Chicken with Dried Fruit and Honey

Not a very inventive name, since that was just about the only ingredients, but it is what it is. We had this last night for supper, it was very tasty. It's from the BH&G 365 Last Minute Meals. It's from the "fall" section, which as I said before just happens to be at the front of the cookbook, and of course I am going in order...but this is definitely a "fallish" recipe.

Chicken with Dried Fruit and Honey
8 skinless, boneless chicken thighs
1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (it's expensive to buy and you might already have the ingredients: 1/4 cup cinnamon, and 1 tbsp each of ginger, nutmeg, and cloves...it makes a bunch, but it keeps)
1 tbsp butter
1 cup mixed dried fruit bits
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup honey

Sprinkle 1 side of each chicken thigh with pumpkin pie spice. In a 12 inch skillet, melt butter over medium high heat. Add chicken thighs; reduce heat to medium. Cook about 4 minutes or until brown, turning occasionally. Stir fruit bits, water, and honey into skillet. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, covered, for 10 to 15 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink (180 degrees).

In my continuing quest to get the kids to like rice because of Haiti, I made this with rice and put some of the sauce with the fruit over it. Everyone liked the chicken, but Sam is the only kid who will eat rice right now. Emma and Nathan just keep saying "I don't like rice." Fine then, what will you eat when we are in Haiti? I simply do not know. Hee hee. They'll get used to it I suppose. Or just eat lots of bananas. But the chicken was yummy and tender. It smelled fabulous while it was cooking. The dried fruit kind of rehydrated while it was cooking so it wasn't chewy like raisins, it was like real fruit...I think our mix was blueberries and cranberries, whatever they had at the Wal-mart. We will definitely have this again once it actually is fall.