Favorite New Orleans Recipes
Bon Tiempe's Bell Peppers Stuffed with Rice and Shrimp

Ingredients

4 bell peppers
1 lb. shrimp (small to medium-sized)
1 medium onion, chopped
½ clove garlic, chopped
2 tbsp. butter
1 small can tomato sauce
1 cup cooked rice
3 bay leaves
¼ cup parsley, chopped
1 egg
½ cup bread crumbs

Cut tops off bell peppers and clean, then set aside. Sauté shrimp, onion, and garlic in butter until cooked. Add tomato sauce and simmer for 10 minutes. Fold in rice, bay leaves, parsley, egg, and bread crumbs. Gently spoon mixture into peppers and place peppers in baking dish with 1 inch of water in bottom. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.

More about Bound for Murder
Laura Childs

New Orleans scrap-booking shop owner Carmela Bertrand’s pre-wedding party is overshadowed when a friend’s intended groom is murdered. Asked by the heartbroken bride to look into the case, Carmela must help her friend pick up the pieces while wrapping up a murder that has more than one lethal loose end.

(A Scrapbooking Mystery)
Berkley (Prime Crime) , November 2004
Featuring: Carmela Bertrand
256 pages ISBN: 0425199231
Paperback
$5.99

Also by Laura Childs:
The Jasmine Moon Murder , September 2004
Photo Finished , January 2004
The English Breakfast Murder , August 2003
Keepsake Crimes , May 2003
Shades of Earl Grey , January 2003
Gunpowder Green , March 2002
Death by Darjeeling , May 2001

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