Ingredients:

• 1 15-ounce canned pumpkin
• 2 tablespoons tahini
• 1 garlic clove, chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, finely chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice

Preparation:

In a food processor, combine ingredients until smooth and creamy. If hummus is too thick, you can add 1 tablespoon of water at a time until desired consistency. Spoon into serving bowl, and sprinkle with desired topping like cinnamon or nutmeg.

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Now that Halloween is over, you have probably had it with pumpkin carving, toasted pumpkin seeds and sweet treats made from pumpkin. Did you know that there’s a use for the pumpkin rind as well? Some doctors say smearing it on your face may help improve your skin. The contents of a jar of Pumpkin Peel look like pumpkin pie filling, and smell like it, too. Why pumpkin? The company that makes the Pumpkin Peel says the orange squash contains over 100 ingredients that help skin look and feel younger.

Pumpkin is high in Zinc, beta carotene, Vitamin C, Vitamin A and have antioxidants, the highly touted vitamins that are believed to help fend off diseases such as cancer and heart disease. Antioxidants may even fight free radicals, thought by some researchers to bring on the ravages of aging.

1. Make your base: Whisk together about 1/4 cup of pumpkin and one egg.

2. Customize: If desired, add a splash of milk, which does a beauty good, after all.

3. For dry skin: Add a bit of honey, which not only acts as a humectant, but the natural sweetener provides antiseptic properties, too.

4. For oily skin: For an astringent effect, mix in a splash of apple cider or cranberry juice.

5. Apply: Slather the mixture on your face. Relax, read, do chores, or whatever you’d like for the next 15 to 20 minutes and rinse off.

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Pumpkin Goulash

1 1/2 lb. beef stew meat
package of baby carrots
potatoes cut small dice
one large onion sliced
one lb. fresh mushrooms sliced
one green pepper diced
one stalk celery sliced
2 cans Golden Mushroom soup
1 – medium size pumpkin cleaned out
Cut the beef stew up into pieces and brown in a skillet with a little oil.

Cut the top off of a pumpkin large enough to hold all the above ingredients. Clean the seeds out and add the stew beef. Peel and cut the carrots into 1 inch pieces. Add the carrots, onion, mushrooms, green pepper, celery and soup with 1 can of water. Stir to blend up the ingredients.

Place the pumpkin on a cookie sheet. Put the lid back on and cover the stem with foil. Bake at 300°F. for 3 hours.

When serving scoop some of the pumpkin from the sides.

With this easy recipe there will be no reason to hide under your office furniture

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