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                    Ingredients:  
                       
                        1 10 - 12 pound pumpkin 
                        2 lb. Beef stew meat 
                        2 tbs. Oil 
                        1 Bell Pepper 
                        1 Onion 
                        4 Medium potatoes 
                        3 Carrots 
                        2 Cloves of Garlic 
                        2 Sticks of Celery 
                        1 15oz. can of diced tomatoes 
                      2-3 cups Water 
                      Salt to taste 
                      Pepper to taste 
                        
                         
                       
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                Directions: 
                1. Carve a hole in the top  of the pumpkin and remove seeds, and stringy insides. 
                  Set pumpkin aside. 
                   
                  2. In a dutch oven brown 2 lbs of stew meat in oil. 
                   
                  3. 
                  Add in 1 bell pepper(sliced into inch thick slices), 1 onion (sliced), 4 medium potatoes(cubed), 3 carrots(cubed), 2 cloves of garlic(diced), 2 sticks of celery(sliced), 1 - 15 oz can of diced tomatoes. 
                   
                  4. 
                  Add salt and pepper to taste, and add 2 - 3 cups of water. 
                Let simmer for 1 hour. 
                5. Place pumpkin in shallow pan, and place stew inside pumpkin. 
                  Brush the outside of the pumpkin with a light coating of oil. 
                   
                  6. Bake pumpkin and stew at 350 for 2 hours, or until pumpkin is tender. 
                  Serve wile hot. 
                   
                  When dishing up scrape chunks of pumpkin in your stew, as they enhance the flavor of the stew. 
                 
                  
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