Green peppers from garden inspire recipe for round steak

[Chefnot]

The green pepper plants in our backyard "pot garden" are almost as prolific as the tomato plants. So with three or four fresh peppers a day coming in the kitchen, I look for ways to use them. Stuffed bell peppers are a favorite with ham, shrimp, ground beef or just leftovers. Another favorite recipe is one Dot Steen and I found several years ago in a Cecily Brownstone column. We worked with it, modified it slightly and came out with a main dish you can't beat.


Green peppers from garden inspire recipe for round steak

Round steak is a bit of the past in this family.

[Food Network Fan]

I prefer the cubed or "bucket" steaks. Although I haven't seen them do the bucket since I was a kid. I even remember what the bucket looked like.

[Pluff Mudder]

Bucket steak? That's a new one on me.

[Food Network Fan]

Maybe it's a regional thing. Steak Recipes - Swallow Your Tongue Bucket Steak

We always just made it in gravy though. I can't eat sour cream.

[Chefnot]

I think it's just referring to what we call cubesteak here. Why can't you eat sour cream?

[Food Network Fan]

Allergic. Makes my mouth, tongue and throat sore.

It is cubed steak. The store butcher shops here used to put it in a paper bucket (think smaller takeout fried chicken container) stacked with paper between. I haven't seen it that way in years though.

[Chefnot]

That's got to be tough, the sour cream I mean.

Did I ever tell you I make the baddist cubesteak you ever ate?

[Food Network Fan]

I like sour cream. It just doesn't like me.

I usually just fix cubed steak in a brown gravy. My daughter loves the gravy for mashed potatoes. It's a big winter comfort meal here.

[Pluff Mudder]

I do my cube steak in the brown gravy and with onions - like Paula did on Throwdown. And, of course you have to have mashed potatoes and some good bread to mop up the gravy with.

[Chefnot]

Mom use to make it all the time and I know my kids would like it as well. Not sure why I don't. Hec, I loved it.

Btw...I really need a definition of comfort food.