Green bell peppers

[Jaymes]

I like them, too, and although I also am enamored of the current chile pepper darling, Hatch (and in fact, all chile peppers), sometimes nothing will do but that good ol' favorite Green Bell.

[Milt]

As a child, I was occasionally served stuffed green bell peppers by my working mother. Quick and simple was the primary consideration around evening meals.

As an adult, I have never had a problem with bell peppers. I enjoy them raw, and frequently included a few slices in my lunch - along with carrots, celery, radishes, and cucumber slices. Now it is possible to include various colors of bell peppers in my cooking. I don't recall ever seeing anything but green as a child. Perhaps my frugal mother just didn't buy them.

To this day, raw or cooked bell peppers are a frequent part of our meals. No one in our family has ever voiced any distaste for them, but I am the primary consumer of raw bell peppers on a relish plate in our home.

[Darienne]

Now it is possible to include various colors of bell peppers in my cooking. I don't recall ever seeing anything but green as a child. Perhaps my frugal mother just didn't buy them.

Nope, I think they simply were not around. Well not in Quebec or Ontario, anyway.

[pastameshugana]

We love 'em.

Of course, we stuff them with a very rich mixture of beef/cheese/spices when we have a bunch.

They also go nice with my 'steamed pasta' dish, in which I simply steam a bunch of sliced veggies over a pot of cooking pasta, and toss it with some garlicy coconut milk.

[merstar]

I used to love green peppers when they had taste - nice and pungent. For over 10 years, all the green peppers I've tried have been tasteless, no matter where they've come from, including locally grown (FL and NC). When I lived in NYC (until the end of 1998), they were delicious.

[rotuts]

Im not one to rain on anyones parade nor dinner

I cant stand green bell peppers. there it is. they are just undercultivated red peppers that provide the farmer with earlier profits or the only profit is they cant be taken to maturity.

there.

but if you got em and like them well that's a different story.

consider this how much better would be your dinner with a ripe red bell?

anyway each to its own.

[rotuts]

for me its not the issue of "green" it that taste that I @)RRT(^#R%^_

chile green stuffed are very differnt

I love Hot Green Chile but those are not under ripe bells.

we love what we love but them after consider ration:

there is a lot of Yuck!

[patrickamory]

It's funny how green bell peppers evoke such strong emotions... my mother can't stand them either.

To me they don't taste very different from poblanos. Maybe it's like that cilantro thing where certain people have a trigger or something in their DNA?

On the greens being immature reds... this goes for any chile, right? Thai bird chiles, for instance - the greens are younger than the reds. However they are both necessary.

I enjoy both green and red bell peppers. But I find the red peppers much sweeter. To my mind the green peppers have a bitter, more earthy & complex taste. Not hugely so of course - we're talking about green bell peppers. It goes without saying: YMMV.

Edited August 1, 2011 by patrickamory (log)

[rotuts]

I love cilantro cant stand green bell's if I didnt know any better Id never think green bells are in anyway related to red bells. taste wize

I like both green and red chile as a mater of fact probably the green more than the ripe red.

[Shelby]

I didn't know that anyone could hate a green bell pepper.

Is it true? There really isn't a difference between green bell pepper plants and red bell pepper plants? Just a difference in ripeness?

[toolprincess]

My green pepper hating friend calls it the 'green' taste.

[sparrowgrass]

Most bell peppers start out green and change color when they ripen. Some go red, but you can also buy yellow, orange, white, chocolate and purple bell, and they are all the same species, capsicum annuum.

Some hot peppers are also capsicum annuum--Anaheims and jalapenos, for example.

[rotuts]

interesting didnt know the anaheim was related closely to the Bell

I like anaheim and jalepeno, especially if the heat has not be bread oout of them

to me they are very different than the green belll in taste

green bell =

[sparrowgrass]

Rotuts, you would LOVE the jalapenos I have growing now. Mucho Nacho is the cultivar name, they are huge, prolific, early, and HOT, HOT, HOT!! I don't know if they are always this hot--we have had a month of 90+ weather with no rain.

[rotuts]

heat at the end of the growing season helps a lot. I used to grow them in New England !

those in the "mass" supermarket are almost flavorless less they Offend!

not in Mexican markets thou

i still with green thai birds from Indian Markets!