Pumpkin Stew - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pumpkin (large enough to hold 4 to 6 qt. stew)
your own favorite beef stew recipe

Preparation

Cut off top of pumpkin to make a lid.
Clean out seeds and pulp.
Bake hollowed out pumpkin shell on oven rack at 300\u00b0 for approximately 1 1/2 hours.
Fill with hot beef stew; continue baking an additional hour (stew will pick up some flavor from pumpkin).
Remove from oven; serve, using the pumpkin as your serving dish.
Yummy and decorative on a cold fall night.