I do not like pumpkin. I can tolerate it sometimes if it’s baked into a cake or muffin or quickbread, but I don’t like it all baked into a pie or as a squash side or main dish. It needs to be hidden. But we had three sugar pie pumpkins in the pantry from the farmshare, and I can only make so much pumpkin pie from scratch (okay, I haven’t done it yet but I don’t plan on making more than one).

This stuffed pumpkin is really easy and the recipe (written by Dorie Greenspan) is just an outline. I just followed the recipe as it was posted since it was the first time I made it, and it was really good. I think the cheese hid the pumpkin for me. Another bonus: this is a great presentation and would be fun to serve to guests.

• Pumpkin Stuffed with Everything Good (Epicurious, October 2010)