Recipe Apple and Sage Pork Loin

I made this for dinner one night last week and it was delicious! The recipe is adapted from McCormick (the spice people). Unfortunately the photo doesn't do it justice. It smelled and tasted wonderful! I served it with garlic roasted veggies, but it would be great with mashed or roasted potatoes too.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 pound pork loin
1 1/2 tsp rubbed sage
1 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp fresh thyme
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1/2 tsp paprika
1 tsp fresh rosemary
1 Tbsp flour
1 tsp salt
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 half red onion thinly sliced
2 small red apples thinly sliced
1/2 cup Marsala cooking wine
1 Tbsp brown sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix flour and all spices and salt in small bowl. Sprinkle all sides of pork loin with seasoned flour. Add olive oil to large skillet and brown pork on medium-high heat. Be sure to brown all sides to seal in the juices. Remove from skillet and set in roasting pan. Add onion and garlic to skillet and cook and stir for 3 minutes. Add apples and cook and stir for 2 minutes. Then stir in Marsala and brown sugar. Bring to a boil then reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Next pour mixture over pork in roasting pan and bake in preheated 350 degree oven until internal temp reaches 170 degrees, approx 45 minutes to 1 hour depending on your oven. Remove meat and let rest for 15 minutes before slicing and serving.

Enjoy!

Quotes for the New Year

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland

The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. ~P.J. O'Rourke

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

CSN Review

I know I've said it before and I'll say it again. I love the CSN family of stores. There are just so many great deals on so many products! I always have great luck shopping with them and the service has been impeccable.

This time I was able to snag this great dog bed for Bella. When I pulled it from the box it was amazed by how big and fluffy it is. The stuffing is really full and doesn't seem to shift around like in some other beds. And I love that the cover is heavy duty, but still soft enough to be comfortable and it's washable. Bella loves her new "nest."

If you've never shopped at CSN I recommend you check them out before your next purchase. With over 200 stores and millions of items in stock, many with free shipping, you can always find a bargain there!

This post was written for CSN who provided a complimentary product in order to facilitate this review.

Aloha Friday

Greetings friends. I hope you are all off to a great start in the New Year! I've taken a couple of weeks off from AF, but I'm glad to be back ;)

My question for this week is: What kind of camera do you use and are you happy with it?


Thanks for coming by! Be sure to stop by An Island Life for more Aloha Friday fun.

Currclick's Secret Sale

Have you heard? There's a secret sale going on at Currclick. I use their products often in our homeschooling and always love the freebies, who doesn't?! Right now they are having a secret sale. Here are the details:

Check out the Winter Whisper Freebies!

Winter Whisper Sale Right now at CurrClick, in this non-public location of our website, our Winter Whisper Sale and Giveaway is going on. 10 brand new freebies are being given away, 10 of our best selling publishers have discounted all their resources by 50% AND NOBODY knows about it but you. It's NOT on our homepage, it's NOT on our Facebook page, it's not anywhere but here.

It's hard to keep a secret though, right? And we're not going to make you. In fact, feel free to run off at the mouth as much as you would like. You can tell your Facebook and Twitter followers, your co-op, your neighbor, your newsgroups, even your strange Great Uncle. The only thing we ask you NOT to do is post the details on our Facebook page.

And what are the details?

1. The secret phrase is: "Shhhhhh CurrClick has a secret..." It will be fun to post this phrase in as many places possible. We want people to wonder what is going on!
2. The URL for the sale is: http//:www.currclick.com/cclick_wintersale.php. Feel free to give the secret URL and details to whomever you like. Encourage them to start whispering too. You can give them the secret phrase, the URL and all the details so they can help pass along the word to all their co-ops, friends, family and all their weird Great Uncles too.
3. CurrClick's Winter Whisper Sale ends January 19th.

People say that word of mouth is powerful in the homeschool community. Let's find out!

Shhhh... well, not really!

Wordless Wednesday

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5 Minutes for Mom
Wordless Wednesday HQ
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