Dinner in a Pumpkin

Alright I'm bringing this post to the front because it is our traditional Halloween dish! We have it every year and we love it! I thought I would bring it up in plenty of time so you can go get the stuff to make your own if you want! It is so very good!

Also just in case you were wondering we don't go Trick-or-Treating around here! Obviously it doesn't seem to fit with our lifestyle! ;) The kids love to dress up and hand out toys or healthy treats at the door, we play games, have our traditional dinner and sometimes friends come over and sometimes we take our dinner over to friends for a party. But every year it's lot of fun!

Dinner in a Pumpkin

1 medium size pumpkin
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
1 head of cauliflower chopped
3 ribs of celery chopped
1 large onion chopped
4 Tablespoons Sucanat
2 Tablespoons Nama Shoyu
1 recipe "cream of something soup"(below)
4+/- cups cooked brown rice (or you can use a mix of cooked wild and brown rice)
1 can water chestnuts (drained)
1-2 cans sliced mushrooms (drained)

Cut off top of pumpkin and clean out the seeds and pulp. Draw a face with a marker if you want. In very Large skillet or large pot add olive oil, cauliflower, celery, onion, Sucanat, and soy sauce. Saute for a few minutes then add the soup, rice, water chestnuts, and mushrooms. Simmer for a few minutes, Spoon into pumpkin. Place pumpkin with top on onto a cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for at least an hour until pumpkin is cooked to desired softness. When spooning out filling be sure to get some of the cooked pumpkin with it. MMMmmmmMMMmmm!

Cream of Something Soup

(I call this cream of something because I use it in place of things that call for cream of mushroom or chicken etc.)

2 1/2 cups rice milk
1 Tablespoon vegetable bullion
3 rounded Tablespoons whole wheat flour
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
2 Tablespoons Nama Shoyu
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce (from health food store)

In a sauce pan put 2 cups of the rice milk mix with the bullion bring to a boil at medium heat. In a cup or small bowl whisk together 1/2 cup rice milk with the flour. When the first mixture is boiling; slowly add the flour mixture while stirring. Turn off heat mix in rest of ingredients.

Note: Picture was taken BEFORE it was cooked. The outside will brown when cooked!