First, kick the oven onto a broil.

Take some french bread (any bread will do, your taste) and slice your style. Rub some olive oil on the up side. Take some seasoning, your favorite, and sprinkle on top. Or nothing at all. Next get some jam or jelly or whatever is rotting in the refrigerator and spread a thin layer on top. Find some ham and apply to the top. Then take some monterey jack cheese and cover the meat. Stick on the middle rack and bake for a few minutes until melted. Eat and watch something on tv.

Grab a bell pepper. Cut it in half lengthwise. Cut out the half of the seed in each side. Take a can of beans, I don’t care which kind, but if you want my choice make ‘em black or red, or both! Strain them out and put in a bowl. Add some chopped onions, tomato, cilantro, rice (if you got it ready), shredded cheese (your choice), garlic salt, pepper, some cumin to taste, some Conecuh sausage, or similar long sausage, part of which you should chop in the bowl and other parts you should slice for topping. Mix ingredients together and scoop into the bell pepper half. Layer some more cheese on top followed by generous amounts of sausage slices. Bake in the oven on the bottom shelf until the sausage is dripping from the top or it is burned. Then grab a beer and head to the couch.

You can do the same thing with other hollow or cored out foods. Think about using a cream cheese dip or onion dip mixed with some steamed chopped spinach, cheese, pine nuts, black olives, beans, fresh basil, spices and maybe some cooked ground beef, sausage or soft scrambled eggs.

P.S. Please share your recipe for Brown Sugar Cake Ice-Cream Sammiches Drizzled With Hot Caramel – stop the truck that sounds delicious!