Recipe # 37: Pumpkin Stuffed with Rice and Sausage

Fall is all about comfort foods and right in the middle of people's favorite fall comfort foods is all things PUMPKIN. Years ago, my mom found a recipe that she gave to my grandma that has become a fall family favorite. I finally got the recipe and made it for myself.

Ingredients:
Pie pumpkin
Rice
Cream of Mushroom Soup
Pepper

Recipe:
Take a pie pumpkin and clean it out.
Cook rice according to the directions.
Cook ground sausage.
Combine cooked rice and sausage, then mix with cream of mushroom soup.
Add a dash of pepper.
*Add about a 1/4 or 1/2 cup of milk to keep the fixture moist.
Fill the pumpkin with the mixture. Don't fill the pumpkin to the top as the rice will continue to cook and expand.
Put in oven at 350 degrees for one hour.

Once it's done, scoop out the mixture and the perfectly softened pumpkin along with it. Mmm! Enjoy!

Recipe # 30: Chocolate Pumpkin Cake

I've been tailgating a lot this year and have been waiting to make different things for each. I've also been embracing fall and thus wanting to make desserts with pumpkin. Roughly 3 weeks ago, I made Pumpkin Cake with Apple Cider Glaze and this time I decided to try pumpkin AND chocolate!!!

I used Pinterest to find this easy recipe. The upside is that it's low fat! The recipe is essentially a boxed Devil's Food cake mix and a can of pumpkin. No eggs, oil or water.

The cake comes out so moist, but slightly crumbly. My friends liked it and so did I. :)

Fall

I've never been a big fan of fall until this year. Now, I'm enjoying the:
-cooler temps
-golden sunshine
-boot weather
-walking on crunchy leaves
-leaves changing color
-scarf weather
-warm tea, soup, apple cider
-football


What do you love about fall?