Dirty Rice/Stuffed Peppers

This is one of my family's favorites and is one of the items prepared at my parent's Christmas Eve party (you're all invited BTW!) athough mine never turns out exactly like my mom's (go figure) but it's delicious!

1 1/2 lbs Ground beef or turkey
1 1/2 cups chopped yellow onion
3/4 cup chopped green onion
3/4 cup chopped celery
3/4 cup chopped green onions
1 tsp chopped parsley or 1 1/2 tsp parsley flakes
1 tsp chopped garlic (1 clove)
1 Tbs Cajun seaoning or salt and pepper to taste
3-5 cups cooked white rice

Brown meat in large skillet, drain fat except for 2 Tbs, if using ground turkey you may have to add some vegetable oil. Add remaining ingredients except for cooked rice and 1/2 cup water, cover and cook on medium-high until veggies are wilted. Uncover and cook until mixture sticks to bottom of pot, stir frequently so you don't burn but you want it to stick and get a nice brown crust on the bottom. Add enough water to deglaze the pot, make sure you scrub up all the good stuff. Cook down again until it sticks again, deglaze. Cook down one more time, this time add only enough water to deglaze the pan and form a sticky mixture. Freeze this mixture for use later. Thaw and heat in pan or microwave if you want for use then add hot cooked rice (you CAN use brown rice, but it works much better with white) and mix well. Add more for a main dish, add less for stuffed bell peppers:

For stuffed peppers cut the tops off half an inch below the stem of 6 large or possibly 8 medium sized peppers, take all the seeds and veins out. Stuff the peppers with the rice mixture and replace the tops, arrange peppers in a dish with 1 inch of water, cover tightly and bake in 350 degree oven for 45 minutes or until peppers are tender. You may have some rice mixture left over, but I always pack them really tight :-)