I LOVE Mountain Man type breakfasts, they are easy, lots of calories and can be eaten anytime, not just for breakfast. A Mountain Man Breakfast is, usually, a recipe that involves several base items that can all be cooked either together or at very close intervals. The recipe here is the basic MMB I use; from this you will be able to add all kinds of vegetables, or spices.
The main ingredients are:
Sausage
Bacon (optional but recommended)
Potatoes
Eggs
Cheese
Stuffing or bread crumbs
Quantities will be tailored to your taste and how many you are feeding.
This recipe below is for a typical three person meal when one of those people is a 13 year old boy (so really for four people).
1 pound of sausage
1 pound of bacon
3 medium to large potatoes
6 eggs
half a bag (or one carton) of stuffing mix (bread only no spices)
Dutch Oven Style
In an 8 to 10 quart DO quarter the potatoes and cover to 2 inches with water. Cover the bottom of the DO with charcoal to get a good boil an cook the potatoes until you can cut them easily with a spoon, firm but now mushy.
while the potatoes are cooking use the lid, inverted on a lid stand, to cook the sausage and bacon, cook everything to well done.
When the potatoes are ready pour off the water until you have a little less than two cups left and then add the stuffing (or bread crumbs). Mix it all up until the potatoes are mashed and the water has been absorbed by the stuffing mix.
Then add the sausage and bacon you cooked up earlier along with the eggs and, again, mix it all together very well.
add the grated cheese to the top of the mixture to your liking, about a half inch thick for me, I like cheese!
Everything should be in the DO now and we are ready to cook for the last time. Shoot for a temperature of about 250-275 degrees.
SO, 10-12 briquettes on the bottom and 14 or so on the top. Cook until the eggs are done. If, when you are checking it, the cheese is starting to turn brown/black, remove some heat from the top and add it to the bottom. This will happen if the food is close to the top or, obviously, if there is too much heat.
If you would like to add onions, peppers, mushrooms or things like that Cook them up with your sausage and bacon. Just remember, everything you add together for the final cook should already be cooked, except for the eggs.
Total cook time is about 1 to 1.5 hours.
Kitchen Style
Nothing changes for this except I use different pots and skillets. I boil the potatoes in a 4 quart sauce pan, and cook everything else up in a large, 12 inch, cast iron skillet.
I then combine everything in the skillet just like I did in the DO, put the lid on the skillet and place it in the oven at 300 degrees. Cook until the eggs are done.
The great thing about the MMB is that it works as a stand alone meal, or with tortillas like breakfast tacos. It also keeps well throughout the day; as it is easy to make A LOT it makes a great meal for breakfast right through to lunch.
But the best part is how easy it is to tailor to your specific tastes. You can even add the veggies and stuff your wife likes to one half of the mix and leave the other half unmolested; kinda like you can on a pizza.
Enjoy this recipe and think of our frontiersmen, trappers and hunters as they braved a new world and blazed trails for us to follow; this is the food that fueled them on those great adventures!
Fresh out of the kitchen oven!
The main ingredients are:
Sausage
Bacon (optional but recommended)
Potatoes
Eggs
Cheese
Stuffing or bread crumbs
Quantities will be tailored to your taste and how many you are feeding.
This recipe below is for a typical three person meal when one of those people is a 13 year old boy (so really for four people).
1 pound of sausage
1 pound of bacon
3 medium to large potatoes
6 eggs
half a bag (or one carton) of stuffing mix (bread only no spices)
Dutch Oven Style
In an 8 to 10 quart DO quarter the potatoes and cover to 2 inches with water. Cover the bottom of the DO with charcoal to get a good boil an cook the potatoes until you can cut them easily with a spoon, firm but now mushy.
while the potatoes are cooking use the lid, inverted on a lid stand, to cook the sausage and bacon, cook everything to well done.
When the potatoes are ready pour off the water until you have a little less than two cups left and then add the stuffing (or bread crumbs). Mix it all up until the potatoes are mashed and the water has been absorbed by the stuffing mix.
Then add the sausage and bacon you cooked up earlier along with the eggs and, again, mix it all together very well.
add the grated cheese to the top of the mixture to your liking, about a half inch thick for me, I like cheese!
Everything should be in the DO now and we are ready to cook for the last time. Shoot for a temperature of about 250-275 degrees.
SO, 10-12 briquettes on the bottom and 14 or so on the top. Cook until the eggs are done. If, when you are checking it, the cheese is starting to turn brown/black, remove some heat from the top and add it to the bottom. This will happen if the food is close to the top or, obviously, if there is too much heat.
If you would like to add onions, peppers, mushrooms or things like that Cook them up with your sausage and bacon. Just remember, everything you add together for the final cook should already be cooked, except for the eggs.
Total cook time is about 1 to 1.5 hours.
Kitchen Style
Nothing changes for this except I use different pots and skillets. I boil the potatoes in a 4 quart sauce pan, and cook everything else up in a large, 12 inch, cast iron skillet.
I then combine everything in the skillet just like I did in the DO, put the lid on the skillet and place it in the oven at 300 degrees. Cook until the eggs are done.
The great thing about the MMB is that it works as a stand alone meal, or with tortillas like breakfast tacos. It also keeps well throughout the day; as it is easy to make A LOT it makes a great meal for breakfast right through to lunch.
But the best part is how easy it is to tailor to your specific tastes. You can even add the veggies and stuff your wife likes to one half of the mix and leave the other half unmolested; kinda like you can on a pizza.
Enjoy this recipe and think of our frontiersmen, trappers and hunters as they braved a new world and blazed trails for us to follow; this is the food that fueled them on those great adventures!
Fresh out of the kitchen oven!
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