Cut up peppers..Slice inhalf length wise, cut around the top stem remove stem and seeds and rinse. If you want to keep the green peppers extra pretty you can bring some water to a boil and put each half in the water for about thirty seconds and remove but that is not necessary. You can also put about a tablespoon of veg oil on youe hand and rub it on the out side of the peppers but again it's optional.

In large bowl mix up one pound of ground meat, dash of salt and pepper, one egg, and one package of saltine crackers. (Crumble these up good with your hand as you are adding them to the meat) If adding onion you chop it small and add it to. You can use dried onions or onion powder if you would rather. Use this ratio if you need more filling. So if you have two pounds of meat use two eggs and two stacks of crackers and so on.

Take small handfuls of meat and stuff each half pepper. I go a bit over the top and make them look like each one is rounded on the top a bit. Place them side by side in your glass cake pan.

Top each one with ketchup, squirt it in the center and let it kind of drip to the edges of the meat.

Bake at 350 for about an hour. Time really varies greatly but how big your peppers are and how much meat you put in them. I wait till the top of the ketchup starts to get a little brown.. Or black really.. It's the yummy part. I usually take the biggest one and cut it in half and make sure the meat is not pink at all because that's just gross :-)

Also! Use this same recipe for an easy meat loaf.. Instead of putting the meat in the peppers chopp the green peppers fine and put them in the meat mix, in the same glass pan shape a loaf being sure to leave at least an inch or so all the way around then pour the ketchup on to it so that it drips down the sides.