Paleo-ish Food Blog: Paleo stuffed peppers

Stuffed Peppers

So my local market sucks, I usually end up going to a place that's near my gym to do the weekly shop but when I know that the one by me will probably have everything I need then I don't bother. Today I ran out for everything for the stuffed peppers, and only found 4 decent peppers, so I decided instead of adding peppers into the stuffing I would make "Thanksgiving peppers" since I was already using turkey instead of beef to stuff them, I thought a mirepoix with some spinach, mushrooms, and parsley would go great.

Ingredients:
4 Peppers, I like to do at least 2 different colors if you can find them.
1 medium onion, diced
6 big "snack" sized carrots, (or 2 regular ones)
2 stalks of celery plus all of the leaves in the center
3 cloves of garlic minced
1 bunch of flat leaf parsley
2 handfuls of fresh spinach
1 cup of chopped mushrooms (pick your favorite, I used criminis because they are a little more flavorful and could stand up to the other ingredients.
1 lbs 93/7 ground turkey (I found that the 99 has almost no taste...)
1 cup of gluten free chicken stock (unsalted)
2 tsp of poultry seasoning
salt and pepper to taste. (Not big on salt, but trust me, this needs it to bring out all of the flavors.)

Start with a warm pan, add 2 tbsp olive oil.
Sauté the onion, carrot, and celery on medium until tender, then added the garlic. Cook for another minute or 2 until garlic is tender.
Chop mushrooms and toss in, then add spinach. Let cook down.

Meanwhile, chop parsley and celery leaves and mix with ground turkey, add poultry seasoning then add to cooked vegetables and cook through. Add 1 cup of chicken stock and season to taste. Let simmer for 10 minutes.

While that's cooking wash peppers and remove top and seeds.
*side note- I used to have pet rats, and you basically have to google if they are allowed to have something every time you want to feed it to them. So in my searches I found that they were allowed to have peppers, but that soft white part of the pepper was thought to cause cancer, so trim it off. Since most places test drugs on rodents before they test them on humans, I thought- if it causes cancer in rats... could cause cancer in humans. (I am, however, not a doctor.) I do always get rid of the white innards though. (Just in case)

Stuff peppers and make sure you have stock in each pepper or it can dry out. Cook on 350 degrees until pepper is tender.

**If you have left over stuffing it's delicious as a hash with an egg or egg white in the morning!