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Pork, mashed potatoes, mushrooms baked in a casserole.
 

The best easy meal for dinner is breakfast. Bake the sausages in a hot oven. Make vast quantities of orange juice and scrambled eggs. Grate cheese and saute mushrooms for people who like them with eggs. Add raisin bread toast made under the broiler, and everyone is happy.
 

i make breakfast pizza often. you just buy the pizza shell, sprinkle cheese and bacon bits, beat 3 or 4 eggs and pour over the pizza shell. bake until the the whole mixture sets. then just slice and serve with some fresh fruit on the side.
 

Consider a picnic from a fancy grocery. I live in a city where Kroger's the fancy place, but yesterday at 4:30 I was standing outside the nearest Wild Oats. I snagged a huge, beautiful cucumber, some pitted Kalamata olives, some not-crumbled feta cheese, a fresh loaf of sour dough bread, a half-pound of chicken almond salad, and a bar of lovely dark chocolate. at home, I add some spinach and some baby carrots and some balsamic vinagrette, and we all ate happy. (The brown-eyed children actually only ate the cucumber, but they had other stuff in the fridge.) In the price range with a box of Lee's chicken (another good solution to lack of will to cook)!
 

Dutch Babies

This is an oven-baked pancake that puffs up in funny shapes and has a crust like a popover. One, made in a cast iron griddle, will feed two. Trust me.

3 eggs
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup Wondra* Flour
1/4 cup butter

Directions:
Heat oven to 425°F. Put butter in a 9-inch cast iron frying pan or a pie pan with tall sides place in oven. Blend eggs in blender for 1 minute. Add milk; gradually add flour and blend for 30 seconds. (*If you use Wondra, it will dissolve into the milk and eggs and you can do this whole operation with a whisk.) Pour into pan of melted butter. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Squeeze fresh lemon juice over the whole thing and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
 

Endub's panini, tuna with mayo and cheese on rye bread, toasted on a Foreman grill. Easy cooking is even better when someone else is the easy cook.
 

i made an oven puff pancake years ago when my niece and nephew were visiting. (we only lived 5 miles away then) instead of being impressed, niece laura promptly informed my sister "aunt terry made us eat pie for breakfast." i can only imagine if i had given them a dutch baby.:):)
 

Murdered Pot Roast:

Put a 3 pound roast, two pounds of potatoes in chunks, half a pound of coined carrots (thick), a quarter pound of sliced mushrooms, three cups water with three cubes beef boullion, two tablespoons minced garlic, and the spices of your choice in a crockpot on law, planning to cook for 12 hours. Actually cook for 18. The results look like an ashen mess, but taste great. You can serve the roast with a salad fork.