Posted by terrepruitt on September 27, 2017
It is that season! YAY! Stuffed pumpkins for dinner!!!! YUM! I posted this recipe in 2013 in my post Pumpkin For Dinner. But I was cleaning up my desktop a bit and I found these pictures from 2015 which are so much better than the ones from 2013. So I wanted to share them.
My poor friends on Facebook get oodles of stuffed pumpkins pictures during the season!
This is one of my favorite meals and this is the time of of year! Now I am so hungry for a stuffed pumpkin!
Have you tried it yet?
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Posted by terrepruitt on October 31, 2015
Sometimes I write a post and I am not certain if I have written about the subject before. Sometimes I write a post and I know I have written about the subject before, I am just revisiting it. Sometimes things come up in life and I know I have written a post, but I am reminded that I wrote the post because it is a common issue or the post can be pointed to for information. Recently I was reminded of a things that could bear repeating so I am pointed out a few posts.
One thing I was reminded of was holding the breath. Have I ever told you that one of the things people ask me to do the most is remind them to breathe? I wrote a post about breathing properly and how important it is to allow you to move correctly. It is so common to hold your breath while concentrating there is a name for it. Read more about it in my post Breathing – It’s A Good Thing.
Recently in one of the Nia classes I taught we focused on the “Healing Sounds”. When I mention them there is always a few people who want the information . . . and that is why I wrote the post Feel Good Sounds. It is too difficult to remember which sound is associated with what, this way it is right there for all of us.
It is sugar pie pumpkin time again, and so we are going to have a pumpkin for dinner tomorrow night. So good, I wanted to point out the recipe, see my Pumpkin For Dinner post.
Perhaps you have been exposed to e-cigarettes lately. I seem to see then around more now. Perhaps you might be interested in reading my post Things I Didn’t Know About E-cigarettes?
And, this is for me, I always need to remind myself of the Nia Energy Allies or you might know them as the Four Agreements. They are so helpful in so many situations.
And then something new . . . . . since it is Halloween. My husband loves to dress up. Sometimes he gets pretty extravagant. This year he didn’t do too much, but he HAS been planning this “trick” for his co-worker for months. For some reason he wasn’t able to do it when he first came up with the idea, for her birthday. And then every time since that he has wanted to do it, something has come up . . . ya know, life does that sometimes. So he decided to do it for Halloween. Pretty much nothing was going to stop him. The stars and planets all aligned to be even better than when he originally planned it. But what he didn’t really plan – he said – was this video. He had an idea of what he was going to say, but when his co-worker took it, it came out perfect. So here is my husbandDoc Brown saving one of his friends.
Do you ever hold your breath? Have you ever made any of those “healing sounds”? Did you know some of the e-cigarettes have the same amount of nicotine as regular cigarettes? Are you familiar with Nia’s Energy Allies/Four Agreements? Do you get trick-or-treaters? Do you dress up for Halloween?
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Posted by terrepruitt on November 12, 2013
I received a pumpkin in my organic produce box. I didn’t know what to do with it. I was looking at one of the blogs that I read on occasion and I saw a recipe for a stuffed pumpkin. I saved the recipe so that I could make it. I looked at the post a couple of times while I was thinking about it. There was a woman who commented with a link to her version of the stuffed pumpkin. When I posted the original (to me) posting on FB one of my friends commented, “I just made those.” Which, when she posted the picture to my wall, I vaguely remembered having seen it when she originally posted it. But it was before I had received a pumpkin so it didn’t really register. When I went to make my grocery list off of JJ Begonia’s recipe, I realized it was literally like a stuffed pumpkin as in BREAD stuffing. Like a turkey. I didn’t want to just use bread. Then I remembered my friend said she stuffed hers with sausage. The first two recipes have bacon in them, but I don’t like to buy a pound of bacon for only a couple of pieces. So I decided on sausage. I took ideas from all three people and came up with the below stuffed pumpkin recipe.
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Stuffed Sugar Pie Pumpkin
1 2 to 3 pound Sugar Pie Pumpkin
1-2 tbsp olive oil
salt
Six mushrooms, thinly sliced
1/4 cup chopped onion
3 cloves garlic (minced)
1/4 pound sausage
1/2 tsp rosemary
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 cup cheese (small chunks)
2 tbsp ricotta
1 tbsp sherry
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
handful of spinach
four slices bread – toasted and cubed
Cut the top off of the pumpkin making a little lid. Scoop out the pumpkin guts. Then put a little oil and salt in the pumpkin and place it on a piece of aluminum foil on a baking sheet. Bake at 350° F for 45 minutes (check it after 20 minutes to see that it is not getting too cooked – after the 45 minutes you want it to be almost cooked, but not cooked so much it can’t stand another HOUR in the oven).
Heat the olive oil in the pan with the 1/2 of the onions. Once the onions are translucent put the mushrooms in the pan and cook them. Sprinkle with salt. As they are cooking mix in one clove of garlic. Cook the sausage, either after the mushrooms are cooked or use a different pan. If the sausage has a lot of grease drain it off once the sausage is cooked before you add the sausage to the rest of the ingredients.
Mix the mushrooms and the sausage in a bowl. Add the rosemary and thyme. Mix in the remaining two cloves of garlic and the onions. Mix in the cheese. Mix in the sherry and most of the cream (save a splash for the inside bottom of pumpkin). Add the spinach and bread cubes last. Mix it all carefully.
Pour the remaining splash of cream in the pumpkin. Spoon the mixture into the pumpkin. I used the spoon to press it down into the pumpkin.
Put the pumpkin in the oven for 60 minutes. After about 20 minutes I put the “lid” on. The pumpkin is done when you can gently pierce its side with a sharp object. Check to verify the inside it cooked to your liking. Since the mushrooms and the sausage are already cooked it is just a matter of it heating up and melting the cheese.
Slice and serve.
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This was good, BUT . . . . . I have some adjustments I would make for next time. I was thinking it would be full of flavor so I hardly used any salt which left it almost flavorless except for the thyme. Next time I will use LESS thyme and more salt and some pepper. You will notice I didn’t put any pepper in this. I don’t use pepper. But I can when I think that a recipe needs it. I will salt the inside of the pumpkin more prior to baking and prior to filling.
This was ALL that we had for dinner with a small salad and it was PLENTY! We were full. We each had a half. We did not have a pumpkin each. 🙂
As you can see from just this post there are at least four recipes to make stuffed pumpkin. I purposefully didn’t say what type of sausage, cheese, or bread I used because I want you to find your own flavor and texture. So follow one of the recipes or do it your own way. You have the basics . . . go play! If you do not follow my recipe . . . . please, please, please, tell us what you did. I would love to hear of more ways to make a pumpkin dinner!
Happy Fall!
I had not stuffed a pumpkin before. Have you ever stuffed a pumpkin and baked it?
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