12 slices bacon
1 pound pork sausage (your choice:
plain, sage, hot, or mixture)
2 tablespoons flour
3 cups milk
salt and pepper to taste
1 1/2 teaspoons Kitchen Bouquet (for color)
2 1/4 cups Bisquick (or other biscuit mix)[!!!]
2/3 cup water
2 large baking potatoes, baked, chilled
1 medium onion, sliced very thin
1 tablespoon bacon drippings (grease)
1 tablespoon butter
8 eggs
Salt and pepper to taste

The night before, or the week before if you wish, bake up a couple of potatoes. No big deal. Scrub the skin, throw them in the oven at 400 F
for about an hour.
Let cool, then refrigerate until ready to use. You might want to open a
beer for yourself, remembering that beer is no longer just a breakfast
drink. Fry up the bacon. Set aside and keep warm. Reserve the bacon
grease in the pan. If there is an awful lot, you might want to put some
in a Mason jar for another meal.
In a small skillet, heat one tablespoon of the bacon grease and a table-
spoon of butter. Add the thinly sliced onion and fry until nicely crisp
and brown. Set aside. Heat oven to 450 degrees F.
In heavy skillet over medium-high heat, brown sausage. Remove sausage
and keep warm. Add flour. Stir into drippings and cook for 4-5 minutes,
letting the flour brown. Add the milk all at once and stir constantly until
thickened. Add Kitchen Bouquet to color (real gravy should not look
anemic, right?). Reduce heat and stir occasionally. Season with salt and
pepper to taste. Return sausage to skillet and keep warm.
Slice up your baked potatoes. Do not bother to peel, just slice them up
and toss into the pan in which you fried the bacon. Salt and pepper to
taste. Brown nicely over medium-high heat.
Meanwhile, make up biscuits. [You know, you could actually make your
OWN biscuits. It isn't all that difficult!] Mix Bisquick and water with a
fork. Do not overwork. Roll or pat out to about 3/4 inch thickness and
cut with a biscuit cutter (or use a small tin can, from which you have cut
both ends and drained the contents). Place on baking sheet. Bake at 450
degrees for 8-10 minutes, until nicely browned.
And, just to keep yourself busy and out of trouble, fry up some eggs.
Your choice as to how you do them - and remember, this is YOUR
kitchen, so do them as you damned well please. [That's the Major for
you! Some folks called him Major BadAss. Not me though. Nosiree...]
To plate this extravaganza: Split two biscuits, place on plate. Ladle off
a goodly glob of sausage and gravy. Lay a couple-three strips of bacon
over. Slide in a generous portion of the fried potatoes. Strew a goodly
measure of the fried onions over the potatoes. Finish off with a couple
of eggs at the end of the plate. And do not forget the salt and pepper
on the table. [And some Tabasco! Maybe a bowl of pico de gallo...]
This is, after all, SERIOUS food, not health food...
Refresh the coffee.
Absorb.
Al may be a tad eccentric, but he does understand serious breakfast.
The Oro Chico Cafe, Oro Grande, New Mexico. Highly recommended.
Prices moderate. Locale unique in this Universe."

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To our dismay, we recently discovered (via Google, what else?)
that the Oro Chico Cafe in Oro Grande NM is no more. Sad.