The second day I decided to make an old family favorite recipe — Chicken and Rice.  Everything I read cautioned not to add too much water.  So I cut back on the water for this recipe.  Big mistake!  Rice needs water to rehydrate.  Fortunately there was enough to successfully cook everything, but it was a little drier than we like.  Still, I counted it as a success.  And was getting more and more excited about the possibilities of cooking in a solar oven.  I kept thinking that if we had had one of these when I was growing up and doing a lot of camping with my family, that cooking  and feeding our large crew would have been much easier for my mother.