For the Palate
4 medium boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Salt and fresh ground black pepper
4 tbsp flour
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 cup cherry tomatoes
1/4 cup halved olives ( I use Castelvetrano -but Kalamata or both!)
2 leeks, cut into 1/2 inch chunks
2 medium Yukon gold potatoes cubed
1/2 cup chicken stock
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1 lemon cut into eights
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 bunch fresh basil chopped
1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
Instructions: Preheat Oven to 350F
Salt and pepper your chicken to taste. Dredge in flour (lightly) and add to your frying pan with olive oil and butter on medium heat. You don’t want your chicken to cook all the wat through. Once lightly browned on both sides (3-4 minutes per side) lay them in a baking dish.
Mix chicken stock, lemon juice and garlic into a small bowl until well combined. Set aside.
Add lemons, tomatoes, potatoes and leeks into your baking dish, around and on top of chicken. Pour your stock over the chicken and vegetables. Bake for 25-30 minutes. Make sure your chicken is done….but tender, 165 o with a thermometer. Remove from oven and top with basil and feta cheese.
Tasty to the Palate!
For Your Soul
Hippocrates, a great physician and father of medicine, coined a term in 430 B.C. that is still used today.; “We are what we eat”. Since then, food is thought to play an important role in our bodies spiritually, mentally, and physically.
Hippocrates was a great physician, but Jesus was The Great Physician. And He cares far more for us than just our eating habits. He goes right to the heart of our true health, spiritually, by declaring in Matthew 15:18: “But whatever comes from the mouth has come out of the heart. These things make the man unclean inside.”
A heart monitor helps to tell you medically what is going on with your heart rate and rhythms. It helps your doctor to get to the root cause of the heart’s condition and treat it appropriately. But in Matthew 15:18 Jesus is saying that what we believe in our hearts, i.e., who we have made the king of our throne (our soul) is what will eventually come out in our thoughts, our words and ultimately our actions. This Scripture is also a “heart monitor”. It is just a much deeper and more vital monitor that one found in a doctor's office.
This verse says “Check your spiritual blood pressure!” If it is unhealthy, change bad habits with Christ-centered ones. As long as I am living, I plan on eating healthy and not only exercising this body that is growing older every day, but I want a healthy thriving heart that beats for Jesus. How about you? Is it time for a check up?
Satisfying to the Soul!
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