Stew-in-a-Pumpkin

Here is the recipe for my Stew-in-a-Pumpkin

Stew-In-A Pumpkin

What you need:

1. One large pumpkin that will fit in your oven
2. Your favorite stew recipe

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook Stew and boil on the stove for 15 min. While stew is cooking take the top off and remove the guts and seeds from your pumpkin. Next, put the pumpkin into a roasting pan or 9X13 for transporting. Pour the boiling stew into the pumpkin and replace the top. Bake stew in the pumpkin for 1 hour or until you can pierce the pumpkin with a knife and it is soft. (Sometimes it gets singed on top a bit) Serve stew straight from the pumpkin. Use a metal ladle and gently scrape the side of the inside of the pumpkin when you serve so that everyone gets a nice chunk of fresh pumpkin in there stew.

Sarah's Stew Recipe

2 Lbs stewing beef
1/3 cup flour + salt, pepper and dash of adobo
3 tablespoons butter
3 cups boiling water + 1 bullion cube
1 cup red wine
2 garlic cloves
3 carrots diced
2 stalks of cellery diced
2 parsnips diced
1 onion diced
8 red potatoes quartered
2 bay leaves
1 tsp.  fresh Thyme
dash of nutmeg
salt and pepper to taste

In a dutch oven heat 1 tablespoon of butter.  Combine flour, salt, pepper, and adobo in a bowl and toss meat to coat. Save the excess flour. Add beef to hot pot and gently sear  on all sides in batches. Set aside. Add remaining two tablespoons of butter to hot pot, and all veggies but the potatoes. Saute until onions are opaque. Add flour remaining in the bowl from the beef coating, and stir with veggies for 1 minute. Gradually add wine and stock while stirring rapidly. Add the potatoes, beef and seasonings. Bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes. Then pour boiling stew into the pumpkin and bake it!