Categories: Stews 
      Yield: 10 servings 
  
      1 md Pumpkin 
      1 lb Sausage, hot 
      1 lg Onion; chopped 
      1    Bell pepper, green; chopped 
    1/2 pk Chicken noodle soup mix 
    1/2 c  Almonds, blanched 
    1/2 bn Celery; chopped 
      6 oz Chicken; boned 
      1 c  Rice; uncooked 
  4 1/2 c  ;Water 
  
  Cut off the top of the pumpkin and thoroughly clean out the seeds and 
  pulp.  Preheat the oven to 250 F.  Brown the sausage, breaking into 
  small pieces as it cooks.  Drain grease and add onion, celery and 
  green pepper. Cook a few minutes.  Add soup mix to boiling water and 
  cook a few minutes. Combine all ingredients and pour into the clean 
  pumpkin shell.  Replace pumpkin top and place pumpkin on a baking 
  sheet. Bake one hour or until pumpkin is tender.  Stir once halfway 
  through.  Remove pumpkin lid and serve, scooping out some of the 
  cooked pumpkin into each bowl.