Ingredients

  • 2 onions, chopped
  • 1 lb hamburger meat
  • 1 lb sausage
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup mushroom, drained and chopped
  • 1 (10 1/2 ounce) can cream of chicken soup
  • 8 ounces water chestnuts, drained and sliced
  • 1 bell pepper, chopped
  • 1 jalapeno, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons pimentos, drained and chopped
  • 2 cups cooked rice
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons creole seasoning
  • 10 -12 lbs pumpkin
  • shortening

Method

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Brown and drain beef along with onions and sausage.
  • Cook until no longer pink and drain well.
  • Cut top off of pumpkin and reserve.
  • Clean seeds and strings from pumpkin.
  • Clean well.
  • Coat pumpkin skin with shortening.
  • Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl.
  • Spoon ingredients into pumpkin.
  • Place top back on pumpkin.
  • Wrap foil over the stem.
  • Bake on a cookie sheet for 2 to 3 hours depending on the size of pumpkin.
  • DO NOT OVERBAKE. The pumpkin should not begin to brown.