Farmer’s Breakfast Skillet

Farmer’s Breakfast Skillet

by Anna
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This Farmer’s Breakfast Skillet is one of those recipes that sits in your family cookbook and waits for you to try it again and realize how much you really liked it that time that you made it.  It’s been so long that I don’t even know where the original recipe came from.

Once I started frying the onion, potatoes, and green pepper in the bacon drippings–in my favorite copper skillet— I could smell why I picked the recipe in the first place. You can’t go wrong with breakfast foods, because the ingredients are pretty typical–eggs, bacon, potatoes, cheese, onion, green pepper.  Yes, all those good things combine to make a great comfort food that can be served for just about any meal.  We had it recently for supper.

Is it easy to prepare?  Well, yes it is, and fairly quick if you remember that you have to peel/cook/cube those spuds.  That’s what takes the most time.  Oh, the waiting.  Full disclosure: I didn’t get to my errands quickly enough to have supper on the table as quickly as I could have.  But no worries, everyone was patient.  The grandbabies weren’t too sure about what was on their plates–one doesn’t like eggs and the other doesn’t like potatoes.  Imagine that.

I decided at the last minute to serve it with cinnamon toast–mainly because my toaster isn’t big enough for my Pepperidge Farm Farmhouse Oatmeal Bread slices–so I thought I would just toast them under the broiler, and that morphed into cinnamon toast.  Pretty good idea, actually, because it was a good bribe for the kids to try the Farmer’s Breakfast Skillet.

So try this with your family–grandkids or not–and try out some of our other breakfast-y foods like this overnight oatmeal recipe!

Farmer's Breakfast Skiller

A winning combo of eggs, bacon, potatoes, cheese, onions, and green bell pepper that works for any meal.
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Ingredients
  • 6 slices bacon, cut in 2-inch pieces
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
  • 1/2 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
  • 1 small green pepper, cut in 1-inch strips
  • 3 large potatoes, cooked, peeled, & cubed
  • 6 eggs
  • salt and pepper
Directions
Step 1
Fry bacon in a medium skillet. Set bacon aside to drain on paper towel, reserving 3 tablespoons of drippings in skillet.
Step 2
Add green pepper, onion, and potatoes to skillet and cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes or until potatoes are browned.
Step 3
Sprinkle cheese over potatoes and stir until cheese melts.
Step 4
Break eggs into skillet and cook over low heat, stirring gently until done.
Step 5
Season to taste with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with the bacon and serve hot.

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