Look near the pickles....
12/05/03 11:44 AM
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Heather
Reged: 12/09/02
Posts: 7799
Loc: Seattle, WA
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regular grocery stores should have these, and they're not spicy at all. Just regular red bell peppers, and very mild.
Cheaper option - make your own. Take whole fresh red bell peppers and put them in a shallow baking pan, place directly under your oven broiler, and broil until they blacken and blister. You'll have to turn the peppers several times so they roast evenly.
You can also do this over a gas burner if you have a gas stove, and you can even do it over a barbecue grill in the summer. Any high, direct heat that blackens the peppers will work.
When they're black all over (very scary looking - don't worry - they might even catch fire a little bit in places) take away from heat and put in a paper bag for 20-30 minutes until cool. Once cool, just pull the blackened skin off (it will slip right away), remove stem and seeds. Don't worry about little bits of black that remain, just get most of the skin off and discard it.
There you go! If you have kids this is a super fun kitchen project because you get to deliberately burn food and make something that looks like a complete disaster, but turns out to magically taste great. 
- H
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