Chicken Thighs with Yellow Split Peas and Fruit

Dad can always whip up a spectacular meal. He starts cooking in between football games while Mom and I run off to go grocery shopping on a Sunday evening, and as we leave. tells us a few things to pick up. This week it was chicken thighs and dried apricots.
Mom and I came home and sat down to a two-course meal. After the pesto shrimp with spaghetti, he served chicken served over yellow split-peas as well as apples, dried apricots (he accused me of buying figs), carmelized onion, and carrots.