Dinner in a Pumpkin

I thought it was time for a new post and this one is a fun Fall dinner. It is a little bit like stroganof and squash. Here is the recipe:

Dinner in a Pumpkin

1 small to medium pumpkin
1 onion, chopped
2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
2 lbs. hamburger
2 Tbsp. soy sauce
2 Tbsp. brown sugar
1 4 oz. can sliced mushrooms, drained
2 cans cream of chicken soup
1 1/2 cups cooked rice
1 8 oz. can chestnuts, drained

Cut top off pumpkin. Clean out seeds and pulp. Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a large skillet, sauté onions in oil. Add meat and brown. Drain. Add soy sauce, brown sugar, mushrooms and soup. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add cooked rice and chestnuts. Spoon mixture into cleaned pumpkin. Replace pumpkin top. Bake 2 hours on baking sheet. Scrape the cooked pumpkin off of the side as you serve it.

These are the ingredients I used (my husband laughs that I never follow a recipe correctly):
1 small to medium pumpkin
1 onion, chopped
1 lb. hamburger
4 Tbsp. soy sauce
4 Tbsp. brown sugar
2 4 oz. can sliced mushrooms, drained
3 cans cream of chicken soup
6 cups cooked rice
no chestnuts

Happy Fall!