Hung Over Pan Roasted Chicken and Sweet Sausage

While shopping at whole foods this weekend, I noticed they had air chilled whole chicken for only 99 cents a lb and also sweet sausage for $2.99 a lb. I guess it was fate that I could make the Pan Roasted Chicken and Sweet Sausage recipe. In addition, I also had some light green bell peppers left over from my farm fresh delivery that I hadn't figured out how to use... so i figured i could use those instead of buying more red and yellow peppers.

Day one- I got the whole fryer chicken from whole foods, but this time I asked them to chop it up into 10 pieces for me. saved me about 15 minutes.  also, i think they did a better job than i would have done. i placed both the chicken and the sausage into the fridge. then I made the brine. the good news is that i have been cooking so many things out of ad hoc- that i didnt have to go out and buy anything to make the brine. yay! i also had replenished my salt source, so i was able to put exactly 5 oz of salt to get the right salty water mixture.   While that was cooling done, I decided to go to back to whole foods and do the wine tasting.
Fast forward a few hours, I came home with some new wines and a happy buzz. Saturday night was fun.  Before I went to sleep... I made sure I dumped the raw chicken into into its nice chilled brine bath. in 12 hours the bird would be ready.

Day Two, Sunday morning. Disaster. I woke up sooooo dehydrated that i really wanted to scrap the entire recipe. but i persevered and got the bird out of its bath and ready for its next phase " layout and air dry." After that was done, I started to roast the bell peppers. 30 minutes in the oven, and then into a bowl to cool.

Then i went out for brunch.

When i got home I was still feeling lazy and tired. Reading the recipe more coherently I realized that I also had to make a 1/2 cup of soffrito. wtf! so then I flip to the soffrito page and then realize its a homemade tomato sauce that takes about about 3 hours to make. oh my god. really? for a 1/2cup?!?!

So then i made a decision to deviate from the recipe. i blame it on my hang over. i feel actually really bad about it. but really, last week i made a home made tomato sauce with onions, tomatoes, and butter. so at least its similar to the soffrito recipe.
i peel and tear the bell peppers and then mix them into my own "soffrito" tomato sauce. let that stew for 30 mins.
Then i get some oil and start pan frying the chicken. about an hour later the chicken and sausages are done. i cut the sausages into 4 parts. i decided to wash the dutch oven i was using because the bottom was all black and looked gross.
Once semi clean i added my sauce, then chicken pieces and sausages pieces. i threw the dutch oven into the oven for about 10 minutes and viola- it was done!
The meal was delicious. the chicken was really juicy and the sausage was sweet. the only thing was that my bell peppers almost disintegrated into the sauce. i cant even really taste them. all that work... not sure if i had made the real soffrito, if it would have tasted better.
here is a zoomed pic (too bad the lighting sucks)