Looks and sounds NICe Darc...thanx for the recipe!

Here is the recipe.  I also added Sweet sausage (make sure you squeeze the sausage out from its case), sweet potatoes, squash and beef stock, 2 basil leaves.  I browned the meat (I used steak meat instead of stew meat) in Olive oil and also make sure you glaze the outside of the pumpkin with the same BEFORE putting it in the oven. When it says to simmer all the ingredients in a pot for an hour before stuffing the pumpkin, that is when I added a few cups of beef stock (transfer everything, including the stock into the pumpkin). make sure to save the pumpkin seeds, let them dry on a flat pan, then season and cook at 350 for ten minutes. (I used cajun seasoning instead of salt). 

Pumpkin Stew

Description: This Pumpkin Stew recipe is baked and served in the pumpkin. It's a neat way to cook and serve  pumpkin stew. Your guests will be delighted! Contributor: Becky Hogle

 

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Ingredients:

1	10 - 12 pound pumpkin
2 lb.	Beef stew meat
2 tbs.	Oil
1	Bell Pepper
1	Onion
4	Medium potatoes
3	Carrots
2	Cloves of Garlic
2	Sticks of Celery
1	15oz. can of diced tomatoes
2-3 cups	Water
	Salt to taste
	Pepper to taste

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Preparation Directions:

1. Carve a hole in the top  of the pumpkin and remove seeds, and stringy insides.
2. Set pumpkin aside.
3. In a dutch oven brown 2 lbs of stew meat in oil.
4. Add in 1 bell pepper(sliced into inch thick slices), 1 onion (sliced), 4 medium potatoes(cubed), 3 carrots(cubed), 2 cloves of garlic(diced), 2 sticks of celery(sliced), 1 - 15 oz can of diced tomatoes.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste.
6. Add 2 - 3 cups of water.
7. Let simmer for 1 hour.
8. Place pumpkin in shallow pan, and place stew inside pumpkin.
9. Brush the outside of the pumpkin with a light coating of oil.
10. Bake pumpkin and stew at 350 for 2 hours, or until pumpkin is tender.
11. Serve wile hot.
12. Be sure to get chunks of pumpkin in your stew, as they enhance the flavor of the stew.