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Gwinnett Cooperative Extension Service offers class to get your garden to grow

Gwinnett Cooperative Extension Service offers class to get your garden to grow

GWINNETT --  Spring has come early this year, but it is still the perfect time to get in the garden and learn all about what can and cannot grow in the Gwinnett area.

 

Spring is a great time to learn about all the vegetables you can grow in Gwinnett's climate and how to care for them so they will produce bountiful harvests of fresh vegetables until late next fall.

Food Bloggers Dish On How to "Spin" Your Favorite Thanksgiving Dishes

Food Bloggers Dish On How to "Spin" Your Favorite Thanksgiving Dishes When it comes to Thanksgiving food bloggers or “foodies” are anything but traditional. Their favorite philosophy is “Think Outside the Box”. Putting down the Thanksgiving menu is as exciting for them as cooking and sharing the meal with family and friends. Foodies always like to place a creative pin to traditional dishes. The result are unique scrumptious and mouth-watering dishes that could give any professional chef a run for their money.


Recently, food bloggers from "The Brown Culinary Experience" offered their takes on their favorite Thanksgiving dishes.

How To Keep Your Home Pest-Free

How To Keep Your Home Pest-Free

If you’ve noticed some uninvited guests crawling into your home lately, it might be time to take some measures to have better pest control. Ants, for example, can be a very tricky pest to get rid of.

There are several things you can do, however, to keep your home free from unwanted bugs and insects. A few simple control measures will keep pests out of your house for good. Follow this checklist for a pest-free home and enjoy the beauty of your home without irritating and destructive pests and insects. These steps are sure to increase your home’s pest control. Ants will no longer keep you from enjoying your kitchen.

Checklist for a Pest Free Home

  • Check the trees and shrubs in your yard. If there are overgrown branches, shrubbery, vines, etc.

Summer in Georgia & peaches for weeks: What to do with those sweet GA peaches

Summer in Georgia & peaches for weeks: What to do with those sweet GA peaches

Atlanta, GA --  The blog Running With Tweezers has a great article including a variety of great recipes for this year's peaches.  If you have had one of this year's peaches you know they are just delicious!!!  Whether you want to make ice cream, a cake or a cobbler, @RunningWithTweezers.com has the perfect recipe for you.

Around here, we’re really fortunate to have summers full of local peaches. Growing up, they were one of my dad’s favorite foods and they made appearances at our house fairly regularly. Sliced on pound cake or angel food cake, on top of cottage cheese the old school way. In the colder months, he’d even eat canned peaches straight up with a spoon. While I’m not a proponent of the tinned variety, I’m a huge fan of the fresh ones grown here in the South.

WEEKEND EVENTS: 5K's, Car Shows and Garden Tours

WEEKEND EVENTS: 5K's, Car Shows and Garden Tours

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.  – There are tons of fun events going on this weekend, in your area. We’ve listed a few of them for you to check out with your family and friends.

The Gwinnett Braves will host a 5K Family Fun run at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville. The run will begin at 8:00 a.m. and is followed by a one mile family fun run that starts ten minutes later. This run will benefit the American Cancer Society and will cost $30. Participants will, also, get a free ticket to the Saturday matchup against the Toledo Mud Hens.

Norcross Police are inviting you to take part in a 5k run that begins at 8:00 a.m. The run will be called "Cops Helping Unique Kids" or CHUK. The $20 registration fee will go to the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation. There is also a free run and walk that will happen at 10:00 a.m. and a family festival at Thrashers Park.

¿Cómo preparar Orzo Fajitas? How to make Fajita Flavored Orzo?

¿Cómo preparar Orzo Fajitas? How to make Fajita Flavored Orzo?

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A mi me encanta la cocina al igual que me gusta preparar recetas sencillas, llenas de sabor y que tomen menos de media hora en preparar. Esos son mis requisitos ya que no tengo mucho tiempo disponible con los quehaceres del hogar y mi trabajo. Así pues, vi esta receta que me gusto mucho por lo fácil que es de preparar. Espero la disfrutes:

Ingredientes

  • 2 cds aceite vegetal
  • 1 cebolla mediana, rebanada
  • 1 pimiento verde (o rojo), rebanado
  • 2 cdtas ajo, cortado en pedacitos
  • 1/2 lb caderas de pollo deshuesada, rebanada
  • 1 taza orzo (sin cocinar)
  • 2 tazas agua
  • 1/2 cda polvo de chilli
  • 1/2 cda comino
  • 1/2 cda sal
  • 3/4 taza tomates, cortado en cubitos
  • 1/4 taza queso cheddar "shredded"
  • 2 cdtas cliantro fresco (opcional)
  • 1 cda jalapeño cortado bien pequeño

Instrucciones

  1. En una sartén grande a fuego alto, añade la cebolla, pimiento, ajo y pollo.
  2. Cocine, moviendo constantemente, hasta que el pimiento y cebolla se han dorado. Toma alrededor de 4 minutos.
  3. Añade la pasta, y mueve constantemente por 1 minuto.
  4. Añade agua y especias, deja que el agua hierva.
  5. Reduce el fuego a lento (low); pon la tapa al sartén.
  6. Deja cocer a fuego lento (low) por 12 minutos. Recuerda mover varias veces la pasta. (Sabrás cuando el líquido se haya evaporado).
  7. Añade el tomate.
  8. Al momento de servir, añade el queso a gusto (y el cilantro y japapeños si así deseas).

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WEEKEND EVENTS: National Public Gardens Day, kiln opening and Spring Fling

WEEKEND EVENTS: National Public Gardens Day, kiln opening and Spring Fling

ATHENS, Ga. – There are tons of fun events going on this weekend, in your area. We’ve listed a few of them for you to check out with your family and friends.

To commemorate National Public Gardens Day, sponsored by the Rain Bird and American Public Gardens Association, nationwide gardens are offering free admission with a coupon printout, which can be found here. The State Botanical Garden of Georgia, located in Athens, is accepting these coupons. The Garden is located about three miles south of the University. The address is 2450 South Milledge Avenue in Athens.

Visit Vines Garden in Loganville on Sunday May 7 from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. for National Train Day at Vines Garden. This event is being presented by Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation. Engineers will be on hand holding information sessions on trains at the largest railroad in the Southeast.