Biscuits and Spicy Sausage Gravy

I love biscuits and gravy while camping....it's a no effort breakfast.

I place my biscuits in an oiled or buttered tin pie pan.....



Place another oiled pie pan on top as a lid.....

Wrap the whole thing with foil.....

Place on a medium fire, flipping and turning for even cooking.

I brown my spicy breakfast sausage.....

Add flour and seasonings to the browned sausage........

Add milk and let the gravy slowly thicken and bubble.....

The biscuits take from 20 to 30 minutes......

A really easy, no effort breakfast while camping.....also pretty tasty! :)

I also use this method on my grill at home.

Cheesy Tatoes with Ribeyes, Mushrooms and Brats

Another favorite camp meal....

I slice some potatoes, onions and zucchini into a cast iron skillet, add garlic, kosher salt, cracked black pepper and butter...

You can leave out the zucchini...just use what veggies you like.

I like sauted mushroom, onions with a bit of garlic and butter to go with my steak...

I cover and let these cook over a low fire until the potatoes are tender...

When the potatoes are tender I add cheese...this time I added provolone and cheddar. Just use your favorites..

Cover until the cheese melts...

Grill some ribeyes and brats and you're set!

The grilled ribeyes and brats along with the cheesy potatoes, sauted mushrooms, fresh tomatoes and some cold cucs.

Onion Bread

I like making this bread for sandwiches, but it's really good just hot out of the oven and slathered with butter. :)

This is the basic bread recipe...

1 1/4 cups of warm water

1 pkg of yeast

2 TBs oil

2 tsp sugar

1 tsp salt

3 1/2 cups of flour (more if needed)

You can stop here and just make plain bread, It also makes great sandwiches.

For onion bread I add 1/2 tsp of onion powder and some minced onions to the liquid before adding the flour. Regular minced onions work fine. In this batch I used 1 tsp of dried onion flakes..

Knead for 5 minutes...

Cover and let it rise for 1 hour..

Place dough in baking pan, I push the dough to flatten a bit, Makes a nice big, flat loaf for a sandwich. If I'm not making a sandwich with the bread, I do not flatten.

Rub with a bit of oil or butter, top with onion flakes.

Let this rise for one hour...

I smoked this bread with some beef .

In an oven you would need to bake the bread at 375 degrees for about 30 to 35 minutes.

The smoker takes longer, around 45 minutes to an hour.

Makes a tasty sandwich bread!

Smoked Beef on Onion Bread

I mixed up some Dale's marinade, Q sauce, spicy brown mustard, pepper and beer.

I let the beef sit in this mixture for about 3 hours...


Made a loaf of onion bread and threw them onto the smoker with a bit of hickory..





After 4 hours of smoke, I foiled the beef with some beef broth. then continued to smoke for another 2 hours, until tender...


I split the loaf of bread open and started building the sandwich....


Added bacon....


Provolone cheese, onions and lettuce. Also topped the lid with some creamy horseradish sauce...













It was very tasty! :)

I will post the onion bread recipe.

Update on my Shrimp Herd

I have been meaning to post an update on my shrimp.
The shrimp are hatched in salt water and then introduced to fresh water for the "grow out" phase. I buy the juveniles that have already been introduced to fresh water and stock my small windmill pond in May....then harvest the shrimp in October.

I stock from 1,000 to 2,000 each spring. Here is a picture of one of this year's 60 day old juveniles....

This years batch......
To check their growth, I catch a few and measure them on the tailgate of my pickup.....

Some are more aggressive and grow at a faster rate.

My assistants like to help by making the shrimp jump....

My assistants....

The shrimp are coming along fine, looks like I will have a good crop again this year. :)

For anyone interested in more info, I have a post about the shrimp in my "favorites" section.