I just found a recipe today and it sounds soooo good and SOOOO precious.
Basically, you wash a pumpkin and cut off the top. Scoop out the innards. Load it with cabbage, tomato sauce, rice and ground turkey or beef. Season it and bake it (with the pumpkin lid on) for 2-3 hours.
Anyone else try this before? It looks super yum and just so neat. Calorie count (with ground beef) is 364. I will use seasoned turkey.
I bet this would be great with other winter squashes too. I bought a ton today because they were such a great price. I think I will be eating butternut squash soup until February.
Sounds interesting. Would have to be a small-ish pumpkin though.
I too love the fall. And boy oh boy do I love onslaught of the winter squashes. I've yet to try pumpkin. Hmmm.....
If you are going to try pumpkin, look for a sugar sweet, sugar pie or some sort of heirloom variety. The stuff they sell for jackolanterns isnt very good.
If you are going to try pumpkin, look for a sugar sweet, sugar pie or some sort of heirloom variety. The stuff they sell for jackolanterns isnt very good.
Sometimes stores have them labeled simply as "pie pumpkins" too.
I do this. I use ground meat (what kind varies with my mood), brown rice, onions, seasonings (again a mood thing), sometimes some chopped nuts, diced apples, cranberries, extra veggies. I usually use the really small ones and give everyone their own. If you use the small ones you should cut down the baking time, I cook mine for about an hour. It is very yummy and not nearly as difficult as it may sound. They are really awesome for fall dinner parties or if you need to take something to a potluck (I use the larger ones for that). I am making them for Halloween dinner this year. It works well with shredded turkey too when it is time to find creative things to do with leftovers from Thanksgiving.
Last year for Thanksgiving, I did stuffed acorn squashes. I made a quinoa/cranberry stuffing, loaded the acorn squashes and baked. So good.
When I went to the squash farm this past weekend, I didn't get any pumpkins, now I'm thinking I should've picked some up I got tons of other squash though and I roasted some again last night.