Roasting Peppers (1 banana difficulty)

If you have an open flame (grill or gas stove top), then you really should be roasting peppers.  Heck, you can even roast them in your electric range oven at 375 deg if needed!  It is a pretty easy technique and a good change up from always sauteing your peppers.  The basic goal is to purposefully char the skin of the pepper.  Seriously, anymonkeycan do that!  Here's how:

 WHAT YOU NEED:

Red/Yellow/Green Bell Peppers, Poblano Peppers, or any other larger Pepper
(I think Red and Yellow Bell Peppers work best)
Fire

HOW YOU DO IT:

1.  Rinse the Peppers with water, then dry thoroughly.
2.  Turn you grill/gas stove top burner to at least medium-high and place the pepper directly above the flame until the skin is mostly charred (about 5 min depending on the heat of your flame)
3.  Rotate the pepper at least 90 deg & cook until that side is mostly charred
4.  Repeat step 3 until ALL sides of the pepper are mostly charred
5.  Place the peppers in a bowl covered with plastic wrap or a zip lock bag for 20 min.  This will loosen the skin and allow the pepper to cool.

6.  Grab the stem of the pepper and gently using a knife or your fingers, peel away and discard the charred skin.

(Before and after peeling away the charred skin)

7.  After the skin has been removed, cut and discard the stem and seeds.

There you go!  What's left is a sweet, deliciously roasted pepper that can be added to rice and pasta dishes instead of sauteed peppers.  Anymonkeycan roast peppers!!