ME-Dawn

I have never tried this, but I think they look great. DH and I have talked about trying it but never have. We may try this year.

"Dinner in a Pumpkin" (version #1)
1 medium pumpkin
2 lbs. ground beef, cooked
1 chopped onion
3 sliced carrots
1 can cream of en soup
1 can sliced mushroom, drained
1 tablespoons garlic salt
1 celery stalk, sliced
2-3 potatoes, diced
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper to taste

Bring all ingredients (except pumpkin) to a boil in a pot. Boil 10
minutes. Place pumpkin in sturdy baking pan. Fill pumpkin with
hot mixture. Bake at 350 degrees, for approximately 45 minutes,
until pumpkin is tender and brown.

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"Dinner in a Pumpkin" (version # 2)
2 lbs. ground beef
6 oz. ground sausage
6 oz. can tomato sauce
2 1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup chopped onion
3/4 cup raisins
1/2 green bell pepper, chopped
2 tsp. oregano
1 tsp. vinegar
3 eggs, beaten
1/3 cup chopped stuffed green olives
1tsp. pepper

Brown ground beef and sausage. Combine meats with all other
ingredients. Fill in a medium cleaned pumpkin. Bake in 1 inch of
water of 350 degrees for 1 hour. Serve in pumpkin, scraping
sides for the vegetable.

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"Dinner in a Pumpkin" (version # 3)
1 small-med. sized pumpkin
1 onion, chopped
2 tablespoons oil
1 1/2 - 2 lbs. ground beef
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
4 oz. can sliced mushrooms, drained
10 3/4 can cream of en soup
1 1/2 cups cooked rice
1 8oz. sliced water chestnuts, drained

Cut off top of pumpkin and thoroughly clean out seeds and pulp.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large skillet, sauté onions in
oil until tender. Add meat and brown. Drain drippings from skillet.
Add soy sauce, brown sugar, mushrooms, and soup. Simmer 10
minutes, stirring occasionally. Add cooked rice and water
chestnuts. Spoon mixture into cleaned pumpkin shell. Replace
pumpkin top and place entire pumpkin with filling, on a baking
sheet. Bake 1 hour or until inside meat of pumpkin is tender. Put
pumpkin on a plate. Remove lid and serve. Scoop cooked
pumpkin from sides for vegetable. Serves 6.

InternetMom13

I've made one very similar to the first recipe you posted, Dawn. My sons thought it was the est thing! I made it for Jason's Halloween birthday dinner one year and they talked about it for months afterward. I wished I could have gotten pumpkins during the winter months cause it would have made a nice dinner for those , dreary January's Rochester is so famous for.