Thursday, October 23, 2025

Question: What meal do you enjoy but hate preparing?

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A full English breakfast is something we enjoy every now and then, but not for breakfast, but for a main meal at night.

I hate making it though because of the grease.  I like my bacon nice and crispy so it has be to overcooked within an inch of it's life, so you know that's all the fat cooked out of it.  That fat is then to dispose of.  Fried eggs, need to be fired in oil.  Then the sausages give off grease, so all in all a greasy mess.

I did make a version of this the other evening, but I cooked the bacon and breakfast sausages in the oven on parchment lined sheets.  With parchment paper covering the top of them also, so the fat didn't go everywhere.  We also had baked beans and scrambled eggs as well.  It was tasty and made a nice change.

If you order this in the UK, you may also get, mushrooms, black pudding, toast, tomatoes, and if in Scotland haggis.

So what meal do you enjoy but hate preparing?

3 comments:

Belinda said...

Your English breakfast sounds delicious. I know what you mean about all the grease. I think making lasagne is a lot of work, but we don’t have it very often. I’m glad I enjoy working in the kitchen. My mother never did enjoy it, but my grandmother did. I think maybe that skips a generation? My daughter does not enjoy kitchen work or cooking at all.

My Piece of Earth said...

I very seldom have an English breakfast because of all the grease, my mother would also add fried bread when she prepared it.
I don't like making cabbage rolls, so only made them a few times. Being on my own, I now find cooking all meals a chore, even worse now that I cannot smell and my taste buds are not as they should be. (All the result of my accident las year).

Life of a Doctor's Wife said...

Yessss bacon is so delicious and such a pain to prepare! I love stir fries and salads, but -- because I prefer to make my own sauces and dressings and chop my own veggies -- they require a ton of prep work. Sometimes I'm up for the work and sometimes I'm not.

Question: What meal do you enjoy but hate preparing?

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