Halloween Dinner - Steph

Recipe Rating:	2 Ratings5
Category:	Other Main Dishes
Serves:	12
Prep Time:	10 Min
Cook Time:	3 Hr

Ingredients

10 - 12 lb	pumpkin, cleaned out completely
1 lb	ground beef
1 lb	pork sausage (friend uses italian sausage) find more delicious recipes at www.porkbeinspired.com
1 large	onion
1 large	green pepper
1 c	celery
1 pkg	uncle ben's wild rice
1 can(s)	sliced water chestnuts
1 can(s)	cream of mushroom soup
	salt and pepper to taste

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Stephanie Dodd

Full Flavored

Kansas City, MO (pop. 459,787)

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Member Since Aug 2010

Stephanie's Notes:

This delicious Halloween meal is made every October by one of our BUNKO hostesses and is a real treat for everyone!

Directions

Cut off top of pumpkin and completely remove the insides of the pumpkin. Brown ground beef and sausage; saute vegetables. Drain grease. Put back in pan; add remaining ingredients and mix together. Put all ingredients inside the pumpkin and bake at 325 degrees for 3 hours. ENJOY!!

Using Italian Sausage makes it a little spicier but you can use just regular sausage.

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Lynn S lynnsocko

Oct 2, 2012

This sounds really neat!!!

Pat Duran kitchenchatter

Oct 2, 2012

Sounds Delicious, Steph! Thanks for sharing. Hugs,Pat

Aurora McBee aurora

Oct 2, 2012

Oh yummy! Sounds delish!

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Colleen Sowa colleenlucky7

Oct 2, 2012

Very cool recipe! xo

Stephanie Dodd skeen

Oct 2, 2012

Very good; thank you all!!!

Jane McMillan janenov46

Oct 2, 2012

I love the idea of using a pumpkin.
Could you par cook the pumpkin you think? maybe in the microwave?

Stephanie Dodd skeen

Oct 2, 2012

I do too!!

Mary Compton marykate16

Oct 2, 2012

The best part of this is being able to scrape out the cooked pumpkin with the meat-rice-veggie mixture when it's ready to serve...oh, so good! I have a picture of this from when a friend made one for her mother-in-law's birthday dinner party...she gently etched out "Happy Birthday" on one outer side of the pumpkin, then served it on a large silver platter with brightly colored silk autumn leaves strewn around! This is a wonderful meal...you can make other fun options of recipes in a pumpkin...but this one is a keeper...it's SO GOOD!!! Thanks for sharing your recipe!

jamie Beecham jamie4cakes

Oct 2, 2012

Heavenly sure is a keeper for me and going to make it as soon as I get a pumpkin

Vikki Montanaro bakeaholic

Oct 3, 2012

WOW, have never seen anything like this, sounds awesome for Halloween Parties?? Would definitely use the italian sausage as suggested, love a spicier dish if I'm able to prepare it that way, depending on whom I'm feeding of course! Thank you Stephanie for sharing...still have yet to go to the pumpkin patch...however, Pinched!!