Breakfast In the Blind

Griffin Williford

Griffin Williford

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In an attempt to start checking off my pre-season "Punch List", I had added a note about cooking something in the boat this upcoming weekend for me and my Mentors son that I am taking.

My thoughts were some form of skillet, or something that a majority of the ingredients can be prepped and combined prior to the trip.

Thinking about cooking hash browns, mixed with peppers, mushrooms, onions and sausage and storing them in one container. Pre-scrambling maybe 8 or so eggs and storing them in a Nalgene or some other form of seal able bottle to avoid the mess of cracking them in the boat.

Finally cooking all together and consuming.

Does anyone have any easy go-to meals that they usually carry pre-mixed to the blind?

-Thanks
 
Breakfast Burritos are a popular choice in my hunting group. Make them up ahead of time, wrap in foil, freeze, heat using a skillet and camping stove, serve and eat.
Simple, neat, and delicious.
Of course one of my hunting buddies is a real foodie and he's shown up with fresh corn & bean salsa, and smoked Turkey legs. We take the big boat when we hunt with Billy.
 
Biscuits and gravy. Premake the sausage gravy and the biscuits. Reheat the gravy in the boat and when hot break up the biscuits into the gravy and chow down. I've also made the gravy in advance and put it in a wide mouth thermos bottle. Don't make the mistake of thinking a narrow mouth will work - it won't. As the gravy cools it gets thicker and won't come out .......very frustrating.
 
All the above, plus one of my favorites- hot ham and cheese. I prefer butter the bread, stack it all butter to butter, bate bread to bare bread in a square container. Bring along the cheeze of choice, yellow or white american, swiss, or even pepper jack. Heat the skillet, put a slice of bread - butter down, add ham then cheeses and the other slice of bread. Heat until toasted and the cheeze is oozing. Makes my mouth water...

A nice thing about these types of sandwiches is the ease of eating. No fork or plate required. We usually cut them in half, wrap in a napkin and pass along.

Canned soups are good too, unless you spill it all over the bottom of the boat. Soup AND sandwich, mmmm!

Jon
 
canned ravioli

or powdered donuts and brats/sausages...

pizza is always a good one

and right after christmas I usually have prime rib sammiches
 
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Its usually mini-chocolate bars, snack cakes, duck jerky, Vienna sausage, sardines and crackers for us. And a couple of thermos' full of hot chocolate.

But I too have thought about breaking out the stove this year. Breakfast burrito sound good, maybe pre-cook the sausage, onions & mushrooms and just add to the eggs when cooking them.
Maybe grilled cheese with sausage.
 
I imagine if you sequenced the bread placement properly you could go ahead assemble the sandwiches back in to the bread bag, then just remove them individually as desired??

A sandwich my girlfriend and I have started making recently that may be right up your alley Jon is a Signature Grilled Cheese from a small restaurant in Charleston:

Bread - Cinnamon Swirl or Cinnamon Raisin Swirl
Cheese - Munster
Fillings - Bacon & a smear of Dijon Mustard

...... Oh good god is it good........
 
Sausage Balls (old Bisquick recipe). Wrap portions in foil and throw them on a heater for 20 minutes or so.
You can make large batches and cook them at home. Wrap in foil and freeze until needed.
 
Sausage Balls (old Bisquick recipe). Wrap portions in foil and throw them on a heater for 20 minutes or so.
You can make large batches and cook them at home. Wrap in foil and freeze until needed.
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Sounds like a good way to use up some venison sausage in the blind. Going to have to try these in the coming weeks.
 
Griffin et al~

I guess I'm from the Stick-in-the-Mud School like Tod....

For many years, I brought just a quart of Tropicana Golden Grapefruit Juice in the boat. I will always remember one January hunt when a friend's young son noticed the ice in the bottle that was rapidly turning it into a slurry. I guess he had never seen anything other than coffee or hot chocolate in a duckboat: "Dad! Dad! Look what he's drinking!!!!"

On the other hand, I am in the middle of building a "kitchen" - just a folding shelf and drawer for the propane cook stove - for Cassiopeia's pilothouse. I anticipate a rich and varied menu - reliably high in cholesterol and calories.

All the best,

SJS
 
I'm in the same boat Steve and Tod, except I usually only have a thermos of coffee in the boat. A granola bar would be a real treat.

I've always thought you could keep it real simple by putting pancake batter in a cleaned out ketchup bottle (for ease of pouring onto the skillet, obviously) and bringing some maple syrup. Let me know how it works if you try it.

Mike
 
I generally speaking have always stuck with a few drinks, and a pack or two of Nabs (Orange Lance Peanut Butter Crackers) myself.

I thought that this weekend would be a good chance in some of the down time to test the waters of cooking in the boat though.

The "kitchen" in the pilothouse sounds like a great alternative to the stout winds in a layout boat! I foresee many "chefs" vs "hunters" when the weather is unfavorable.

Best of luck with the project!
 
Hunted with a buddy years ago. He had a big floater with a stove. Breakfast, lunch was norm. Great days were bay scallops fresh out of the rig. Good ol days.
 
We do one hunt a year, typically on a cold December on saltwater, where we pack a Coleman stove and do sausage, eggs, cheese and some veggies as either an omelet, breakfast burritos, or breakfast sandwiches. Other than that it's nuts or granola bars on the hunt, and a stop for a breakfast sandwich on the way home from the boat launch.

A couple of the Casco Bay islands have nice B+B's. Think they'd mind if we stopped off in our waders for a meal?
 
Griffin et al~

I guess I'm from the Stick-in-the-Mud School like Tod....

For many years, I brought just a quart of Tropicana Golden Grapefruit Juice in the boat. I will always remember one January hunt when a friend's young son noticed the ice in the bottle that was rapidly turning it into a slurry.

SJS
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You know it is a good duck hunting day when you open your coke at 8 am and it turns to slush when you pop the top.

Big coffee drinker myself, drink it all day until I can transition to an adult beverage, BUT I have never taken coffee to hunt. Never made a cup before a hunt.
 
Tod,

If you don't have a coffee maker with a timer, buy one. I set mine the night before to start brewing a pot about 10 minutes before I wake up. I put my open thermos and travel mug right next to the coffee maker. By the time I'm dressed and ready to head out, its a simple matter of pouring.

Mike
 
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