Brad Makes Campfire Breakfast

You know a guy cut his thumb off doing this.

Not to go jinxing myself.

(axe smacking)

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Oh, Vinny, sleeping beauty,

Ha ha,

welcome to the party babe.

Don't worry,

I got breakfast going.

You know, I spoil you rotten Vinny,

We got our Percolator coffee.

Pre-ground coffee,

brought it with us 'cause we're smart

and, yeah got my little set up again,

my little three burner, you know.

A two burner, but three zone.

If you want to learn more about that,

little three part fire that I invented,

there's another video

you can check it out right here.

Yeah.

Hi.

Rendering down a little bacon here Vinny,

and then we'll add,

I got some sweet potatoes

and baby Yukon gold potatoes.

Speaking of which Vinny,

before you joined I got a little Boo Boo.

Bud, I cut one of my fingers cutting them potatoes.

It's all set up, it's clean.

You know a good tip,

bring a First Aid kit.

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Hey guys, I'm Brad Leone.

And even I bleed, that's why you've got to bring

a First Aid kit into the woods with you.

No dude, no!

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So look Vinny, I prepped this all up

for us already.

Add some onions, sweat them out.

I like that man.

It makes me happy.

Looks like our coffee's getting there,

nice I'm dying for a cup of coffee Vinn.

I need a cup of coffee and a nice shower.

Maybe we'll find a little river.

These were the guys that got me,

ah, but boy was it worth it.

Look, it looks like my finger tip.

As you can see, my fat is dripping down that way.

So I'm gonna add the potatoes down there

and let them pick up some color in that saucy bacon fat.

We're just gonna let those cook for a little bit.

We sliced them about, you know,

what an eighth inch thick.

So they won't take too, too long to cook.

You know, let me fiddle around with the fire,

see if we can get a little more heat.

Straight from the charcoal factory.

Hot baby.

I'm sweating.

Maybe we just shoulda went to a bagel store.

You know next time we come out here Vinny,

We're gonna get a nice piece of half inch steel.

Will tack load that right on.

And then we can have an extender.

We can go right in there

Like a pizza oven.

You live and you learn,

that's the beauty about this stuff.

Every time you come out,

you learn a little bit,

something you can tweak.

The first time I came out and cooked in the woods,

didn't look like this.

So we've got this nice little sausage wheel.

Pork sausage.

Alright, nice.

We're gonna put this in the old cast iron.

I'm gonna add a little Earl,

just to get things nice.

A little spin though, get that oil mixed up.

We'll let that brown up.

It's got a little cheese in the sausage.

Vinny, you're looking at your phone?

The guy's texting.

Oh Vinny, coffee's ready bud.

Alright, we'll have a cup of Joe

while we're waiting.

Vinny, you're getting the blue one.

Not bad Vinny.

Stumptown baby.

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Ah, Stumptown coffee, (bell clanging)

Here's one of them things,

when ya work hard for something,

it's always a little better right.

If you're out in the woods all day cooking,

and you come back home and take a shower,

it's like oh, it was such a good shower.

You earned it Vinny.

Put that over the heat a little bit.

Yeah, you don't need this cast iron,

see you babe.

Yeah, we got a lot of cast irons here,

what's it to you?

As you can see this isn't exactly

you know the ultra weight backpacking gear.

But that's not what we're doing.

You know we're out here just cooking food

in the woods.

Picking up some color,

potatoes are probably just about done.

I like the sweet potatoes man,

underrated.

I don't know if they really are,

I think everyone likes sweet potatoes.

Gadzoots Vinny,

I went and cut off my seasoning finger,

so, we're gonna go lefty,

Ah, make it rain seasoning.

Put a little on the sausage too.

Season everything, season you Vinny.

Oh, look what I found from

our last little visit Vinny?

A little crustacean friends.

He liked it os much, he stuck around eh.

You know we come back here a few more times

we'll start to decorate the place a little bit.

People stumble across back here,

I want to make it look like someone's living here.

Let's get weird man.

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Hey baby.

Make sure you get a great shot of my ass.

Look, I gotta a little green garlic.

Start sweating that out in there.

There's a decent amount

of bacon fat in there.

That's a good aft barrier for the eggs.

It won't be all nasty, sticky I don't think.

That don't take long,

everyone knows how to cook an egg.

Ah, you'd be surprised.

Little dimples okay.

Like a baked egg thing.

You can find recipes for baked eggs

on http://www.bonappetit.com.

And then we'll heat up our English muffins.

This is turning into a feast.

This is sweet man.

I'm happy right here.

Yeah, let's get a little fuego

under that snausage.

Great word fuego.

I think that means fire, right.

Sounds like song, what was that dude?

Da, da da da da, Pit Bull or something, fuego.

(laughing)

So getting a little bored up here in the woods,

you start talking about things you know.

Hanging out with freaking Vinny all day.

I'll talk to a tree.

No offense Vinny, I love ya.

We've got these stone fruits,

apricots, peaches, plums.

Just halved them, pitted 'em, and do

a little drizzle, drizzle with some Ollie.

Some tossy, toss huh.

That looks good right there.

Cal it a dish, ha ha.

Now look, a little pinch of salt in there.

We'll see how this goes.

We'll work small in batches in case

this starts going a little wild on us.

Who!

English muffins, some people call them Engle muffins.

I think in England they just call them muffins.

That might not be true.

You know usually when you toast an English muffin,

I get it,

you got all those little nooks and crannies.

I like just treating it like a little bun.

I might not even cut this bad boy open.

I think I'm gonna just rip it

and just tah, tah, tah, you know.

We'll put these in right over here

and just let 'em get a little toasty.

Now these, I just want to put a little color on 'em,

The natural sugars in 'em

just carmalize a little,

I'm only gonna cook one side.

And then right when we eat them,

I got some real nice Greek yogurt.

We'll do just a little smear

of the Greek yogurt in the pit hole

and we'll call that breakfast desert.

Let me crack the eggs Vinny.

We're just gonna make a little dimple.

(bell ringing)

You want them in the air,

but not crazy in the air.

I'll check our peaches.

Whew!

We added nothing,

it's got its own sugars.

It's just a nice little, I mean fruit's delicious.

Oh, that smells so good.

We'll keep this right over here in the cool spot.

Just let that, the residual heat from 'em

will just kinda make 'em a little nice.

I didn't want to cook them to mush,

I want 'em to hold their shape.

And we can just bit 'em,

let 'em cool down a little.

Let's see how it goes,

just a little bit.

This'll just add

a little creamy tanginess to it,

maybe just a little sprinkle of salt again.

Wish I had more of that crushed red pepper flake.

And this stuff is nice

'cause it just bleeds into it.

It's not super spicy but it has big flavor.

Alright let's go check on the eggs.

That's not looking too bad.

That's just about done.

Add a little parsley to the party.

A little black pepper.

A little custom spice blend.

When I go camping, and cooking and stuff,

I just like to make

little custom blends of spices,

that you can use on several things that are very versatile.

'Cause you can't go bringing

everything, I mean we tried.

Boy that looks like breakfast to me huh.

I'll make myself a little plate.

A little scoopy scoop.

Hum, I've paid for worse.

I've been saying that a lot lately.

Not bad little plate for the middle of the woods huh?

Got our fruit,

we got our little crusty, cheesy sausage.

And we got our nice little egg hash,

look the yolk is still runny

just like what this is all about is

you gotta up your camping game.

Anyone can just crack an egg

and make a couple strips

of bacon or something,

but we got a whole meal here man.

Try a fruit, look at that.

That looks good huh.

Vinny, zoom in.

Make sure you get my nice finger. (magical music)

A little mixed sweet potato

regular potato, green garlic hashy thing.

I got nothing to say.

It's delicious.

Bon Appetit!

I don't even make breakfast this good at home.

(laughing)

You know it was one of those dreams,

it was awesome

but I wake up now and I don't even remember

what it was.

It was something to do, I

was in this car,

in like this country,

but I don't know

where it was,

it wasn't where,

it wasn't the United States.

Like random people you know pop up and stuff,

it was like what are you doing here?

Why are you here too?

I don't even talk to you.

Fancy cars, there was a castle.

I don't have a castle.

That's why I love dreams you know.

Worry about my dreams,

You stay out of my head Vin.

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Ha, ha. (beeping)