Solar Baked Bacon
Bacon! How many ways can it be cooked? Let’s see. You can fry it in a pan, broil it in the broiler, bake it in the oven, and cook it in the microwave. And of course, it can be “solared” in a solar oven. Place strips of bacon in a pan (or on a wire … Read more
Classic Sausage Cheese Balls
Last week, I made Homemade Spicy Country Sausage. I used some of the sausage to make these great Sausage Cheese Balls. With a solar oven, these tasty treats can easily be baked at a tail gate party, camping, or the kid’s soccer game. Sausage Cheese Balls 3 cups Bisquick 1 lb bulk pork sausage 4 … Read more
Spicy Homemade Country Sausage
Homemade country sausage is easy to make and can be made just the way you like it.
Baked Ham in the Solar oven
There probably isn’t anything easier to do than bake a ham. After all, it is already cooked. You only have to heat it up. But who wants to turn on the oven in the summertime to bake a ham? The solar oven is the perfect way to heat up that ham. Baked Ham in the … Read more
Hawaiian Pork
Hawaiian Pork Today was a beautiful day, clear and sunny with a high temperature of 70 degrees. The GSO reached an internal temperature of 300 degrees. But the Sport, sitting right next to it, reached a temperature of 325 degrees (with reflectors). Today I made a very simple Hawaiian Pork in the GSO. 11/2 lbs … Read more
Working Man’s Dinner
I remember, as a child, my mother cooked a lot of pinto beans to keep us all fed. She would fry up a big skillet of potatoes, bake some cornbread, and sometimes — just sometimes — she would add a ham bone to the beans. That ham bone would cook until the ham — what … Read more
Seasoned Pork Sirloin
Today I decided to cook some pork. Rod bought some really nice pork sirloin chops (boneless). I cut about one and a half pounds into cubes, seasoned them with a packaged seasoning, added just the tiniest bit of water, and put them into the solar oven. The oven had been pre-heating for about 20 minutes … Read more
Pork Chops
Yesterday I cooked pork chops in the solar oven. The pork was actually some kind of boneless tenderloin, cut into pork chop like slices. I put them into pieces, put them into the pot and added a can of chopped stewed tomatoes, a package of onion soup mix, a tablespoon of dried minced onion, a … Read more
