Georgia country unit

You know what makes it hard to find information on a country? When that country has the same name as a state. So, if you’re ever trying to find information on Georgia the country, search up Georgia country, it really does help. That’s my quick tip before we dive into this geography lesson.

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Georgia Resources

I’m sure you’re shocked to hear my library had no books about Georgia, Europe. It had several books about Georgia O’Keefe, the colony and state of Georgia, books written by someone with the last name of Georgia, and books published in Georgia.

After I’d waded through all of those books, I gave up and looked at my fun facts to see if they would give me information or ideas to pull in.

Spoiler: they didn’t. They were just fun facts.

• 13 Interesting Georgia Facts
• Georgia Facts for Kids

And because, I like the flag videos, I give you Flag Friday:

Georgia Recipe

I searched up Georgian recipes, and after doing some searching I found this cornish game hen recipe with so much garlic. It was a great recipe, and I might try making it again but with an actual chicken (it’s tricky to prepare the cornish game hens).

• Georgian Style Cornish Game Hen with Garlic Sauce
• Georgian Cheese Bread

Cornish game hen ingredients

• 1 cornish game hen, backbone removed per 2 people (depending on size an how hungry you are, The Artist and I split one, but Jeff ate most of one by himself)- the rest of the ingredients assume you are cooking 2 cornish game hens
• 2 teaspoons cayenne
• 1 head of garlic (5 cloves mashed into paste, and the rest roughly chopped)
• kosher salt
• 2 sticks unsalted butter
• 2 1/2 cups chicken stock

Let’s make those cornish game hens

1. After you’ve cut out the backbone, put the hen on the cutting board (breast side up), and then using the heel press down to flatten the hen. If you need to cover it with plastic wrap, and flatten it more with a mallet (I did not do this when cooking mine).
2. Mix together the cayenne, garlic paste, and the kosher salt. Rub the mix onto the hen, on both sides of it. If you’re following the instructions of the site I found, you now cover it with plastic wrap and let it chill for 1 hour. I didn’t do that.
3. Melt half a stick of butter in a skillet, and cook the hen skin side down using a grill press or cast iron skillet to press it down (I was cooking two of them, and so in one pan I used a grill press we use for cooking bacon, and in the other I used a small cast iron pan. The cast iron pan works slightly better). Cook for 5-7 minutes.
4. Flip the hen over and put the weight back on. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook for another 20-25 minutes.
5. Flip hen one last time and add the other half stick of butter. Cook for another 5 minutes, basting the hen with butter.
6. Remove the hen from the pan and let it rest for 10 minutes. While it is resting, add the rest of the garlic to the butter and cook it for 4-6 minutes Add the chicken broth and salt and bring it to a simmer. Cook until the sauce is slightly reduced, about 15 minutes or so.

Georgian Cornish Game Hen

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A delicious garlicky chicken great paired with some roasted potatoes

Ingredients

• 2 cornish game hens, backbone removed
• 2 teaspoons cayenne
• 1 head of garlic (5 cloves mashed into paste, and the rest roughly chopped)
• kosher salt
• 2 sticks unsalted butter
• 2 1/2 cups chicken stock

Instructions

1. After you’ve cut out the backbone, put the hen on the cutting board (breast side up), and then using the heel press down to flatten the hen. If you need to cover it with plastic wrap, and flatten it more with a mallet (I did not do this when cooking mine).
2. Mix together the cayenne, garlic paste, and the kosher salt. Rub the mix onto the hen, on both sides of it.
3. Melt half a stick of butter in a skillet over medium high heat, and cook the hen skin side down using a grill press or cast iron skillet to press it down. Cook for 5-7 minutes.
4. Flip the hen over and put the weight back on. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook for another 20-25 minutes
5. Flip hen one last time and add the other half stick of butter. Cook for another 5 minutes, basting the hen with butter.
6. Remove the hen from the pan and let it rest for 10 minutes. While it is resting, add the rest of the garlic to the butter and cook it for 4-6 minutes Add the chicken broth and salt and bring it to a simmer. Cook until the sauce is slightly reduced, about 15 minutes or so.

I planned to make the cheese bread, but ran out of time, so I just roasted potatoes with garlic and kosher salt, and they were delicious with the kind of sort of gravy sauce.

Georgia country unit notebooking pages

I’m always amused to learn a country has a different name for itself than the rest of the world uses, why does this happen?

Georgia is an odd country because according to both my Europe and Asia lists, it’s on both continents. I look at the map and I think Asia, but I could see how it could be categorized as European. I wonder what Georgians think…

Looking back up at my notebooking pages, I just realized that was one of my fun facts.

• I found the 8 stone warriors fascinating
• the fact that it has 3 separate alphabets AND
• stone beaches

I realize stone beaches are kind of a weird fact to write down, but the images I saw caught my attention, so I wrote it down.

And that was our Georgia country unit. Literally, that’s how I searched everything I found for them, Georgia country. Yes, I know it’s kinda weird.

More geography from around the world

• Georgia (state) unit, super old post and out of date
• Grenada Unit
• Afghanistan Unit (out of date with events from the summer of 2021, 2 months after I wrote the post)
• Burundi Unit
• Guatemala Unit

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