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?

Gill's Special.......

When my mother is using up odds and ends in the pantry and fridge, she always calls it a "Chris's Special."  On Thursday I wanted to use up some odds and ends, so put together a Gill's Special.

This is what I used:

I had bought the hot dogs for 99 cents before Christmas.  Hot dogs are a treat for us as we rarely eat them.  I couldn't live off hot dogs, but one every now and then makes a nice change.  The potatoes were from before Christmas and were sprouting and going soft.  Hubby got some British baked beans as a gift at Christmas.  He thoroughly enjoys beans on toast.  I chopped up the veggies.  Chopped up the hot dogs and popped everything into the slow cooker for the day.

Doesn't it look good?  I did add a cup or so of frozen corn later in the afternoon.

The steam was rising from the slow cooker when taking this photo.

We will get multiple meals and I may even pop some in the freezer for a later date.

Do you do (insert your name here) specials?