Stuffed italian sweet peppers recipe

First, apologies for the really poor quality pictures from the previous post.  Not sure what happened there.

Now, the recipe!  Note that I'm terrible at keeping track of the quantities of herbs and spices I use.  I just throw them in until it's tasty.

Ingredients:

• Italian sweet peppers (some number of them)
• 1lb ground beef
• olive oil
• 1 c israeli couscous
• 1 red onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 medium tomatoes, chopped
• 1 jalapeno, diced fine
• salt
• pepper
• paprika (1tbsp maybe?)
• fresh basil (2tbsp maybe?)
• garam masala (2tsp maybe?)

Sautee half the onions with some salt in the olive oil until translucent (mine got a little brown).  Add the garlic, cook for another minute or two, then add the ground beef.  At this time, start cooking your israeli couscous according to its instructions.

When beef is half cooked, add half the tomatoes and basil and continue to cook until beef is fully cooked through.  Drain thoroughly.  Bring back to stove, add rest of the onions, tomatoes, basil, along with the jalapenos.  Add salt and pepper to taste, along with paprika and garam masala.  Continue to cook until everything is incorporated and looks yummy.  At this point, your couscous should be done, so add that in there too.  Cook for another 3 or 4 minutes, just to get some of the flavors into the couscous.

Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 350 deg F.  Cover a half sheet pan with aluminum foil.  Take your peppers, remove the stems and seeds, but try to maintain them whole.  

Now, stuff your filling into the peppers!  Get as much in as possible, it's tasty stuff!  I had 5 peppers, and only used about 1/2 of my filling, so plan accordingly.  Once the peppers are filled, very lightly coat them with olive oil.  Bake for around 45 minutes, remove from oven, and enjoy!