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Alternatively, open a can of baked beans. 
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Would have taken 5 minutes in an air fryer.
Escoffier is turning in his grave.
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I have just made a coq au vin pie withour old cockerel.
He needed 2 hours in the pressure cooker to be edible.
He was on his last warning but he severely injured one of his ladies and has paid the price.
The hen is still alive and we hope she will pull through.
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So do I, but will you eat her too, eventually? I couldnât possibly eat anyone I knew.
Our friend Gill has chickens and ducks, some have names some do not, Guess what happens to the nameless ones. 
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Tasty.
Not if she dies.
We only eat those we kill.
That was a bit of a coq-up on his part.
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While we are in this area, and just to demonstrate my, previous, ignorance, I have a cookery programme on R4 at the moment and somebody asked âwhat is a sweetbreadâ and, without thinking, and blotting out the reply, I said bollocks.
Then this woman kept on about what she does with them, made my eyes water, so I had to Google.
All these years I have been under such a misapprehension. 
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Robert, have you tried baked beans with grilled bacon on the top. Itâs absolutely scrummy 
Along this vein
A man goes into a famous restaurant in Madrid, close to the bull ring and orders Criadillas because someone told him it was their signature dish. Sure enough they were delicious.
A while later he goes back, orders the same thing and they we even more delicious.
Impressed, he tells some of his friends and they all go to the restaurant and order Criadillas: This time they were awful. shrivelled up little pieces of meat with an appalling taste.
He calls the manager and complains.
" Señor" says the manager âthe bull does not always loseâ
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Large catering tin of baked beans unopened on an outside open fire; stand back.
You will only do it once.
A simple tomato sauce, pasta, basil leaves and freshly grated parmesan.
tagliatelle, with ribbon cut courgette, cream and lemon zest.
A risotto: lardon and Borlotti beans, pea prawn and mint, simple leek risotto with a piece of pan fried cod served on top. There are many possibilities
Iâm just wondering if anyone, other than British people, like tinned baked beans?
Despite being an American invention baked beans never were as poplar anywhere as much as UK, where it seems there are still more baked beans consumed than in all the rest of the world put together. Even designated an essential protein for wartime rations.
Must be childhood nostalgia. My husband loves them. I tried them once but find them too sugary and squidgy. Like mushy peas! Another British delicacy for the dentally challenged.
The French version is not as sweet.
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I loathe tinned baked beans, abominable things, but love other sorts of baked beans, dhal etc. I make hoisin cha siu baked black beans and love them. I think it is the juice of the tinned ones which just makes me want to throw up.
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On the subject of breakfast (one very close to my heart) - a small group of us booked to stay some nights in the snappily named village of Lorp-Sentaraille in the foothills of the Pyrenees. At the time of booking, we were asked what we would like for breakfast. I (jokingly) replied âa full Englishâ.
When breakfast was served the owner had cooked us some Toulouse sausages, which look a bit like English sausages but have none of the required taste and texture. She had also found some âbaconâ in her local supermarket which was just some extremely thinly sliced cured pork that would have been chucked out of any self-respecting transport cafĂ©. She had, however managed to provide some baked beans. According to her internet research baked beans were an essential part of any English breakfast but not available in any of her shops. To her immense credit and with the help of Google, she found a recipe. She made baked beans from scratch. They were superb and put anything produced by Heinz to shame.
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Sounds like a rather dangerous way of ensuring that everyone gets some, whether they would like it or not !