Whoops. So a few days ago I was reminded (by my mother) that a special day was around the corner. Yes, I am the wife who totally forgot about our anniversary until 2 days ago. That’s okay, I am pretty sure, no I am certain that the hubs did too. So I’m taking the afternoon off to go do things with the hubs. This cutie pie below.
Things like every couple loves to do when celebrating anniversaries. Like visit the bike shop, go for a trail run, and maybe grab a glass of wine down at the viaduct harbor. No seriously, that’s what we wanted to do. Easy to please you might say. Plus, if I really wanted to, I could pull the…
“well it’s our anniversary in the states tomorrow” card and celebrate again. Hehe, sneaky!
But I promised some peas but oh this recipe is more than peas. So make it, maybe for a celebration dinner, or for someone easy to please.
Green Chicken and Peas
| Green Chicken and Peas |
- Chicken Broth or vegetable broth
- 1/2 cup chopped parsley
- 1 chopped garlic cloves
- 1 tsp chili pepper
- 1 tsp black pepper
- turmeric (optional)
- natural butter
- green peas (fresh or frozen)
- Salsa
- Avocado
- Chicken breasts or wings (skin on)
- Bring 2-3 cups chicken broth and 1/2-1 cup water to a boil, just enough to cover the amount of chicken you are adding in. Add in 1-2 tbsp oil, chicken (skin on), garlic, parsley, turmeric, and pepper. Simmer for about 20 minutes or until chicken is almost done, but not totally done.
- Drain juices (keep herbs and a little juice for coating later). Return to the stove and add in peas with 1 tbsp. natural butter. Add in your chili pepper and the broth/juice you kept. Cook on low to medium low until peas are cooked and chicken is done.
- Feel free to add in a corn/pea/carrot mixture instead.
- Serve chicken (skin on or off) on top of peas and add fresh avocado and salsa to top!
- Best served with a side of sticky brown rice or white rice. I even added in some chopped nuts and raisins.
Are you easy to please?
I’m going to tell myself I am. There, I’m pleased.
Cheers,
LC
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looks great, I will have to try this!
Melissa recently posted..Monday randomness
oh let me know if you give it a whirl!
Haha I am going to go ahead and tell myself I am easy to please too
Happy Anniversary!! Those peas look amazing!
MegSmith @ Cooking.In.College recently posted..The Best Gingerbread Cookies
i think you are so its official! hehe.
Are you easy to please?
Haha love it! Yes I actually am, its the little things that make me so happy!
Happy Tuesday love!
katie recently posted..Oh { honey }
oh yes you are and I love that about you!
Happy anniversary!! I say celebrate both days
hehe!! this recipe looks awesome! I loooove peas!! 
jobo recently posted..On challenges and unseating comfort zones
i think i will sucker him into it, yes?
Happy Anniversary dear friend! your all’s celebration sounds perfect to me. i am very easy to please and all about the simple things
simple and affordable! haha. Love that!
I think being a preschool teacher has made me very easy to please. Every day is a little victory!
Katie @ Raisins&Apples recently posted..Addict
oh you win, hands down! easy to please and FUN!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to you guys!
Excited for the new year ahead and your celebration sounds perfect…enjoy every bit of it, and can’t wait to hear exactly what you did and see some pictures! Happy Anniversary again to you and James.
i can’t reveal all that we do. hehe….get the picture?
Happy Anniversary!! Sounds like a great way to spend any day if you ask me. Jason and I would totally go for a run on our anniversary too.
Heather (Where’s the Beach) recently posted..Prosperity Dinner Bowl & Great 4-Miler
haha, i think i remember you guys doing that in fact! love it!
Happy Anniversary to ya’ll!!!!
That chicken sounds amazing!
Gen recently posted..It’s 2012!
it is! make it for your family. That might PLEASE them.
Happy happy anniversary you two! I would want to spend my day the same way- tons of outdoors time, exercise and wine. And I’d like to think I’m easy to please. I can be good with some friends or family time, a drink out, or a simple meal in to celebrate something and I’m happy as can be.
yes m’am! you are my kind of gal. I just know it!
Happy Anniversary!!
Yay!!!! As I was reading this my hubby just got annoyed and kept asking “what’s so funny”. I told him that I just love the way you write. 
Fun recipe! Pass over the peas! 
Kristin @ STUFT Mama recently posted..Dinner and a Show- A Talent Show
oh you do? good, its rubbing off on someone. Cheers! wine time!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! I love you guys and I hope you have a great anniversary! That sounds like the best time to me too! A trail run makes any day awesome! Have a great one! <3
Emma (Sweet Tooth Runner) recently posted..Vegan Sports Nutrition
Happy anniversary! Today is my anniversary with Jimmy– 3 years and 3 months
I am pretty easy to please.. I only require lots of coffee, pb, and sleep
Allie recently posted..Life lately & my nose
As usual nothing but amazing recipes! Wow!
Mamarunsbarefoot recently posted..Yes Virginia, we actually do need to eat it
delish!! i like to think i’m easy to please…my hubs could probably answer more accurately
Sam recently posted..beautiful key necklace giveaway
haha, mine could too! we’re easy to please for each other. Right?
Happy Annie to y’all!
Enjoy your day and the peas
<3
Klh recently posted..Yep
Happy Anniversary! That’s my kinda celebration- totally relaxed!
The Hippie Health Nut recently posted..When Life Hands you Crumb-y Cookie Dough…
indeed, relaxed and content! Cheers!
happy anniversary! it seems like you had a great day!
i’m definitely easy to please – j always asks me to go out to dinner or a movie and i always refuse – sometimes (always) i’d just so much rather make dinner at home and watch a rental!
plus, i hate dressing up!
comfy pjs for me, pretty please … or pretty peas!
tea-bagginit recently posted..Mum’s the Word Monday-Christmas Present Edition
sounds good to me! and dressing up is hard work!
Happy Anniversary to you two adorable cuties! Sounds like you have a great time planned. Enjoy your time together as I know you will! Oh and the eats look amazing! Love the color! It’s my favorite!
Sarena (The Non-Dairy Queen) recently posted..Happy New Year!
me too! the greener the better, right? Thanks for the fun wishes, we are just glad to be here.
Happy early Anniversary to you too!!!
And peas can be easy to please for me, well most of the time. haha
Peas is one of those things that I have to be in the mood for
HUGS
Pure2raw twins recently posted..golden berries pancakes
i agree! peas have been my mood lately, not sure why, but I’ll just go with it. hehe.
happy anniversary to you and James! I’m glad you get to celebrate in the summertime over in NZ.
Dorry recently posted..2012
oh me too! its been a gift in itself.
p.s.
when is your next day off?
Happy anniversary you guys!! Hooray!
I’m pretty easy to please… I think? Maybe not at a Steak House for dinner, but ya know
Lou recently posted..Comment on Less meat, more $$$. by Brittany
how about a good market or grocery store instead?! Thats easy and so fun! hehe.
OK. This looks like a Katie-meal. Can I please move in with you guys?
Katie recently posted..Grab bag: Red onion and Date Jam
i keep telling you to come on down. No joke!
happy anni Cotters! <3
friends "make fun" of Jason and I because we celebrate SO MANY anniversaries…
sounds like a perfect day – and celebrating twice, even better!
Kris recently posted..the critters on vacation
hey, the more the merrier so celebrate often. Life is too shor, right?!
Yum! Sounds good to me
Tiff @ Love Sweat and Beers recently posted..WIAW: The Good, The Cute, & The Ugly
easy to please you are!
ours is next week and HELL YES.
Im sooo easy to peas
happy anniversary.
Cheers to 14 years?? is that right? Happy early anniversary friend!
I don’t think my last comment went through,but this might be a double comment. Anyway, happy anniversary! I like to think I am easy to please. Life is better when you can find pleasure in the little things!
oh thank you Tara. Life’s simple pleasures is what its all about. right?
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY COTTERS!!! much love always!
mmm peas and thank you!
Kim K recently posted..Is That Your Final Answer?
ahh thanks Kim. Can’t complain that we’re celebrating in NZ, eh?
Happy Anniversary! I can’t believe you and James forgot! haha! Keith and I probably make the biggest deal out of our anniversary than any other holiday. It is a bigger deal than our birthdays, Christmas, New Years, etc. I don’t know why we are like that. But we have 6 years coming up in a few months and I am already planning!
Kelly recently posted..pretty in pink
oh and i love that about you two! I think ours gets mixed in with all the holiday stuff and creeps up on us. Ya know? And 6 years! WOW! Time flys when you are having fun. hehe.
Perfect timing…hubby just asked if we could have peas with dinner..now I know what I am cooking tonight! Easy to please? Some of the time! Our last anniversary we spent on the wharf, enjoying lunch (and wine) and strolling through some shops. Perfection! Enjoy your day!
Jenn (A Runner’s Road) recently posted..Little Green Guys
sounds perfect to me too! Love the wharf and wine of course.
HAPPY anniversary! Since you are so far ahead “days” wise maybe it all works itself out, ha ha. Enjoy the day!! xx
Nichole recently posted..Running Through The Fountain of Youth
i agree. Works me for. 2 days of celebrating! hehe, i’m so cheating.
what kind of chicken, etc do you buy? I don’t live in a great place and have no organic , etc options..i usually just get plain old chicken breasts and think its wrong…but feel all the other stuff is wrong cause it is fatty or the wrong cuts..plus, none of this is organic…same thing with beef…
i think you could use any! i just grabbed some from the local supermarket here. PLain old chicken works just fine friend.
Happy anniversary to SUCH a beautiful and loving couple!! I love the simplicity of your celebratory plans, so fitting. I’m dying for a picnic…even if just in our living room, that would be a perfect date night to me
Jess recently posted..Embracing un-routine
oh do it! floor is fun! with pillows and blankets and WINE!
Happy anniversary, you adorable lovebirds!! Alex and I will celebrate 4 years together next Wednesday… instead of giving gifts, we are splitting the cost of an awesome pots and pans set since our current set is pretty lacking, and we’ll probably enjoy a quiet meal together in the evening after we both get off work. Your day sounds like a great one to me!
xo
Christin@purplebirdblog recently posted..Cheers and Jeers
oh thats perfect! we are at 4 years too! celebrate each other with what you love! Happy early annivesary.
Awww Happy Anniversary!! You and the hubby are so so cute and I hope you had an amazing day. I like to think I am easy to please. It is all about the simple things in life right?
Rachelle recently posted..You Have to Start to be Great
oh thank you Rachelle. SImple things make life great, yes?!
Happy Anniversary! I think it’s awesome that you both wanted a simple anniversary celebration – you have each other!
we’re saving the real celebration for our 10 year. Only 6 more years to go. haha.
Happy Anniversary to you and James!
hope that you two are enjoyed a double celebration- NZ and USA days! 
2012 is off to a good start…double anniversary! 
Bre recently posted..2012…
hehe, you know i am trying to draw it out!
p.s.
I am trying to find the address for where we are staying. You’d think i would know it by now. haha.
that sounds like something we would do too! bike shop, trail run and wine-perfect!
oh i know! Gosh, we would have so much fun together. But we already know that.
I’m not easy to please – but I’m resolving to change that. Well, actually, I am easy to please when it comes to other people, but I am constantly letting myself down and I think THAT is the most important thing to get over!
Laura @ LauraLivesLife recently posted..2012 New Year’s WIAW!
oh yes, that can be hard and of course i can relat in that sense Laura. Trying to change that is first step! yes!
Happy happy anniversary to you!! =)
The recipe looks delicious!
Lisa ♥ Healthful Sense recently posted..What I Ate Wednesday: Goals For 2012
Thanks Lisa! Cheers to more years, more recipes, and more living life!
I am not easy to please when I feel forgotten, but overall I just like a quiet acknowledgement. Your celebration sounds like it was just perfect.
AlexandraFunFit recently posted..Push-ups for Patriots
true, just acknowledgement alone is HUGE> Feeling special and loved. Thats what matters, yes m’am!
Ha! I love that you guys both forgot. That makes it OK too
Sounds like a great time!
I’d say I’m easy to please, but my husband might differ…haha
well we will go with your vote. I say yes Paige, easy to please and always at ease. hehe.
Recipe looks YUMMY! I love peas…none in my cupboard this week…maybe next. This week it’s corn. HA! I’m easy to please when it comes to food, wine, and love. Now I just need to find the love…xoxo
She Rocks Fitness recently posted..Something To Think About + WIAW
oh you will like this one! so many good flavors and GREAT for our leftover salad fixes. haha.
LOVE this recipe! peas are such an underrated ingredient! so many of my fam members haaaaaaaaaaaaaaate peas haha so i never use them but i think icould sway them with this!
julie recently posted..let’s talk about…online dating!
definitely underrated! more peas please! lets start a trend!
Happy anniversary!!!
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