aka - I lose my mind trying to carve a pumpkin.
Ryan's mom has this fun tradition of making dinner in a pumpkin on Halloween night. So we have adopted the same little tradition. The idea is super simple and pretty healthy.
This year at Belvedere Plantation, they had some super fancy pumpkins that are supposed to be amazing flavor wise. So I got a medium sized pumpkin for our Halloween dinner.
These crazy little pumpkins are super thick - which I didn't know when I tried to quickly pop the top and fill it. I ended up butchering the damned thing and cussing like a fighter pilot trying to break this thing open.
It is almost funny what things make you so mad you literally cuss - apparently for me it is carving pumpkins - good to know.
Dinner in a pumpkin recipe (more or less):
1 pound of ground beef
1 diced onion
2 T crushed garlic
2 T soy sauce
2 T brown sugar
1 can cream of something soup (or a white sauce - which I like better, but was in no mood today)
2 cups cooked rice
salt and pepper to taste
Brown the ground beef and onions, add garlic, soy, sugar, and cream. Mix well and then add the rice. Pack in a cleaned out pumpkin with a face drawn in sharpie. Bake for about an hour at 350. Or until the pumpkin flesh is soft. Scoop some of the pumpkin flesh out with the rice mixture when serving.
Ryan's mom has this fun tradition of making dinner in a pumpkin on Halloween night. So we have adopted the same little tradition. The idea is super simple and pretty healthy.
This year at Belvedere Plantation, they had some super fancy pumpkins that are supposed to be amazing flavor wise. So I got a medium sized pumpkin for our Halloween dinner.
These crazy little pumpkins are super thick - which I didn't know when I tried to quickly pop the top and fill it. I ended up butchering the damned thing and cussing like a fighter pilot trying to break this thing open.
It is almost funny what things make you so mad you literally cuss - apparently for me it is carving pumpkins - good to know.
Dinner in a pumpkin recipe (more or less):
1 pound of ground beef
1 diced onion
2 T crushed garlic
2 T soy sauce
2 T brown sugar
1 can cream of something soup (or a white sauce - which I like better, but was in no mood today)
2 cups cooked rice
salt and pepper to taste
Brown the ground beef and onions, add garlic, soy, sugar, and cream. Mix well and then add the rice. Pack in a cleaned out pumpkin with a face drawn in sharpie. Bake for about an hour at 350. Or until the pumpkin flesh is soft. Scoop some of the pumpkin flesh out with the rice mixture when serving.
2 comments:
The progression of those pumpkin pictures just cracks me up - imagining you trying to get through it :)
No wonder...look how thick that bad boy is! There's probably enough pumpkin there to make 15 pies...I kid, but it is understandable how this became an exercise in cussing! LOL
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