Hi Lewis, breakfast dishes like this are common throughout the US. Generally a family recipe. All you need to make this better is hot buttery biscuits. Hell Yes!
In other places in the U.S. This is known as a "skillet" breakfast where your eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, sausage, onions, peppers are cooked together and served in a bowl with cheese and or gravy is layered on top.
I make a mean breakfast casserole. When you have 4 or 5 people over it's perfect. Warms up beautifully the next days. Some diners call it "garbage". Because you can throw potatoes, eggs, vegetables, meats, anything you want and fry it up. You should try it - bet you'd love it.
That is bulk sausage. It's the mixture before it's stuffed into the casings. Pork meat, pork fat (lard), seasonings. It's browned similarly to hamburger meat (ground beef), or it can be formed into patties (similar to hamburger patties). The poblano is a pepper. When it's green, it's called a poblano chili. When it ripens to red, it is called an ancho chili. They are usually dried and ground to a powder. Here in the U.S., it is packaged and sold as "chili powder".
Kent uses an authentic late 1800's "Chuck wagon", used by range cooks who accompanied cowboys out on the range while working/herding cattle. Their sole job was to keep the cowboys fed and topped off with coffee... Kent replicates a lot of those range cook meals using many of the same tools. What he's cooking on is a woodfired cast iron stove. The sausage is minced pork. Here you can get it without the caseing, packaged like hamburger. Hashbrowns are shredded potatoes. What you get at McDonald's is barely hashbrowns... they're pressed and formed into that shape and deepfried... "Real" hashbrowns aren't smashed into near mush, and they're fried in a skillet or on a griddle with a little oil or even better, bacon or pork sausage grease.
Casseroles like this are all over the place here. Sometimes they get called a breakfast skillet, truck stop special, hash brown casserole and probably 20 other names for the same basic thing. This is overall a pretty easy thing to cook. I like to add a little hot sauce on mine. I like my food spicy.
We gotta see more of Cowboy Kent for you to react to!!😂you guys need to look up story time in the henhouse on his channel! This guy just is pure happiness and entertainment and a darn good cook too! He’s as real as they come:)
This is the first time you checked out Kent Rollins?? Wow. His wife works the camera, and they LOVE their dogs!! ❤ They're in Oklahoma and he's cooked for cowboys herding cattle for years.
Hi Lewis! My name is Pamela. My husband and I love your reactions. We live in Oklahoma, and so does Kent Rollins. Loved your reaction to his Breakfast Casserole dish. In answer to your question: yes, Breakfast Casserole IS a “thing” here. Not everyone has Big Bertha, though (his outside coal fired/wood fired oven) but you can bake this in your home oven. Bless you!😊
In the USA we have outside grills and we can cook outside. It’s pretty common, especially even for campers people camping We have huge RVs with stoves and ovens.
He's a great cook, and usually cooks over a fire. He even beat other cooks on a cooking contest show with famous chefs for judges. He has his own spices and several cookbooks.
In the simplest terms, a casserole is a dish, either sweet or savory, that consists of a mix of different ingredients cooked together in the oven, typically in a baking dish with raised edges. Green bean casserole, tuna casserole, and broccoli and cheese casserole are good examples of traditional casseroles.
Outdoor cooking breakfast food takes me back to my childhood camping in the rockies with family. Catching and skinning fish with a fry or homestyle potatoes, eggs and bacon. It just hits different.
The rockies sound fun. Down here we'd catch crawdeds(crayfish), fish, and frogs for the day. Clean em up and fry them. Then use the left overs/cut off bits to go fishing again.
I keep trying to explain to British reactors that in the US “sausage” without a number or article attached refers to a bulk substance. They never learn.
Cast iron is super cool to cook with!! You can make kinds of stuff over a fire and coals. We have a fire pit in the backyard we cook over frequently. We do this for two reasons,one it's fun to cook with a campfire and cast iron and two it allows you to try out recipes at home before you try em when your camping. It's kinda crazy how versatile a cast iron pot is. We make sweet cornbread,pie,stew and many other things and 9 times out of 10 the recipes come out great!!
You can find a skillet breakfast at a lot of places. Quite often it is served directly in a cast iron skillet. It’s great. Get a side of biscuits, drench them with butter and honey or jam. And, of course, free refills of your mug of coffee!
My boy, that's a wood cook stove. I have one myself. This morning while I was in my garage washing and blanching 20 pounds of mustard greens, I had a frying pan on my own wood cook stove and dumped four eggs straight from the chickens into the pan. Mmmm... MMM! That with toast. So good!
Growing up and going camping out west, this was what we made almost every morning, along with a big stack of pancakes with honey or maple syrup. Yum! And it does fill you up for most of the day.
Oh yea! I make this very thing with one exception: I add jalapeños. And we’ve always called it “Cowboy eggs or Western eggs “. Always topped with salsa. It’s bangin good. I try to make some for my coworkers every year (about this time), enough for about 30 people! They always look forward to it!
I have a cast iron lidded casserole very similar to one on video. Took it camping many times. It makes wonderful stew too, with dumplings baked on top of stew under lid.😋
"Breakfast casseroles" are popular for weekend breakfast/brunches. Outdoor "camp cooking" is more of a summer time tradition. Scale of one to two. That's why we love Kent Rollins.
My husband made “skillet breakfast.” Small diced potatoes. Onion, red and green bell pepper; (or just green depending on price). The night before he would soak raw bite size pieces of chicken breast in French salad dressing). Yes that’s right. Bear with me; he has had so many people ask for the recipe! Cook the potatoes with the onions, and peppers. He cooks the chicken separate. Oh yeah you can add sliced fresh button mushrooms. Add to potatoes. Cut tomato without the juicy seedy part. Add this. Scramble eggs. Cook bacon that has been chopped ( add to potatoes). Add scrambled eggs on top. Sprinkle cheese over eggs. Add lib (on off). After cheese is melted it’s done. Believe me it is delicious!!😋
Kent Rollins is an award winning chuck wagon cook, just like you would see in a western movie on a cattle drive. Big Bertha is his wood burning stove. All of his equipment packs up and moves from place to place. America has many recipes for breakfast casseroles.
A breakfast casserole is great. Lots of breakfast diners will offer something similar and they are great for camping because you just chunk everything into one pot. My parents used to cook a big scramble of eggs, ham, bacon, tomatoes, peppers, onions, and cheese when we went camping.
What he is using is breakfast sausage, not links but ground sausage. Yes, that is an outdoor woodfire stove. He also used a Poblano pepper, roasted it enough to scorch the skin black, then slipped it in a bag so the heat will loosen that burnt skin. LOL! Hash browns from McD's are hash brown PATTIES, regular hash browns are shredded potatoes. And yes, it is the Wild West, Mr. Rollins is in Oklahoma, near Texas, and he is a "chuck wagon" cook, like they had on the old cattle drives.
Oh yeah. We make something similar for Christmas morning. Both a Hashbrown Casserole...and a French Toast Casserole. Make them on Christmas Eve. Pop em in the oven on Christmas morning. When you're done with opening presents...it's time to eat! 😋😋😋
@OliviaFinley-p7w Ohhhh...it is. It's kind of like a bread 🍞 pudding but I like it better. There's lots of great recipes online. Just search for "French Toast Casserole" or "Christmas French Toast Casserole". America's Test Kitchen has a couple really good ones.
Oklahoman here, I live near him and yes it’s normal to cook outside during cattle runs. All ranches have a cattleman chef like him and they cook outside during cattle runs or controlled burns on the ranch so the ranchers don’t mess up the main house or they’re too far away from the main house on the ranch and need to be fed. That, and we camp a lot outdoors fishing. We are outdoors ppl on the prairie. The great prairies are the best for hunting, camping, and fishing. We make breakfast casseroles all the time, accept I normally top mine with homemade chili or beans.
In the US, we buy breakfast sausage in links, patties, and bulk pak. Bulk pak is used to make patties, or crumbled up for like ,sausage gravy. We have small { more conventional} links and medium size { hot dog size }, and large size to be sliced, cut, cubed, or however you want to use it.
Cowboy Ken Rollins is one of the few actual chuckwagon cooks left. He cooks out of his wagon to feed the cowboys working the ranch, tending the cattle. That sausage is what's called a sausage chub. It's just ground sausage. They make ground beef like that too. Most people make a breakfast casserole for Christmas morning. You put it together the night before and put it in the fridge to bake Christmas morning. It's very similar to this. It's really delicious.
Lewis my guy, that is called a 1 pound sausage CHUB. It is ground pork sausage wrapped in a 1 pound wrap. They come spiced and or flavored and regular. This heavenly thing you nation really needs.
I make my version on top of the stove in a cast iron skillet. I call it Country Breakfast Hash! I use diced potatoes, onions , peppers , sausage , bacon , eggs and cheese!
Casseroles are so popular in the US! We have casseroles for every occasion - even dessert casseroles. It's a great way to cook - everything in one pot. In Colorado we made this type of thing but then rolled it all up in a tortilla and called it a breakfast burrito. I was born and raised in Minnesota where we have a lot of Germans so we have really great sausage. We even put sausage in our Thanksgiving stuffing!
This gentleman is cooking as they did back on cattle drives in the older western days. He use to be a cook on cattle drives. That is his Chuck Wagon. The Chuck Wagon would hold all your supplies for cooking the meals for all the workers. If I remember correctly, he lives in Oklahoma. Many people still cook this way when camping and hunting, ( at least in Texas where I am).
It’s funny. My brother, who is an investment banker in Arizona, also owns a cowboy chuck wagon and does fire pit Dutch oven catering, appetizers, main dishes, and some sort of cobbler or cake for dessert, all with coals in a fire pit. While everything is cooking, he’ll break out his guitar and sing cowboy songs. He’s always, always booked.
I've made my own version of this a lot with frozen (thawed) hash browns in the oven. My neighbors love it when I make a large casserole. I watch Cowboy Kent all the time and he has great tex-mex videos too Lew!🌮You can cook dude..I believe in ya, and crack your eggs LIGHTLY on a flat surface like plate.
Breakfast sausage, frozen hash browns, shredded cheese, onions, and sometimes eggs. Sunday breakfast, with some Pillsbury orange rolls in the air fryer. Less than 15 minutes (and that includes cooking time) you got a good Sunday breakfast meal.
Also....that bulk sausage is the style of sausage used to make proper biscuits and gravy. You can pat the raw meat into patties and fry it in a skillet, which is what the gravy is made in once the sausage is done. I've been to GB several times and have never seen this type of sausage there. Sausage always seems to be stuffed into links......always in a casing.
I definitely do my own version of those at home as a quick weekend breakfast. I do it in a skillet on the stovetop. Bacon, onion, peppers, seasonings, hash browns cooked until cooked through and tender then I pour eggs over the top to and cook through. Top with cheese. I usually use regular green bell pepper but during summer here in Colorado I’ll sometimes use fresh green chilis. Serve with toast or grits
My personal favorite is known as a "skillet" breakfast. Eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, sausage, onions, green peppers are all chopped up and cooked together. Served in a bowl with some grated cheese on top. I also am a HUGE fan of Corned Beef Hash with a couple of fried eggs on top.
I make a holiday breakfast casserole for Christmas Breakfast, I always tell my kids they need all the energy to play with their gifts and Christmas dinner from it
-I call this kind of thing a "breakfast bake", but yes, I make something like this often - cooked in the oven. You can put all kinds of goodies in it - whatever you happen to have. Onions, peppers, cheese, potatoes, bacon, sausage, even healthy vegetables like spinach. I usually use 10-16 eggs, depending on how big a dish I'm making. -You guys don't know what loose pork sausage is. -That's a wood cookstove. It has an oven and a cooktop. I have my mom's antique wood-burning cookstove in my kitchen. He has his outside. -He's just making hash browns from scratch - not from the freezer. -Poblano is a pepper. -He's using a Dutch oven. A cast iron pot and a lid. Coals on the bottom and coals on top. It's a classic American way to cook over a campfire. -Haha. I knew he was going to put salsa on it. I always have salsa with my eggs.
Yep ... breakfast casseroles are common all over the US. The ingredients vary by region and there are as many recipes as there are grandmothers making them. This one looks pretty darn good to me; it's very southwestern AND he's added the salsa--which is a MUST in my opinion. There are Cajun versions, spicy versions. simple and complex versions -- lots to choose from. You need to get yourself over here and try a few, bro. Cheers from Texas!
Kent Rawlins is an actual cowboy trail cook. The stove is custom and yes, this is a breakfast casserole and variations are many. The hash browns are just potatoes shredded on, probably, a box grater. Most of us don't buy sausage in a casing, this is the same sausage just without the casing.
Yes! Cowboy Kent Rollins is an awesome example of the American cowboy and country folk. The food he cooks is very common in country kitchens. Dutch ovens are very popular where I grew up and many families plan camping trips around dutch oven meals.
Lewis If he mixed everything together it would be considered a scramble.He layered the food and kind of baked it because he had heat on top as well. It's considered a breakfast casserole.
I make something very similar to this and I call it "The Mess". The reason why I call it that is because it has all of these layers of flavor and ingredients and it does look like a mess however, it don't taste like it!😉 All I would add to this is some homemade bacon gravy, green onion and some flour tortillas. So good!😋
We make breakfast casseroles for Christmas morning and the just have snacks foods the rest of the day. A lot less stress and we all still break bread together!
I took a similar combination of ingredients a few weeks ago and put a generous scoop in tortillas to make breakfast burritos. They’re delicious, pretty healthy, and very filling
Make this a lot when I would camp good "stick to ribs" breakfast. They work as a one pot meal too at home but I must admit the dutch oven open fire the smoke it's just so much better. Only thing that made this better is a Dutch oven of fresh biscuits
2:35 Here in these United States, sausage comes in many forms. What Kent's using is bulk sausage meat, which is sold by the pound for use in anything that requires sausage crumbles. It's got all the seasonings and fat of a good breakfast banger, just no casing. You can also slice it with a good sharp knife and fry up some sausage patties, like my dad did back in the day.
I do a different breakfast casserole with bread on the bottom of a casserole dish, followed by som cooked sausage, then half a dozen eggs scrambled with a little milk, then top with shredded cheese. Then put it in the oven.
Campout style for Boyscouts or Girlscouts! I don't mess with a Dutch Oven/coals when I camp--its very tricky not to overcook or undercook. Normally, breakfast casseroles are made in an oven in the kitchen, in 11x13 inch glass or ceramic casserole dishes. (My M-I-L makes one for Christmas brunch.) Some you can put together the night before and cook in the morning. People usually make them for potlucks or gatherings for brunch. I hate eggs, but the gross flavor of them are drowned out by the rest of the ingredients--so yummy!!!!
Lewis, you said it looks like lasagna. Your kind of right. Instead of italian spices, red sauce, pasta, and mozzarella, it's what he put into the dutch oven, and he used cheedar or longhorn cheese. A CASSEROLE is a good way to say, throw everything, but the kitchen sink into the pot and cook it until....done. It's a one pot meal. Russet potatoes are what you may know as a baked potato, and fries are russets. Red or white potatoes are sweeter and less grainy. I love them. They make the best mashed potato's hands down. Eggs, the next time you need to crack open and egg, hold it in the middle in your hand over a bowl, not over the bowl you're going to add it to or over the pan. That way, you won't get shells in your food. If you do, don't worry, egg shells are calcium, and it won't harm you. Tap that egg on the side of the bowl, but dont squeeze the egg. SQUEEZE MAKES SQUIRT....keep your mind out of the gutter men! I was a sous chef in the estate of the billionaire, Walter H. Annenburg, who was the Ambassador to Great Britton in the 1960's. He had a winter home in my area.
Breakfast hash is popular in my family. I make mine with cubed ham and cubed potatoes. But there’s really no wrong way to make a one pot breakfast. It always comes out good. ❤
Love this video. Lew, of course they don’t have anything like this in the UK. It has too much flavor. Yes, I have had something similar. I call it breakfast skillet. Potatoes, eggs, onions, peppers, bacon, sausage in the frying pan. Then I top it with mild cheddar.
Hungry Man is a brand of crappy frozen dinners. That's why it's important not to call this that. That is patty sausage in a bulk tube. You normally cut it in disks before cooking.
on weekends we use to set up a big fire, get out your favorite adult beverage, sleep by the fire. In the morning set up a big cast iron fry pan over the coals, fry up a couple pounds of bacon the crack eggs into the fat and baste the eggs in fat. Yum
Cowboy Kent Rollins is on a ranch in the SW part of my state of Oklahoma close to Texas. I'm in the dead center, so he's probably a couple hours from me. He's well known in the chuckwagon cooking arena. That wagon he has that's all set up for cooking is a chuckwagon. Back in the day of the cattle trails (back in the cowboy days when cowboys drove their cattle across states to market), the chuckwagon was part of the outfit to feed the cowboys. The guy who mans the chuckwagon is called "Cookie" I make breakfast casserole in my oven at home, lol. There's different variations. He used hashbrowns (which in their purest form is just grated potatoes - the ones from McD's are formed into a shape like tater tots), some use tater tots. I use home fries (potatoes cut up small and fried). But I don't crack more eggs on top, lol.
This is type of breakfast we'd make in the boy scouts. Simple enough to cook in a dutch oven with just a camp fire and a pocket knife. We usually didn't do much for lunch just something small you could bring with you and then usually we'd do some type of stew or meat pie for dinner.
Hi Lewis, breakfast dishes like this are common throughout the US. Generally a family recipe. All you need to make this better is hot buttery biscuits. Hell Yes!
or corn bread
Living single, make on the weekend then portion out into easily reheated containers and you got fast good breakfast all week long.
In other places in the U.S. This is known as a "skillet" breakfast where your eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, sausage, onions, peppers are cooked together and served in a bowl with cheese and or gravy is layered on top.
"Skillet" I'd agree is the classic diner lingo for it.
I make it about once a week.
I like to used spiced fries.
Mmm mmm!!!
Absolutely love Cowboy Kent Rollins! Thanks for checking him out! I'm sure you'll love him (and his wife and dogs) too.
Can't beat a guy that puts the "R" in potato!!
Yes! Been watching him for a bit now and adore him! Like you said, his wife and dogs too. Lol
@@cln333me too:) he’s great!
"Uncle" Cowboy Kent Rollins...Fuiyoh!
I make a mean breakfast casserole. When you have 4 or 5 people over it's perfect. Warms up beautifully the next days. Some diners call it "garbage". Because you can throw potatoes, eggs, vegetables, meats, anything you want and fry it up. You should try it - bet you'd love it.
That is bulk sausage. It's the mixture before it's stuffed into the casings. Pork meat, pork fat (lard), seasonings. It's browned similarly to hamburger meat (ground beef), or it can be formed into patties (similar to hamburger patties).
The poblano is a pepper. When it's green, it's called a poblano chili. When it ripens to red, it is called an ancho chili. They are usually dried and ground to a powder. Here in the U.S., it is packaged and sold as "chili powder".
This is the way they cooked back in the 1750
Many ground (mince) meats shipped to store comes in thin plastic sleeves.
@googanmcboogie9307 yes... But the plastic packaging isn't the same as the sausage casings. Those are typically made of pig intestines.
@allibrown8960 I know. He made a comment on why the sausage looked like it did. From what I saw it looked like the plastic sleeve and not the casing.
From what I understand, an ancho chili refers solely to the dried poblano. Do I have that wrong?
Kent uses an authentic late 1800's "Chuck wagon", used by range cooks who accompanied cowboys out on the range while working/herding cattle. Their sole job was to keep the cowboys fed and topped off with coffee... Kent replicates a lot of those range cook meals using many of the same tools. What he's cooking on is a woodfired cast iron stove. The sausage is minced pork. Here you can get it without the caseing, packaged like hamburger. Hashbrowns are shredded potatoes. What you get at McDonald's is barely hashbrowns... they're pressed and formed into that shape and deepfried... "Real" hashbrowns aren't smashed into near mush, and they're fried in a skillet or on a griddle with a little oil or even better, bacon or pork sausage grease.
The reason he can’t call it “Hungry Man” is because that’s a copyrighted name of a brand of frozen dinner.
Lew when you make it over here you won't want to go back because of the food alone. 😂
There's something wholesome that I love about this man.
This is THE GUY, my guy!
I've been watching Kent Rollins for years.
Love this guy
Casseroles like this are all over the place here.
Sometimes they get called a breakfast skillet, truck stop special, hash brown casserole and probably 20 other names for the same basic thing.
This is overall a pretty easy thing to cook.
I like to add a little hot sauce on mine. I like my food spicy.
This may be the best video you’ve ever ever reacted to
We gotta see more of Cowboy Kent for you to react to!!😂you guys need to look up story time in the henhouse on his channel! This guy just is pure happiness and entertainment and a darn good cook too! He’s as real as they come:)
You finally took my advice and went on Kents channel. He cooks outdoors on the prairie for all the cowboys in Oklahoma and he makes awesome food !
He has watched multiple Kent videos before
This is the first time you checked out Kent Rollins?? Wow. His wife works the camera, and they LOVE their dogs!! ❤ They're in Oklahoma and he's cooked for cowboys herding cattle for years.
Rollins is a real trail cook for ranches and I learned to cook on a stove similar to Bertha
Hi Lewis! My name is Pamela. My husband and I love your reactions. We live in Oklahoma, and so does Kent Rollins. Loved your reaction to his Breakfast Casserole dish. In answer to your question: yes, Breakfast Casserole IS a “thing” here. Not everyone has Big Bertha, though (his outside coal fired/wood fired oven) but you can bake this in your home oven. Bless you!😊
YES! I LOVE BREAKFAST CASSEROLE! The heartiest thing ever to be invented for the morning❤
In the USA we have outside grills and we can cook outside. It’s pretty common, especially even for campers people camping We have huge RVs with stoves and ovens.
Been watching this guy for a couple years and love it.
You need to do more reaction videos on him. His food looks amazing. Simple old school cooking. I think you will enjoy them.
He's a great cook, and usually cooks over a fire. He even beat other cooks on a cooking contest show with famous chefs for judges. He has his own spices and several cookbooks.
I can’t wait to see cowboy Lew make a mountain man breakfast
Kent is so wholesome
Cowboy Kent is also an award-winning storyteller. A real national treasure. Great video!
In the simplest terms, a casserole is a dish, either sweet or savory, that consists of a mix of different ingredients cooked together in the oven, typically in a baking dish with raised edges. Green bean casserole, tuna casserole, and broccoli and cheese casserole are good examples of traditional casseroles.
Love Kent! He cracks me up😂
Outdoor cooking breakfast food takes me back to my childhood camping in the rockies with family. Catching and skinning fish with a fry or homestyle potatoes, eggs and bacon. It just hits different.
The rockies sound fun. Down here we'd catch crawdeds(crayfish), fish, and frogs for the day. Clean em up and fry them. Then use the left overs/cut off bits to go fishing again.
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That’s American breakfast sausage (e.g., Jimmy Dean’s). It comes in 1# bulk packages. Super yummy. I have some in my freezer, to use for Thanksgiving.
I keep trying to explain to British reactors that in the US “sausage” without a number or article attached refers to a bulk substance. They never learn.
Them aren't real hashbrows if you got them from McDonald's.
They're still a nice crispy golden brown which is a goal for some folks.
I still have a cheese, grater to great hashbrowns and cheese 😮 😂
Must be a snowflake, allegedly!
True. McDonald's hash browns are more like a large flatten tater tot but it's still pretty tasty.
Ain't that the truth!
Cast iron is super cool to cook with!!
You can make kinds of stuff over a fire and coals.
We have a fire pit in the backyard we cook over frequently.
We do this for two reasons,one it's fun to cook with a campfire and cast iron and two it allows you to try out recipes at home before you try em when your camping.
It's kinda crazy how versatile a cast iron pot is.
We make sweet cornbread,pie,stew and many other things and 9 times out of 10 the recipes come out great!!
It is a wood heater, that you can also cook on. He is saying to cook outside, so this is the best way to cook outside, instead of a camp fire.
A more correct description is he is cooking on a wood STOVE not a heater specifically although it can perform that as a secondary duty.
Yes that is ground sausage
I made a similar breakfast this week. Hashbrowns, onion, sausage, eggs and cheese along with spices.
Wow that looked so good! It was so amazing seeing how patient that dog was. He watched him cook the whole time. I wish I had a dog.
I am so happy to have grown up around men like this.
You can find a skillet breakfast at a lot of places. Quite often it is served directly in a cast iron skillet. It’s great. Get a side of biscuits, drench them with butter and honey or jam. And, of course, free refills of your mug of coffee!
My boy, that's a wood cook stove. I have one myself. This morning while I was in my garage washing and blanching 20 pounds of mustard greens, I had a frying pan on my own wood cook stove and dumped four eggs straight from the chickens into the pan. Mmmm... MMM! That with toast. So good!
Growing up and going camping out west, this was what we made almost every morning, along with a big stack of pancakes with honey or maple syrup. Yum! And it does fill you up for most of the day.
I have been to several dude ranches, and they cooked outside like this. It was all hearty and delicious.
I regularly make a simpler version on the stove
Oh yea! I make this very thing with one exception: I add jalapeños. And we’ve always called it “Cowboy eggs or Western eggs “. Always topped with salsa. It’s bangin good. I try to make some for my coworkers every year (about this time), enough for about 30 people! They always look forward to it!
Breakfast lasagna lmao😂 perfect description, never thought of it like that!!! To funny bro
I have a cast iron lidded casserole very similar to one on video. Took it camping many times. It makes wonderful stew too, with dumplings baked on top of stew under lid.😋
"Breakfast casseroles" are popular for weekend breakfast/brunches. Outdoor "camp cooking" is more of a summer time tradition.
Scale of one to two. That's why we love Kent Rollins.
My husband made “skillet breakfast.” Small diced potatoes. Onion, red and green bell pepper; (or just green depending on price). The night before he would soak raw bite size pieces of chicken breast in French salad dressing). Yes that’s right. Bear with me; he has had so many people ask for the recipe! Cook the potatoes with the onions, and peppers. He cooks the chicken separate. Oh yeah you can add sliced fresh button mushrooms. Add to potatoes. Cut tomato without the juicy seedy part. Add this. Scramble eggs. Cook bacon that has been chopped ( add to potatoes). Add scrambled eggs on top. Sprinkle cheese over eggs. Add lib (on off). After cheese is melted it’s done. Believe me it is delicious!!😋
We make this our go-to breakfast when camping, quick, easy, and very few dishes. 😊
Like Kent, I always prep my veggies at home to reduce the workload.
Kent Rollins is an award winning chuck wagon cook, just like you would see in a western movie on a cattle drive. Big Bertha is his wood burning stove. All of his equipment packs up and moves from place to place. America has many recipes for breakfast casseroles.
A breakfast casserole is great. Lots of breakfast diners will offer something similar and they are great for camping because you just chunk everything into one pot. My parents used to cook a big scramble of eggs, ham, bacon, tomatoes, peppers, onions, and cheese when we went camping.
What he is using is breakfast sausage, not links but ground sausage. Yes, that is an outdoor woodfire stove. He also used a Poblano pepper, roasted it enough to scorch the skin black, then slipped it in a bag so the heat will loosen that burnt skin. LOL! Hash browns from McD's are hash brown PATTIES, regular hash browns are shredded potatoes. And yes, it is the Wild West, Mr. Rollins is in Oklahoma, near Texas, and he is a "chuck wagon" cook, like they had on the old cattle drives.
We make breakfast casseroles all the time, all varieties. They're especially handy to feed a crowd or to take to the office for coworkers.
Oh yeah. We make something similar for Christmas morning. Both a Hashbrown Casserole...and a French Toast Casserole. Make them on Christmas Eve. Pop em in the oven on Christmas morning. When you're done with opening presents...it's time to eat! 😋😋😋
French toast casserole sounds so good 😍
@OliviaFinley-p7w Ohhhh...it is. It's kind of like a bread 🍞 pudding but I like it better. There's lots of great recipes online. Just search for "French Toast Casserole" or "Christmas French Toast Casserole". America's Test Kitchen has a couple really good ones.
Oklahoman here, I live near him and yes it’s normal to cook outside during cattle runs. All ranches have a cattleman chef like him and they cook outside during cattle runs or controlled burns on the ranch so the ranchers don’t mess up the main house or they’re too far away from the main house on the ranch and need to be fed. That, and we camp a lot outdoors fishing. We are outdoors ppl on the prairie. The great prairies are the best for hunting, camping, and fishing. We make breakfast casseroles all the time, accept I normally top mine with homemade chili or beans.
In the US, we buy breakfast sausage in links, patties, and bulk pak. Bulk pak is used to make patties, or crumbled up for like ,sausage gravy. We have small { more conventional} links and medium size { hot dog size }, and large size to be sliced, cut, cubed, or however you want to use it.
Cowboy Ken Rollins is one of the few actual chuckwagon cooks left. He cooks out of his wagon to feed the cowboys working the ranch, tending the cattle.
That sausage is what's called a sausage chub. It's just ground sausage. They make ground beef like that too.
Most people make a breakfast casserole for Christmas morning. You put it together the night before and put it in the fridge to bake Christmas morning. It's very similar to this. It's really delicious.
Lewis my guy, that is called a 1 pound sausage CHUB. It is ground pork sausage wrapped in a 1 pound wrap. They come spiced and or flavored and regular. This heavenly thing you nation really needs.
I make my version on top of the stove in a cast iron skillet. I call it Country Breakfast Hash!
I use diced potatoes, onions , peppers , sausage , bacon , eggs and cheese!
Casseroles are so popular in the US! We have casseroles for every occasion - even dessert casseroles. It's a great way to cook - everything in one pot. In Colorado we made this type of thing but then rolled it all up in a tortilla and called it a breakfast burrito.
I was born and raised in Minnesota where we have a lot of Germans so we have really great sausage. We even put sausage in our Thanksgiving stuffing!
This gentleman is cooking as they did back on cattle drives in the older western days. He use to be a cook on cattle drives. That is his Chuck Wagon. The Chuck Wagon would hold all your supplies for cooking the meals for all the workers. If I remember correctly, he lives in Oklahoma. Many people still cook this way when camping and hunting, ( at least in Texas where I am).
It’s funny. My brother, who is an investment banker in Arizona, also owns a cowboy chuck wagon and does fire pit Dutch oven catering, appetizers, main dishes, and some sort of cobbler or cake for dessert, all with coals in a fire pit. While everything is cooking, he’ll break out his guitar and sing cowboy songs.
He’s always, always booked.
I've made my own version of this a lot with frozen (thawed) hash browns in the oven. My neighbors love it when I make a large casserole. I watch Cowboy Kent all the time and he has great tex-mex videos too Lew!🌮You can cook dude..I believe in ya, and crack your eggs LIGHTLY on a flat surface like plate.
Breakfast sausage, frozen hash browns, shredded cheese, onions, and sometimes eggs. Sunday breakfast, with some Pillsbury orange rolls in the air fryer. Less than 15 minutes (and that includes cooking time) you got a good Sunday breakfast meal.
I am so happy you found Ken set back and enjoy happy. He will show you what we have here. Meny videos.
He's a real cowboy cook? You'll LOVE ALL HIS VIDEOS
Also....that bulk sausage is the style of sausage used to make proper biscuits and gravy. You can pat the raw meat into patties and fry it in a skillet, which is what the gravy is made in once the sausage is done. I've been to GB several times and have never seen this type of sausage there. Sausage always seems to be stuffed into links......always in a casing.
Breakfast casseroles are great for crowds and are standard for holiday breakfasts. Easy to prepare the night before and pop into oven in morning!
I definitely do my own version of those at home as a quick weekend breakfast. I do it in a skillet on the stovetop. Bacon, onion, peppers, seasonings, hash browns cooked until cooked through and tender then I pour eggs over the top to and cook through. Top with cheese. I usually use regular green bell pepper but during summer here in Colorado I’ll sometimes use fresh green chilis. Serve with toast or grits
Many families serve breakfast casseroles for holidays. Like Christmas morning, day after Thanksgiving, Easter, etc.
My personal favorite is known as a "skillet" breakfast. Eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, sausage, onions, green peppers are all chopped up and cooked together. Served in a bowl with some grated cheese on top. I also am a HUGE fan of Corned Beef Hash with a couple of fried eggs on top.
Every Christmas morning starts with a hash brown casserole at our house! With pancakes or French Toast. Good and hearty.
This was Sunday morning breakfast at grandmas house for me as a kid actually. Spending weekends with the grandparents were the best.
I make a holiday breakfast casserole for Christmas Breakfast, I always tell my kids they need all the energy to play with their gifts and Christmas dinner from it
-I call this kind of thing a "breakfast bake", but yes, I make something like this often - cooked in the oven. You can put all kinds of goodies in it - whatever you happen to have. Onions, peppers, cheese, potatoes, bacon, sausage, even healthy vegetables like spinach. I usually use 10-16 eggs, depending on how big a dish I'm making.
-You guys don't know what loose pork sausage is.
-That's a wood cookstove. It has an oven and a cooktop. I have my mom's antique wood-burning cookstove in my kitchen. He has his outside.
-He's just making hash browns from scratch - not from the freezer.
-Poblano is a pepper.
-He's using a Dutch oven. A cast iron pot and a lid. Coals on the bottom and coals on top. It's a classic American way to cook over a campfire.
-Haha. I knew he was going to put salsa on it. I always have salsa with my eggs.
Yep ... breakfast casseroles are common all over the US. The ingredients vary by region and there are as many recipes as there are grandmothers making them. This one looks pretty darn good to me; it's very southwestern AND he's added the salsa--which is a MUST in my opinion. There are Cajun versions, spicy versions. simple and complex versions -- lots to choose from. You need to get yourself over here and try a few, bro. Cheers from Texas!
The cast iron pot that he cooking in is called a “Dutch Oven”. He is cooking over a an outdoor stove and sometimes over an open campfire.
There are hundreds of variations of this dish. We make it all the time when camping. I use frozen hash brown potatoes. We call it Mountain Man Hash.
Kent Rawlins is an actual cowboy trail cook. The stove is custom and yes, this is a breakfast casserole and variations are many. The hash browns are just potatoes shredded on, probably, a box grater. Most of us don't buy sausage in a casing, this is the same sausage just without the casing.
Yes! Cowboy Kent Rollins is an awesome example of the American cowboy and country folk. The food he cooks is very common in country kitchens. Dutch ovens are very popular where I grew up and many families plan camping trips around dutch oven meals.
Love Cowboy Kent!!! Yes, breakfast casserole, skillet casserole, many variations, I have made more than I can count.
Yes, I've had breakfast casserole made at home. It makes a lot so it's usually when guests are staying overnight.
LOVE Cowboy Kent!!! He is/was a cook for cowboys out on the range. I’ve made this recipe before and it is incredible, but I didn’t have his salsa.
I make a Breakfast casserole every Christmas morning. Make it up the night before, and let it cook while we open presents. It’s tradition.
Lewis If he mixed everything together it would be considered a scramble.He layered the food and kind of baked it because he had heat on top as well. It's considered a breakfast casserole.
Yup! Lived in Tombstone and enjoyed this dish often! ❤
I make something very similar to this and I call it "The Mess".
The reason why I call it that is because it has all of these layers of flavor and ingredients and it does look like a mess however, it don't taste like it!😉
All I would add to this is some homemade bacon gravy, green onion and some flour tortillas. So good!😋
We make breakfast casseroles for Christmas morning and the just have snacks foods the rest of the day. A lot less stress and we all still break bread together!
I took a similar combination of ingredients a few weeks ago and put a generous scoop in tortillas to make breakfast burritos. They’re delicious, pretty healthy, and very filling
Make this a lot when I would camp good "stick to ribs" breakfast. They work as a one pot meal too at home but I must admit the dutch oven open fire the smoke it's just so much better. Only thing that made this better is a Dutch oven of fresh biscuits
2:35 Here in these United States, sausage comes in many forms. What Kent's using is bulk sausage meat, which is sold by the pound for use in anything that requires sausage crumbles. It's got all the seasonings and fat of a good breakfast banger, just no casing. You can also slice it with a good sharp knife and fry up some sausage patties, like my dad did back in the day.
I do a different breakfast casserole with bread on the bottom of a casserole dish, followed by som cooked sausage, then half a dozen eggs scrambled with a little milk, then top with shredded cheese. Then put it in the oven.
Campout style for Boyscouts or Girlscouts! I don't mess with a Dutch Oven/coals when I camp--its very tricky not to overcook or undercook. Normally, breakfast casseroles are made in an oven in the kitchen, in 11x13 inch glass or ceramic casserole dishes. (My M-I-L makes one for Christmas brunch.) Some you can put together the night before and cook in the morning. People usually make them for potlucks or gatherings for brunch. I hate eggs, but the gross flavor of them are drowned out by the rest of the ingredients--so yummy!!!!
Lewis, you said it looks like lasagna. Your kind of right. Instead of italian spices, red sauce, pasta, and mozzarella, it's what he put into the dutch oven, and he used cheedar or longhorn cheese.
A CASSEROLE is a good way to say, throw everything, but the kitchen sink into the pot and cook it until....done. It's a one pot meal.
Russet potatoes are what you may know as a baked potato, and fries are russets. Red or white potatoes are sweeter and less grainy. I love them. They make the best mashed potato's hands down.
Eggs, the next time you need to crack open and egg, hold it in the middle in your hand over a bowl, not over the bowl you're going to add it to or over the pan. That way, you won't get shells in your food. If you do, don't worry, egg shells are calcium, and it won't harm you. Tap that egg on the side of the bowl, but dont squeeze the egg. SQUEEZE MAKES SQUIRT....keep your mind out of the gutter men!
I was a sous chef in the estate of the billionaire, Walter H. Annenburg, who was the Ambassador to Great Britton in the 1960's. He had a winter home in my area.
Breakfast hash is popular in my family. I make mine with cubed ham and cubed potatoes. But there’s really no wrong way to make a one pot breakfast. It always comes out good. ❤
We do what I call leftover Sundays, basically anything still good in the fridge is fair game!😂
Love this video. Lew, of course they don’t have anything like this in the UK. It has too much flavor. Yes, I have had something similar. I call it breakfast skillet. Potatoes, eggs, onions, peppers, bacon, sausage in the frying pan. Then I top it with mild cheddar.
Hungry Man is a brand of crappy frozen dinners. That's why it's important not to call this that.
That is patty sausage in a bulk tube. You normally cut it in disks before cooking.
on weekends we use to set up a big fire, get out your favorite adult beverage, sleep by the fire. In the morning set up a big cast iron fry pan over the coals, fry up a couple pounds of bacon the crack eggs into the fat and baste the eggs in fat. Yum
Cowboy Kent Rollins is on a ranch in the SW part of my state of Oklahoma close to Texas. I'm in the dead center, so he's probably a couple hours from me. He's well known in the chuckwagon cooking arena. That wagon he has that's all set up for cooking is a chuckwagon. Back in the day of the cattle trails (back in the cowboy days when cowboys drove their cattle across states to market), the chuckwagon was part of the outfit to feed the cowboys. The guy who mans the chuckwagon is called "Cookie"
I make breakfast casserole in my oven at home, lol. There's different variations. He used hashbrowns (which in their purest form is just grated potatoes - the ones from McD's are formed into a shape like tater tots), some use tater tots. I use home fries (potatoes cut up small and fried). But I don't crack more eggs on top, lol.
This is type of breakfast we'd make in the boy scouts. Simple enough to cook in a dutch oven with just a camp fire and a pocket knife. We usually didn't do much for lunch just something small you could bring with you and then usually we'd do some type of stew or meat pie for dinner.
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"Why Is The Build-Up To Cooking This Making Me Hungry?, Is That Normal?"
It absolutely is normal, Lewis.
It does the same thing to me too