If you are not making these Real Texas appetizers you are really missing out
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Usually the guys cook these out on the pit while they are cooking brisket and ribs. They cook and eat Stuffed Jalapenos to help tide them over the hunger pains that the cold Lone Star gives them. An-ti-ci-pation…
I have found that I can also make them inside too. You don’t need the special occasion of firing up the pit to enjoy these Real Texas Stuffed Jalapenos.
Real Texas Stuffed Jalapenos
5 to 6 large fresh Jalapenos (large enough to fit the tip into your Jalapeno grate, and approximately 1 to 2 Jalapenos per person)
Cream Cheese
1/2 slices of Pepper Bacon (1/2 slice per Jalapeno)
Wooden Toothpicks
Rubber gloves (A must, or you will pay later)
Wearing rubber gloves, rinse the fresh Jalapenos completely. Cut the top with the stem off of the Jalapenos. Using a potato peeler, insert and turn scraping out the inside seeds and rinse out.
Stuff cream cheese inside Jalapeno, making sure not to tear the Jalapeno. Overfill the Jalapeno to make a little cap. Wipe off the cream cheese from the outside of the Jalapeno.
Wrap the 1/2 piece of bacon around the tasty Jalapeno and secure with the wooden toothpick and set the Jalapeno in the Jalapeno holder or grate. It helps if the Jalapeno grate is shaped like an armadillo or the shape of the Great State. Most craft fairs will have those or I’ve seen a Texas shaped grate at H.E.B. and other places.
Set the grate on a foil lined broiler pan and cook in the oven at 350 degrees until the bacon is cooked and the tops of the cream cheese are golden brown.
Serve as an appetizer right out of the oven! 
David’s reaction when I took some to him outside where he was working?
“Git me another beer…..Can I have some more jalapenos?”
My response? “I just patted his belly, smiled and walked back into the house.”
Try these stuffed Jalapenos, they are de-licious and your bunch will be asking for more too!
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Hey little girl, have you ever tried using some of the flavored cream cheese? I’ll bet these would be delicious using the cream cheese flavored with onion. Other flavors would probably work just as well.
Yes, this is a great idea! You can also mix different herbs and spices into the cream cheese.
Someone told me to add chopped shrimp in with the cream cheese too.
I’d love other ideas!
Amen about the gloves Ramona. I have made some with crumbled venison and pork sausage that we make. Just mix it up with the cream cheese.
Rusty, your Stuffed Jalapenos sound delicious! Wish I had some of your homemade sausage.
Funny story: When I first moved to Texas, I wanted to make some homemade salsa. I didn’t wear gloves. I chopped the Jalapenos first, then chopped the onions. My eyes started to water, and what did I do? I rubbed my eyes with a tissue, and stopped my sniffles. About an hour later, my face was on fire with little red bumps, my hands including under my fingernails were also on fire. I used my fingernails to scrape out the seeds of the Jalapenos. I was miserable. Held my hands in ice water for hours. Called the ER and they said really wasn’t anything to do. Rubbed Aloe Vera all over my face and hands, and did I tell you….kept my hands in ice water! Wished I could have held my face in the ice water!
Big lesson learned!
I use to make these stuffed Jalepen’s years ago and your article just reminded me of them again so today I made these stuffed Jalepeno’s with dinner today for the family and they went over big. They were wiped out in no time flat!
They don’t even have time to cool off! Glad you enjoyed!
Hello Ramona!
I have family in Texas, when they came down one year for 4th of July and brought this stuffed jalapeno idea down our California family went nuts for stuffed peppers! I now make them at every BBQ. I have stuffed them with shrimp, waterchestnuts marinaded in brown sugar. I wraped them with maple bacon…pepper bacon! I mean the possibility are endless!
I’m so glad to hear about your success in California…isn’t that just far west Texas? lol
Love your ideas of different stuffings, I also use different bacons to wrap.
Ill be darn thats true! West it is! silly me
Keep doing your updated videos…ill be watching!
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