Potluck.

I hosted a "potluck." Nobody else brought food, except for some chips and dip. I'm okay with this- I love to cook and cooked way too much, but I have to note that people here suck at potlucks. (Although the homemade bean dip was very good.)

I made this stuffed pepper recipe from the Deborah Madison Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone cookbook. I used green peppers from my garden instead of red. I skipped out on the bread crumbs because I don't have a food processor/good way to crumble bread. I love the stuffing a lot. I think next time I try this, I will just cut up the peppers and put them in the mix. No point in stuffing. Makes it too hard to eat.

(I also made a tomato pasta dish that I don't care to elaborate on. It wasn't wonderful. I think I will freeze it though- it would be good in soups.)

For dessert I made strawberry cupcakes using overly ripe strawberries from my health food store. It told me to puree, but again, I have no food processor, so I mashed them up with a potato masher. (I'm not actually sure if it is technically a potato masher. That's just all I've ever used it for. Until yesterday.) I iced the cupcakes with this super simple frosting. The cupcakes ended up tasting almost like strawberry shortbread- the strawberry flavor wasn't entirely throughout the entire cupcake, but it was pretty decent.