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I love pumpkins, and every year I make at least one new pumpkin dish, either sweet or savory.
This year, I made a recipe that GB posted. Very easy, and a fun presentation, but kind of bland, as written.
My pumpkin was good-sized, so I used two pounds of ground beef, added 4 cloves of minced garlic (could have used more), plus garlic powder, and cooked it for TWO and a half hours, until the pumpkin was fully tender and the stuffing piping hot.
This really is a great presentation, and I would experiment with different filling ingredients and seasonings.
Maybe lamb stew.
Lee
DINNER IN A PUMPKIN (GB)
Medium sized pumpkin (about 4 pounds)
1-1/2 pounds lean ground beef
1/3 cup chopped green pepper
3/4 cup chopped celery
3/4 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 Tablespoon brown sugar
1 4-ounce can mushrooms
1 can cream of chicken soup
2 cups cooked rice
Using a sharp knife, cut lid from pumpkin and scoop out
pumpkin seeds and excess membrane with a scraping tool.
In a large skillet, combine ground beef, chopped green
pepper, chopped celery, and chopped onion and cook over
medium heat until ground beef is browned. Add next seven
ingredients to skillet. Mix well and place mixture into
pumpkin cavity. Place lid on pumpkin. Place pumpkin on a
foil-lined cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 1-1/2
hours.
Uncooked pumpkin
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Cooked pumpkin
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Plated pumpkin dinner
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This year, I made a recipe that GB posted. Very easy, and a fun presentation, but kind of bland, as written.
My pumpkin was good-sized, so I used two pounds of ground beef, added 4 cloves of minced garlic (could have used more), plus garlic powder, and cooked it for TWO and a half hours, until the pumpkin was fully tender and the stuffing piping hot.
This really is a great presentation, and I would experiment with different filling ingredients and seasonings.
Maybe lamb stew.
Lee
DINNER IN A PUMPKIN (GB)
Medium sized pumpkin (about 4 pounds)
1-1/2 pounds lean ground beef
1/3 cup chopped green pepper
3/4 cup chopped celery
3/4 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 Tablespoon brown sugar
1 4-ounce can mushrooms
1 can cream of chicken soup
2 cups cooked rice
Using a sharp knife, cut lid from pumpkin and scoop out
pumpkin seeds and excess membrane with a scraping tool.
In a large skillet, combine ground beef, chopped green
pepper, chopped celery, and chopped onion and cook over
medium heat until ground beef is browned. Add next seven
ingredients to skillet. Mix well and place mixture into
pumpkin cavity. Place lid on pumpkin. Place pumpkin on a
foil-lined cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 1-1/2
hours.
Uncooked pumpkin
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Cooked pumpkin
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Plated pumpkin dinner
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