Dinner in a Pumpkin

Because I'm all domestic, I made dinner in a pumpkin today. I was inspired by Emily and the fact that we got a few pumpkins for a dollar each. The dinner was...AWESOME. I was a little nervous because I've never actually cooked a pumpkin before, and we didn't get sugar pumpkins, just regular. I read a few recipes online and then made up my own.

Here's what I did:

1 pumpkin, cleaned
1/2 onion, chopped
1/2 green pepper chopped (It could have used more, but that's all I had.)
1 carrot, sliced
1 lb ground turkey
1 can cream of mushroom soup, I used low sodium
1 T soy sauce
about 2 cups of cooked rice, I used a mix of brown and white
pepper
garlic

Saute vegetables in a little bit of oil until tender. Add ground turkey and brown. Season with garlic and pepper. Add in soup and rice; mix. Fill pumpkin and replace lid. Cook for about an hour on a baking sheet at 350 degrees.

I also sprayed the pumpkin with a little bit of cooking spray. I don't know if it helped anything. I try not to use condensed soups too much when I cook since they are on the expensive side for a dinner and they are high in sodium, but in this recipe, it was perfect. If I had more time, maybe I could have whipped up a different sauce. A big plus was that there were lots of leftovers, especially of pumpkin.

I didn't know pumpkin was so similar to spaghetti squash. Now I feel bad that I bought squash at the store for $.99/lb when I could have been cooking up dollar pumpkins.


Bonus! Here are our obligatory Halloween pictures:

At the ward Halloween party. She had a blowout in the turkey costume. Maybe that's why she looks so alarmed.

At the Halloween 5k

Ready to go trick-or-treating