 1 cup of cheddar, or jack whatever cheese you choose.  I had some pearl mozzarella on hand so threw in a few of those.  When your rice is cool enough add to it, sprinkle on chili powder, sprinkle of cumin and sprinkle of dried Mexican oregano, then throw in your chopped onions, tomatoes, cilantro part of the grated cheese AND a can of crab meat.  You could use chopped shrimp and/or scallops.  I would have loved to have had fresh crab but here in OK I have to deal with canned.  It works fine. Finally add your salt and pepper.  Now mix this real well and stuff into your peeled pablanos.  Stuff them really full.  Put them on a greased (or Pammed) cookie sheet.  sprinkle them with a little olive oil and then dump on the rest of the grated cheese...........bake 20 min at 350 degrees.  We had these with refried beans and hamburger tacos.  Bob is checking out the backs of his eyelids in the recliner..........totally satisfied!