In Search of a Decadent Pumpkin Recipe?

If you are in search of decadent pumpkin recipe you just found it. This would work in smaller pumpkins as an individual dish or in a larger pumpkin as an appetizer. Or really anyway you want to use it, it is delicious.

Ingredients:
1) Sugar pumpkin
2) Cheese
3) Bread
4) Moistening agent - I am calling it this because you can use whatever you like, broth, cream, milk, wine, anything with flavor
5) herb that you like with cheese - examples nutmeg, smoked paprika, cayenne, garlic, really whatever works for you.

Preparation:

Cut the top off of the pumpkin and dig out the innards, reserving seeds for drying and making a snack (recipe to follow).

Grate your cheese of choice. It is nice to mix two cheeses, I would suggest gruyere and Asiago, or really anything a bit mild that melts well. A cheddar like cheese would drown out the pumpkin.

Cut your bread into slices and toast it.

Heat up your liquid, adding salt pepper and your spice.

Put layers of bread and then cheese until the pumpkin is full to the top. Pour your liquid into the pumpkin, you want the bread moist but not swimming in liquid.

Put the top back on and bake at 400 degrees for about an hour.