Sometimes I think I've developed a solar cooking sixth sense. I woke up this morning with a craving for fresh baked bread and immediately thought to myself, "The days are getting shorter; I'd better get started." I got the dough going in my bread machine right away,...
Pasta with rapini is a common southern Italian dish. I adapted this recipe for the Sun Oven from one I found on epicurious.com where the pasta was cooked along with the vegetables risotto style. I don't often make pasta in the Sun Oven (with the exception of lasagna...
Everyone's heard of sourdough bread soup bowls. For a low calorie edible soup bowl try acorn squash. Just cut the tops off, scoop out the seeds, cut a thin slice off the bottom to make a stable base, brush with oil, sprinkle with salt, arrange on a baking tray along...
Probably the biggest misconception I had about solar cooking in my pre-Sun Oven days was that all meals would have to be carefully planned in advance. It's true that when you have a Sun Oven you'll need to start thinking about what you're going to have for dinner much...
You can never have too many chicken recipes. This one is a nice change of pace and is made with ingredients that are common in most kitchens. It goes great with rice or couscous. Solar Sweet-and-Sour Chicken Thighs Ingredients 6 chicken thighs with skin and bone,...
These savory muffins are the perfect accompaniment to yesterday's frittata. They're also good with soups, salads, or cheese. Use a high quality extra-virgin olive oil for the best flavor. Solar Baked Olive Oil Muffins Ingredients 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup...
This is my favorite frittata recipe. I cut it out of Gourmet Magazine (or maybe it was Bon Appetit) a long time ago and I'm glad I did since it's nowhere to be found on their website. Getting all the ingredients can be a bit of a challenge but the flavors go together...
Baking is still a bit of a mystery to me. Recipes that I expect to be tricky, like the chiffon cake I made a few days ago, often come out picture perfect while others that seem easy on paper wind up being much more challenging. Crackers, it turns out, are tricky to...
Mark likes his eggs on toast (I'm more of a "toast on the side so I can dip it into the yolk" kind of gal) so I decided to go ahead and bake the egg and toast together. I think it makes a nicer presentation. The eggs meld with the toast instead of sliding off like...
The Sun Oven and backyard cookouts are a match made in heaven. Here are some links to a few of my favorite crowd-pleaser recipes. And don't forget the corn on the cob. Just give it a good wash and put in in the cooking chamber unhusked next to, or on top of, whatever...
