Apple and chicken in cream sauce

We, Japanese, have a tradition to send a gift to friends and family members in the end of a year. It is the season for that year end gift. It is comparable to Christmas gift in the Western world. It is not firmly based on a religion like Christianity. In the Shogun era, they have started sending gifts to friends. There is an opinion it was started as sharing of the items for worshipping ancestors to neighbors. This gift is called Seibo that stands for a year end. It has become popular among ordinary people in the Meiji era. 

Anyway, believing such a custom is old fashioned meaningless formalism, I am sending this kind of gift to only limited number of friends/family members. This year, we have received a lot of apples. Almost over 3 dozens of them. Apple is a fruit of this season. But I am reluctant to have them every day.

I have cooked chicken and apple creamed with carrot, mushroom and onion. I have never tried this recipe in the past. I just would like to consume apples... Apples and the vegetables are, poorly enough, suffocated in the cream sauce. 

It may be easier to eat apples themselves than to cook them...