Many uses for the great pumpkin

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The pumpkin is a symbol of fall. It shows up on doorsteps around this time of year in intricately carved forms or as a post-turkey cameo on Thanksgiving, tucked into a delicious pie. Unfortunately, for the most part, many of us forget about this round, orange fruit after the season.

Poor pumpkins. It's too bad we think of them so one-dimensionally, especially since pumpkins are probably one of the most versatile fruits known to man. Its understated, pleasant flavor makes it a keeper.

Let's start with the seeds, called pepitas. How often can you eat large seeds that come from a fruit? Toasted pumpkin seeds, when roasted and salted well, are great to munch on and can be sprinkled over the tops of sandwiches for a crunchy treat. They also contain a good amount of tryptophan, a protein that your body needs to extract from food because it doesn't produce it. It also contains omega-3 fatty acids, a good fat. A 12 ounce bag can be found for just $1.99 at Trader Joe's.

The flesh of the pumpkin itself can be pureed, chopped or purchased in canned form. Really, it's just like any other winter squash, such as butternut or acorn. Often, the pumpkin can be used interchangeably with these other squashes; it cooks similarly and shares many of the same properties with them.

If you choose to buy whole pumpkins, which you should if you truly want to get into the holiday spirit, make sure to buy small ones. Big pumpkins are large, unwieldy and, generally, just bad news when it comes to cooking. Save those for funky carvings and use the smaller ones to cook. They're also easier to peel and not as messy.

Once you get the skin off of them (probably the most arduous part of the process), you'll have beautiful orange flesh staring you in the face. You can then cut the pumpkin into pieces and roast it at high heat (450 degrees) for about 30 to 40 minutes with a drizzle of olive oil over the top.

Once done, you can simply eat it on its own: The natural sugars will come out, giving it a slightly sweet flavor. You can also toss it into your typical pasta dish, add them over eggs or onto anything else you think it might go well with. It doesn't have to be fancy.

You can also try pureeing the pumpkin into a soup (for those of us fortunate enough to own a Cuisinart food processor), and there are many fantastic pumpkin soup and bisque recipes, both online - Epicurious.com is always a good source - and in cookbooks.

As for baked goods, canned pumpkin is often just as good as the real thing. If you choose to go the pie route, or something as adventurous as, say, pumpkin pancakes, save yourself some time and just use the canned stuff.

With all this talk, it is easy to forget about the nutritional benefits of pumpkins. The orange flavor of the fruit itself means that it contains high amounts of beta carotene, which is converted to vitamin A in your body. Don't forget that pumpkin is a fruit! It doesn't always have to be surrounded by sugar and butter in pie. It is, believe it or not, good for you on its own.

So don't just carve pumpkins this season. Eat them, and eat them in new, creative ways. Don't miss out on the sweet, sweet flesh that's often hidden behind its carved-out face.


Zach Subar is a columnist. E-mail him at etcetera@nyunews.com.


Pumpkin picking
Pick a pumpkin that is deep in orange color; free from cuts, bruises and soft spots; and make sure the flesh is on the hard side and the stem is attached.

Fourth, the future of food packaging machinery demand

With the accelerated pace of day-to-day work, nutrition and health foods rich in environmental awareness increases, and the future of food packaging will certainly put forward many new requirements. This includes the development of local conditions vigorously vacuum packaging, vacuum packaging and inflatable aseptic packaging, and other new technologies, new products, and quick-frozen packaged so that it organically combined.n

Focus on the present and future, can confirm the following three types of packaging machine is suitable for packaging food sales outstanding aircraft, and may indeed call it has a long history and rich strong vitality of the dominant models, the vertical bags ( Cartridge) molding filling-sealing machine, horizontal kit (box) molding filling-sealing machine, horizontal seam binding machine.n

According to group technology to analyze ideas, and the commonality among the similarity of more help to unify development, and various other special differences, We should choose. Based on the overall comparison, in its main features are as follows:

Packaging objects - will be three aircraft of the match almost all-encompassing (usually with the exception of gas-liquid material), only the third limitations.n

Packaging form - the second Synchronized more, such as triangular envelope, the four halves envelope, double-bag, self-reliance bag, brick-type boxes, roof-shaped boxes; first Habitat Second, third below normal, usually mainly to pillow-shaped bags, and some bags can be manufactured cylinder, four-sided sealed bags.n

Structure portfolio - comprehensive statements to reflect modular, especially the second level layout more user-friendly configuration of functional modules (such as vacuum, filling nitrogen), together with a high degree of mechanical and electrical integration, diversity, versatility, multi-functional integration of that much stronger, and formed a serialization of products.n

Fifth, China s Food and Packaging Machinery Industry Development Strategy

1. Scale and a group

The production capacity of enterprises continue to focus on the scale of North Korea, the Group of development in pursuit of economies of scale. SMEs in the current financial and technical strength enough solid state, should not be blind to introduce production lines, available to large-scale enterprises to provide spare parts for machinery production model.

2. Develop new export products

China s food and packaging machinery technology accessible, cheap, very suitable for developing countries and regional economic conditions, the future of these countries and regions to the broad prospects for exports, part of the equipment can also export to the developed countries.n

Technological content of their products

No good technology as the development of enterprises backing, it is impossible to go long. Realizing electromechanical integration, intelligence, and information technology to the development of products, the introduction of new technologies to speed up enterprise ISO9000 certification progress. Further enhancing the technological level of equipment, stability, reliability. Brave face reality, positive change in this state, and improve product development capacity, develop its own ability to innovate, to catch up.n

Innovation in new product development

China s food packaging machinery most of the imported equipment from developed on the basis of the larger gap with foreign products or blank, should actively introduce advanced technology, digestion and absorption, thoroughly by gradually to fully grasp. But on the basis of a certain product and to a certain extent similar foreign products gap learn from the approach taken to strengthen the relevant key technology, the core technology research and development to encourage innovation.n

Experts believe that beer bottling machinery should focus on the development of complete sets of equipment with an annual output of 50,000 tons of medium-sized equipment and appropriately develop an annual output of 100,000 tons more large equipment. High-speed, low-loss, measurement precision, can automatically detect and other multi-functional, fully-automated equipment for a good prospect. Beverage machinery to adapt to the main focus of production, spread filling beverages direction of development, the development of the scene deployment beer and beverage technology and equipment.

(2) facilitate the production of food packaging complete sets of equipment

The instant noodles, instant porridge, dumplings, BAO Zi representatives, and other production machinery for the convenience of complete sets of equipment and food processing products demand is growing.n

Traditional food processing and the elderly and infant food processing equipment market prospects for the same good, and the enterprises should focus on development.

(3) slaughtering and meat processing and packaging machinery

Mechanical livestock slaughtering poultry, meat processing machinery, refined meat-processing machinery and packaging machinery is the development direction. In particular the large and medium-sized cities Bargain Center need to sell these products packaging, packaging machinery to be published. In recent years, the development of urban and rural vigorously raising, slaughtering train the aquaculture industry, the urgent need to improve the small and medium poultry slaughter and processing of livestock packaging equipment, large-scale slaughtering of newly purchased equipment, the development of the site segmentation processing technology and equipment, packaging equipment, ham, Dog Food processing, and other refined packaging machinery, the market prospects are also quite broad.n

Expected future market demand for these products include: vegetables fruit grading technology equipment, high-efficiency Juicer technology equipment, energy saving enrichment technology and equipment, wash and selected by the quick-frozen bags of fresh vegetables and fruits and vegetables and vegetable dehydration technology and equipment , significantly reduced fruit and vegetable, grain, meat, fish, eggs and other food processing machinery loss of raw materials, used for gas, Co60 radiation, such as sulfide bed technology and equipment for storage and preservation of new technology and equipment, fresh fruit and vegetable processing transport chain equipment, such as gas cryogenic preservation for the equipment, refrigeration refrigerated trucks for transportation, refrigerators, kitchen refrigerators, and other serial devices.

China s food machinery or for the future development of the enterprise is in the hands of many in the government enabling policy support, enterprises only practical adherence to the above direction and follow a long-term development path, I believe that in the near future, we can see that China Food Machinery s new bright spot!

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