Sweet Potatoes with Apples
Sweet potatoes and apples is reminiscent of old fashioned Candied Yams, but with a modern twist.
Cheesy Potatoes
I came across this easy recipe years and years ago. I was looking for a great recipe to take to church potluck dinners. This very quickly became a favorite – both at home and at the potluck. Cheesy Potatoes 2 lb pkg frozen shredded hash browns, partly thawed 2 10 3/4 oz cans cheddar cheese … Read more
Stack Cooking in the GSO
The main drawback to the GSO, in my opinion, is that the interior is small and will only hold one pan. However, I have heard that many cooks get around this problem by stack cooking. Of course, that assumes that you have pots that will stack. I have two 3-quart granite ware pots that … Read more
Solar oven vs. Electric Oven
When we leave for work in the mornings, it is still dark. And we don’t get home until dinnertime — making it very hard to cook in a solar oven. But this morning, we thought how nice it would be to come home to baked sweet potatoes for supper. Since a sweet potato will not … Read more
Baked Sweet Potatoes
My husband loves sweet potatoes. He loves them french-fried. He loves them candied for the holidays. But mostly, he loves them baked. So recently, I decided to try a make his favorite in the solar oven. I washed the sweet potatoes and put them into the pot. They cooked in the solar oven in the … Read more
Camp Supper
I pulled out an old, but simple, camping recipe that I used to make. I don’t know if it came from the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts or some other camping cookbook. Everything was placed on a square of aluminum foil, folded up into a neat little package, and placed on the campfire coals, … Read more
The Great Baked Potato Experiment
I belong to several solar cooking message boards. Recently one of the boards had a debate going about how to cook potatoes in the solar oven. Some people were trying to bake potatoes, and not having much luck. Others said it could be done, but the potatoes came out more steamed than baked. I decided … Read more
Breakfast
For Sunday breakfast, we made Cinnamon Rolls and a Breakfast casserole. The cinnamon rolls were frozen, so we let them thaw and rise over night. Rod prepared the egg, sausage, and hash brown casserole early in the morning and had it cooking when I got up. What a wonderful treat.
Pot Roast & Pinto Beans
Tonight’s dinner was pot roast, cooked with potatoes and onions and pinto beans. I soaked the beans overnight and put them on to cook at 11:00 am. The oven was already hot, because I had just taken out the peanut butter cookies. The roast and potatoes went in at 1:00 pm. At 4:00 pm, we … Read more
