We use them in all kinds of meat recipes in here.

You can even cut them in tiny strips and saute them with onion and tomato over low heat in a skillet and once they're nearly cooked, add some eggs and stir a few times until the eggs are cooked well. We call it menemen and melemen in some regions and eat it especially for breakfast.

I make an awesome pizza with sliced banana peppers, heavy tomato sauce, and pineapple. Sounds weird but it's amazing. Sometimes I add chicken.

Hungarians call it Lecsó pepper.

I use it in Ratatouille instead of bell peppers; cooks faster and tastes better.

My Mom also makes some kind of a ricotta spread and stuffs it in these peppers, leave it in the fridge for a couple hours and then slice it. So pretty and a great summer appetizer on crackers.

My favorite is an old Gourmet recipe, egg noodles, sliced banana peppers, brown butter and feta. Best!

Slow cook the peppers with sirloin steak and onions and a bit of beer. Crisp up some sliced potatoes and cook some pinto beans. Assemble all ingrediants into a tortilla and add toppings (sour cream, cheese, etc). Yuuuuuum.

I beg to differ, but Hungarians make lecso=lecho
out of it, (recipe on my blog) This kind of pepper is of Hungarian origin, and is usually called, Hungarian wax pepper, in the supermarkets, especially here, in S. Florida. You can make some really nice scrambled eggs with it, or spice up your Gulyas, or chicken paprikas. Must be very careful using it, it is very hot.

My absolute favourite way is to hold over a flame, remove the skins, chop, and toss with parsley, lemon juice and olive oil. And a little bit of feta sometimes. So delicious...

Oh, and I have another recipe posted here:

http://cauldronsandcrockpots.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/cheesy-polenta-with-pan-fried-chillies/

My girlfriend and I made really good, and healthy stuffed banana peppers last night. We stuffed them with Gimme Lean fake breakfast sausage and some quinoa as a filler. We both eat meat but the gimme lean taste great and is so much better for you. It was very good. We used a mix of sweet and spicy peppers. Also, we chopped a cayenne pepper into the tomato sauce

The gimme lean version was quite tasty. We were basing it off an Italian recipe for stuffed banana peppers where you stuff them with Italian sausage, parmeggiano reggiano, breadcrumbs, garlic, basil, and an egg and then cover it in tomato/marinara sauce and bake it. Also delicious, but higher in fat.

This past weekend we stuffed our garden's banana peppers with Italian sausage, drizzled with olive oil and grilled them. We topped them with a spicy tomato sauce from 101 Cookbooks. http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/five-minute-tomato-sauce-recipe.html

I work in an office and I don't have a great garden...

I use them instead of green peppers in everything. While I like red bell peppers, green bells just taste bitter to me, raw or cooked. So I use Hungarians, hot, sweet or half sharp, instead. Since I live in Milwaukee, these peppers are available in farmers markets or grocery stores year round.

I smoked a whole mess of these for about an hour and combined them with sauteed onion in the blender (be sure to de-seed as the seeds get very bitter after the smoke). Adjust the seasoning to taste with salt, sugar, acid etc, and it makes for a killer relish.

On the grill. By the way, the Chili Festival in Hatch NM is usually on Labor Day - it's a worthwhile event door chili lovers.

"The good thing about working in an office is that everyone has a great garden." Huh? I am not following this logic. But I love some banana peppers thrown on the grill and mixed in with just about everything. Too bad I don't work in an office...

What I actually meant to saywas, the good thing about working in MY office is that everyone here has a great garden. Sorry for the confusion....

my mother is hungarian and i grew up enjoying these the simplest way possible: sliced on a piece of good rustic bread drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with a little salt. mmmm, be careful with the seeds though, they bring the heat!

Lee Brothers' pimento cheese, aka Southern cheese relish:

http://helenair.com/lifestyles/food-and-cooking/article_144d013a-7e95-11df-9251-001cc4c002e0.html

I recently visited a restaurant called "DeSha's" in Lexington, Kentucky that served the most amazing Banana Pepper Eggrolls! Cut both ends off of the pepper, remove seeds and stuff with strips or shredded mozzarella cheese. Roll in an egg roll wrapper and then fry in oil. Serve with marinara sauce. Actually, try frying the peppers by themselves a bit first...otherwise they don't have as much flavour.