Dinner in a Pumpkin

1 sm to medium pumpkin
1 onion, chopped
2 TB Veg oil
1 1/2 - 2 pounds ground beef
2 TB soy sauce
2 TB brown sugar
1 can sliced mushrooms
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 1/2 C rice, cooked
1 can water chestnuts, diced

Cut of lid of pumpkin and clean outside.  Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Cook onion in oil and and add hamburger until brown.  Add soy sauce, brown sugar, mushrooms and mushroom soup.  Simmer 10 minutes.  Add uncooked rice and water chestnuts.  Fill pumpkin and place on cookie sheet.  Replace the top of the pumpkin and bake for 1 hour or until the inside is tender.  The pumpkin is delicious to eat along with the filling.