Dinner tonight

I think that we are all in serious need of comfort food right now --- not sure exactly why that is, but I am sensing a slight ultrasensitivity in everyone in the house today --- and the weather is miserable, and the corn in the store looked awful, so corn isn't going to cut it tonight.
I bought a chicken (organic, raised in the mountains of NC north of here, I believe, so it is not quite local, but it is a flavourful brand...), carrots, potatoes and red bell peppers. We have onions, bratwurst and bacon in the fridge, and bread dough ready to bake on the counter. I think that I'm going to stuff the chicken with lemon and garlic, wrap it in a layer of bacon, and throw sausages in the pan round it, and roast it at a high-ish temperature, with potatoes parboiled then roasted in the juices, roasted red peppers and vichy-style carrots as colour and vegetables.
The carrots I slice coarsely, and then boil in lightly salted water until the carrots are cooked and the water is almost gone: then add a little sugar and some butter and cook until the rest of the water is gone, to give a lovely buttery caramel flavour to the carrots.

Can you guess that I haven't had lunch, and hence I'm hungry?


Yours, salivating in advance!
N.