Dinner in a Pumpkin

Helen's recipe...thanks Helen! So fun and tasty!

1 small to medium pumpkin
1 onion chopped
2T vegetable oil
1 1/2 to 2 lbs ground beef
2 T soy sauce
2 T brown sugar
1 (4oz) can sliced mushrooms, drained
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 1/2 C cooked rice
1 (8 oz) can water chesnuts sliced

Cut and clean pumpkin. Paint a face on it w/ permanent marker. Cut a few slits into pumpkin, and put 1-2 T water in bottom. Pre-cook pumpkin on cookie sheet at 350 until slightly tender.

Saute onion until tender. Add beef and brown. Drain. Add soy sauce, brown sugar, mushrooms and soup. Simmer 10 minutes. Add cooked rice and water chesnuts. Spoon into pumpkin and place on baking sheet. Bake another hour or until pumpkin is tender.