A blog reader sent me the link to an article from the Austin newspaper about solar cooking.  Like I’ve said before, I know they’re not for everyone — especially those of you who live where there’s not enough sun, but if you have just an inkling of desire for one and  you live where it will work, I highly recommend them.  I’m still so thrilled with the one we got.

We’re grilling steak tonight so the potatoes just went into the solar oven and they’ll be wonderfully tender and moist by the time the steaks are ready for dinner.  They tell me it isn’t easy to burn anything in there and if I put them in plenty early, I don’t have to hope they’ll be done.  I washed them, then stuck them in a round Granite Ware cake pan and covered it with a Granite Ware pie pan.  It’s best to cover things to keep the steam from escaping and fogging up the glass, thus blocking the heat.  And, we’re not supposed to use foil because it’s reflective and it blocks the heat.  So, they’re in the cake pan unwrapped, and covered with the pie pan and for dinner, we’ll have yummy baked potatoes that required no fuel or costly energy to make . . just harnessed the sun’s rays for free.

I think a big part of why I love it is because it makes me feel like there’s something good coming from this miserable heat!

This morning I’ve cut okra, canned okra (10 pints), made bread, cleaned house (minimally . . just enough for Vince to notice that I did some housework), washed two loads of clothes, cleaned the globes on the four ceiling fans on the porch, got the potatoes in the solar oven and now . . I’m going to sew.