Stuffed Jalapenos wrapped in Bacon for the MUNCHIES!!

This is one of my favorite cures for the munchies! Takes some time to prep and cook so roll a fat bone for while you are working on them and by time they are done the munchies will have already kicked in. The smell through out the house is great and makes the 30-40 minutes they take to cook seem like forever. That is usually a good time to follow that bone up with a nicely packed bowl. 

I don't really like hot/spicy foods. Shit I can barely eat the Taco Bell Mild Sauce. Sometimes if you get the right Jalapenos they will not be hot at all. BUT No matter how hot they are I will grab a glass of Milk, and a rang to wipe the sweat of my head and chow down. I will eat the whole damn tray, crying the whole time if I have to. They are that damn good!

There is no sure fire way to know that a jalapeno is hot or not, but there are some clues that are right occasionally. Larger, smoother, and more evenly green jalapenos tend to be less hot. Small ones are more likely to be hot. Wrinkled ones are more likely to be hot. Ones with different shades of green or orange tend to be hot. But none of this is a guarantee. I have had large, smooth, evenly green ones be flaming hot, but more often then not, they are not. 

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This is not laid out like a normal recipe. For the most part each picture is a step. Figured stoners would enjoy the picture pages more. Plus I like it that way. 

This is what you will need.

The tools required to get the job done. Along with an oven. Just a baking sheet, bowl (a food bowl lol), fork, spoon, cutting board, and knife.

8 Medium to large Jalapenos. In the end, like magic you will have 16 

Oscar Mayer MAPLE Bacon. There are a couple reasons I choose this. I have used other types but the sweetness of the Maple goes so well with the cheese and jalapenos. Also, these packs tend to have 16-18 slices of bacon in them. You will need 16 to make a full batch. Leftover bacon I toss in the nuke machine and eat those while I wait. 

I don't know if there is a difference between the "Dips" powder or the regular powder. I just always used this. 

8oz Philly Cream Cheese. Yeah the little box. The one that says 8oz on the bottom left. 

Set that sucker to 350 degrees before you get working on everything else. Don't get baked first and forget. I was pissed when I came back 15 minutes later to check on them just to find them sitting in the cold oven. Was wondering why I didn't smell them. 

At this point I usually toss the cream cheese in the bowl and let it soften up more while I get the peppers ready. 

Pop the stems off each of the peppers. The will POP right off and we don't need those suckers. 

Cut the Jalapenos in half

Yeah, cut them ALL in half. Now you got 16! Woo I know my Maths.

I usually put the grocery bag in the trash can but covering the top. I do this because I almost always drop at least one pepper while getting the seeds and ribs out. And yes, even without the bag I will dig through the trash to find the dropped pepper. Don't worry, I rinse it off before using it. I think. 

Use your spoon to scrape all the seeds and ribs out of each of them into the trash can. 

You probably don't have too, but I always score the cheese with the fork before adding the Ranch Powder. 

Even after sitting for a bit and being scored you may want to toss the cheese in the microwave for like 5 to 12 seconds depending on how strong your microwave is. This will just make it easier to mix in the powder. You don't want it runny though, just soft.

Add the Ranch Powder to the soft cheese. 

Get with the mixing! I use the fork at first but then the spoon to get the cheese at the bottom that  the fork couldn't get. 

Start stuffing peppers. I use the spoon for this also. Make sure they are full. You can over fill them if you want and have enough cheese but it does puff up and run out when cooking. 

Yeah, you want that cheese in all of them. 

I almost always have a little cheese left over. My son like to eat this. I have also used the left over cheese with the 1 or 2 pieces of bacon that were left over to make a bacon cheese ranch dip. Just cook a strip or 2 of bacon in the nuke machine and crumble it into the  left over cheese. Enjoy with tortilla chips or whatever. I ate mine with a spoon since I had ran out of chips

Open up your bacon and count the slices. Make sure you have at least 16. If not, you can just split a slice in half and use it on the two halves of the smallest pepper. 

FYI: Something about the way Oscar Mayer cuts the Maple bacon causes this kind of crack. A lot of times each slice will break at this point and you have a bunch of little pieces of bacon. I look at all the packages on the shelf at the store to find the one that seems to be the most together. This pack was the winner when I went today. 

This is the messy part. You need to wrap each stuffed pepper with 1 slice of bacon. I wrap them a little  at an angle to cover the whole things. Kind like the stripes of a barber pole or candy cane. Excess bacon I just wrap back up over the bottom to close it off. This helps hold the cheese in. Plus you can never have too much bacon.

Yep lazy ass, you will have to wrap them all. 

Throw them suckers in the over (should already be preheated to 350 or did you get high and forget?)  You want them in there for anywhere from 30-40 minutes. Depending on if your oven is a piece of shit or not. Mine is not, but they take 45min in my sister's.wtf It's torture to wait that long. Might have to smoke another bowl while waiting. 

Mmm just about to be done. See the cheese that oozed out turning brown? 

They are done!! Let them cool on the stove for like 2 or 3 minutes if you can. They are best when you eat them as hot as you can stand.

I eat them 3 at a time but I have gotten baked and eaten the entire tray of 16 myself. Yeah I was feeling sick afterwards but it was good and I would do it again. lol ENJOY!!