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f you’re tired of flipping burgers, put some sizzle on the grill with your own spiced-up fajitas and soft tacos. These easy recipes start with all-natural chicken marinated in full-bodied Extra Virgin Olive Oil and flavorful spices, then grilled to perfection. Add your grilled chicken to seasoned vegetables and easy, homemade salsa, then wrap it all up in corn tortillas that have been warmed up on the grill for a fresh, homemade taste. It’s so easy to spice up the grill that you just might make every night a grill night.
Fajitas Your Way Put your own spin on Grilled Chicken Fajitas with these tasty ideas:
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bacon, diced, to 1/2 inch strips of chicken. After peppers are sautéed, add diced tomatoes and mushrooms; heat through. Top with ranch dressing.
Jamaican jerk style Marinade Coat chicken with 2 teaspoons jerk seasoning and marinate. Vegetables Add 1 1/2 teaspoons jerk seasoning during sauté. Salsa Combine 1/4 cup each diced papaya and pineapple, 3 tablespoons red onion, 1 garlic clove,minced, 2 teaspoons lime zest, 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice, 1 tablespoon minced cilantro. Lime sour cream Add zest and juice from 1 medium lime to sour cream.
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Stay Safe this Hunting Season
Lighting the Ancient Fires: the History of Halloween METRO GRAPHICS
The ancient festival of Halloween will soon be upon us — the only night of the year when the boundaries between the dead and the living, and day and night, disappear. Believed to be over 2,000 years old, Halloween — All Hallows’ Evening — dates back to the time of the Celts who celebrated the end of summer and the harvest yield on Samhain, the night of October 31. A hugely important festival, the celebrations were led by Druidic priests who believed it was a time when the souls of the dead could communicate with the living. Huge bonfires were lit up and down the land to welcome the friendly spirits of ancestors — and ward off those who wished them harm. People dressed in animal heads and skins and their priests took the sacred embers from house to house, lighting the hearth fires embers to protect their followers during the long winter ahead. Samhain was also a time for divination and the telling of fortunes. As it was harvest, apples featured widely in these rituals — some of which survive today,
such as bobbing for apples where the first person to take a bite would be the first to marry that year. Apple peeling was also thought to indicate how long you would live, depending on the unbroken length of peel. Following the invasion of the Romans in 43 AD, these rituals were incorporated into two festivals — Feralia, which commemorated the dead, and a day devoted to Pomona, the goddess of fruit trees. The advent of Christianity saw the church take hold of the Celtic world and convert the pagan festivals into Christian Holy Days. All Hallows’ Day, also known as All Saints Day, was originally celebrated on May 13 but Pope Gregory moved the feast to November 1 in the 8th century in a bid to assimilate Samhain with an approved day of the dead. A mass was held to honor the saints and martyrs who had died for their faith, preceded by an overnight vigil on what became known as the Eve of All Saints. The early church also believed all souls were released from purgatory for two days until All Souls Day on November 2. Together, the three festivals — the Eve of All Saints, All Saints Day and All Souls
Day — became known as Hallowmass. Although the Church succeeded in establishing Hallowmass as a Christian festival, many people continued to practice the ancient pagan customs and traditions. But these became increasingly discouraged with the Reformation in the 16th century and following the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, Halloween was effectively shifted to November 5, now known as Bonfire or Guy Fawkes Night, in England although the Celtic practices continued in Scotland and Ireland. These beliefs and rituals were brought to America by shiploads of Irish immigrants who fled to the USA to escape the Potato Famine of the mid —1800s. One of these traditions was the baking of soul cakes — small round cakes filled with sugar, cinnamon and raisins and topped with the sign of the cross. These were given to “soulers,” mainly children or the poor, who went from door to door singing and saying prayers for the dead. Each cake eaten was believed to represent one soul freed from purgatory. The custom of Trick Or Treating is believed to date back to this ritual, although the trick part
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Hunting season is underway, and both beginners and old pros are gearing up for adventure. But even the most seasoned hunters don’t know everything about their sport. Hunting can be dangerous, and experts warn that there is such a thing as getting too comfortable with firearms. “Everyone needs instruction,” says David E. Petzal, hunting expert and co-author of several hunting books. “Admitting what you don’t know is actually one of the most crucial steps toward becoming an expert shooter and a safer hunter.” With that in mind, Petzal and co-author Phil Bourjaily are providing crucial safety tips to anyone planning to go hunting this season: ■
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Every time you see a gun, pick one up or point it, assume that it’s loaded and treat it accordingly. Make sure your safety is always on and that the barrel is pointing down when you are walking or transporting your gun. When hunting with dogs, be sure the muzzle is level with the ground at the very least and preferably angled up in the air. Never shoot at a sound or movement. Be absolutely sure that you’re shooting at an animal and that no people are anywhere near your target. Wear at least the required amount of orange so you don’t become another hunter’s target. Make sure all animals are dead before strapping them onto your vehicle. Wait until your kids are old enough to understand and follow rules before bringing them hunting.
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