dinner in a pumpkin

This is such a fun idea for Fall! It was super easy to make, tasted great and looked so cute!

Recipe
1 small to medium pumpkin
1/2 onion chopped
1 green pepper chopped
2 Tbs. vegetable oil
2 lbs. ground beef
2 Tbs. soy sauce
2 Tbs. brown sugar
1 (16 oz.) pkg. mushrooms, sliced
1 can of cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup sour cream
1 cup cooked rice

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cut off top of pumpkin and clean out seeds and pulp. If you want you can paint a face on the front with acrylic paint or a permanent marker. Put the pumpkin in the oven on a cookie sheet without top to soften as you prepare the remaining ingredients.

In a large skillet, saute onions and peppers in oil until tender. Add meat and brown. Drain drippings from the skillet. Add soy sauce, brown sugar, mushrooms and soup. Simmer 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add cooked rice, add additional brown sugar and soy sauce to taste and to keep mixture soupy. (It will taste very sweet, after cooked in oven it isn't so sweet). Remove pumpkin from the oven and spoon mixture in to cleaned pumpkin. Replace pumpkin top and bake 1 hour or until inside meat of pumpkin is tender. When serving, scoop out pumpkin and serve alongside (it tastes a lot squash).