The solar no stir polenta from my previous post turned out to be an extremely convenient food to have in the fridge. The other day when I was pressed for time I sliced it up and put together this quick vegetarian meal. You could use pretty much any combination of...
This pasta sauce is a recipe that I cut out from an Italian magazine almost thirty years ago. It goes very well with whole wheat or white pasta. Part of the fun of making it is buying the radicchio. The supermarket cashiers almost never know what it is. Sometimes I...
Assemble this breakfast casserole the night before then pop it in the GSO first thing in the morning for a nice solar baked weekend breakfast. Set the GSO out before going to bed to catch the first morning rays. Sun Oven Baked French Toast Ingredients 2/3 cup packed...
For your next dinner and a movie night whip up a batch of this traditional Roman soup and rent "I Soliti Ignoti" (English title "Big Deal on Madonna Street"). It's an classic Italian caper movie that features a group of hapless thieves who, after a disastrous attempt...
Among the many good things about hanging out with other solar cooks are all the tricks you'll pick up. At the solar potluck last weekend a GSO user named Emily had a a scrumptious looking pan of scalloped potatoes bubbling away. I could see them because the pan was in...
Soup is good; solar soup is even better. This is a simple recipe adapted for the GSO from one I found on epicurious.com. In can easily be personalized with your own choice of spices. Sun Oven Butternut Squash and Apple Soup Ingredients 2 tablespoons butter 1 medium...
Polenta is a northern Italian peasant food that has made its way onto the menus of many a high-end restaurant and now has found its way into my Sun OVen. It's also one of the few foods that my husband does not like. Because of this, and due to the fact that its...
Starting a meal with a bowl of broth based soup is a trick I learned from Weight Watchers. If I skip my evening soup I find myself more likely to get hungry before bedtime, and that never leads to anything good. Homemade stock makes it as flavorful as it is filling....
Most muffin recipes yield twelve muffins. Most six cup muffin pans won't fit side by side on the GSO's leveling tray. So what's a solar cook to do? Stack 'em. I coat six canning rings with cooking spray before placing them over the cups of one pan, then I stack the...
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the main reason I cook in my GSO is flavor. Sure, I originally purchased it for all the usual reasons, save money, save energy, etc. but even if there were a tax on sunlight, I'd still use it because it just makes food taste...
