Dinner in a Pumpkin

This smells and tastes so yummy every Halloween.

1 medium pumpkin, about 4 pounds, cleaned out well

1 1/2 pounds ground beef

1/3 cup green pepper, chopped

3/4 cup celery, chopped

3/4 cup onion, chopped

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

2 teaspoons soy sauce

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1 (4 ounce) can mushrooms

1 can cream of chicken soup

2 cups cooked rice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Brown ground beef; add peppers, celery and onion and cook until soft.  Add next 7 ingredients.  Mix well and put in pumpkin.  Put top on pumpkin.  Place on foil lined cookie sheet and bake for 1 1/2 hours.  To serve scoop out pumpkin along with meat mixture. 

To decorate: Use toothpicks to attach black olives for eyes, carrots for nose, press in whole cloves for mouth and fresh parsley for hair around opening.