Apple Cider Chicken

I love love love this one!! Thanks Sunny!

Apple Cider Chicken by Sunny Anderson

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 2 pounds)
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1/2 Vidalia onion, chopped
• 1 Granny Smith apple, cored and sliced into 1/4-inch wedges
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 teaspoons dried thyme
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups apple cider

Directions

Heat oil and 1 tablespoon butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper, add to pan and sear until golden, about 4 minutes each side. Remove chicken from pan, and set aside. Add remaining butter and onion, apple, garlic, thyme and bay leaves. Saute until apple begins to get color and onions soften, about 6 minutes. Add flour and stir 2 to 3 minutes. Nestle chicken back into pan, add cider, bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer and cover. Cook until chicken is cooked through, about 12 minutes.

How He Loves!!

Thinking about the Father's Love for us, especially during this Valentine's Day season.

I love the lyrics to this song, by the David Crowder Band. Enjoy them below as well as the video at the bottom.

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He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,

Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

And oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

Yeah, He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves.

We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
And Heaven meets earth like an unforseen kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…

MomHeart Conference

I went to this last this year and it was really refreshing. Mrs. Clarkson was very sweet, and an inspiration to me in this season.

My friend Andrea and I had such a good time that we said we needed to tell lots of other moms next year.

The conference dates are February 26-27 at the Las Colinas Marriott.

Here's where you can find more information
http://wholeheart.typepad.com/itakejoy/mom-heart-conferences-2010.html

What do Classical Conversations students learn in Cycle 2?

In Classical Conversations' Foundations Cycle 2, students learn.......

• 160 events & people in a chronological timeline
• 24 history sentences to "put some flesh" on our timeline (including Charlemagne, Reformation, Renaissance, World Wars…)
• 44 U.S. presidents
• 100 locations and geographic features in Europe, Asia and select parts of the world
• 24 science facts (biomes, planets, laws of motion, laws of thermodynamics…)
• Latin verbs – the first conjugation
• English grammar facts (including pronouns, adverbs and adjectives…)
• Multiplication tables up to 15x15, common squares and cubes, as well as basic geometry formulas and unit conversions

That's over 500 pieces of information!

Not to mention…

• Exposure to drawing techniques
• Music theory and tin whistle
• Six great artists and related projects
• Introduction to orchestra and three classical composers
• Twelve science experiments and…
• The practicing and refinement of oral presentation skills!

According to Proverbs 24:3-4, the stages of learning are knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.

www.ClassicalConversations.com