Solar Food Pics - Delicious Healthy Solar Cooked Meals

These are our solar food pics. We will be adding more pictures as we prepare and cook more meals in the solar oven.

Solar cooked food is going to stimulate your taste buds. The reason is that the food cooks slowly and naturally. Think of cooking in a slow cooker, like a crock pot, but instead of adding water, the moisture in the food makes its own juices.

The first solar food pics (pictures) are of the preparation of the vegetables (we call them veggies). We used zucchini, zucchini squash, potatoes, a sweet onion and pre-cut mushrooms and baby carrots. The spices we used included a small amount of curry powder, italian seasonings, small amount of garlic powder and a pinch of Mesquite.

We're meat eaters, so we also cut up a large organic chicken breast.

We think you'll like the fact that you will only find pictures of food that we have prepared ourselves, or friends have prepared and sent us the pics.

This is a package of three "Natural" (whatever that means) Tyson skinless, boneless, chicken breasts. I chose to only cut up one of these for the meal. The other two wouldn't fit in the pot with all the veggies.

Ahhh...the three zucchini squashateers, about to begin their journey as people food.

The zucchini squash, sliced and ready to go into a bag where we will mix all the veggies together and add the spices. We were only able to use two of these guys. They were very large. The same with the regular zucchini. These solar food pics are making me drool already!

You can see why I had to take the equivalent of one squash out of the mixing bag. When this bag is full of veggies, the pot will be full when you pour them in with the chicken (and there's not that much chicken!).

I hope the color of these solar food pics comes out well, because this food is VERY tempting when it's right in front of you. Let's put it this way, I was full when I finished preparing the veggies. Ha ha.

Here are all of the veggies and spices mixed up in a produce bag. This will make enough (with or without the chicken) to feed a good portion to four to six people. You might even have a little bit of leftovers.

The next step is to do a 'sun dance'. This meal was being prepared for the Upstate SC (South Carolina) Solar Cooking meetup (dot com) group that we started over a month ago. It was to be our first solar cookout but got rained out. "No sunny, no cooky."

Here is our GSO (Global Sun Oven), set up on a card table on the back deck.

The back deck is the ideal place for the solar cooker because we have many trees in our back yard to protect us from the wind. Of course, many trees means limited sunlight during the winter months (when we really like to cook with the solar oven the most.)

Here's another picture of the two pots. Previous to this, I had not used a pot with a glass cover, so this will be my first time. (I'm only going to use one pot, the Pampered Chef pot with the glass lid. Two other things I like about this pot over the other is the nice handles and the fact that you can see the food while it's cooking. Solar food pics are a lot easier to take when you can see the food.)

This close up picture of our Global Sun Oven is a little disorienting at first because of the highly polished reflectors.

While it's not absolutely necessary to preheat the solar oven, it's a good idea. It will help speed up the process of starting to get the food cooking faster.

And anyway, what's it going to cost you to preheat it? Nothing! Well, okay. 20 minutes that you can use to prepare the food.

Think of your solar oven as an "off grid" appliance. No gas. No electricity. Until "they" find a way to charge you for sunlight, you're in the clear (pun intended. Ha ha.).

This pic was taken of the solar cooker at one hour and forty five minutes. 325 degrees, folks!

This is what you're looking for!

The food is done. The contents of the pot cannot contain the moisture anymore and the steam now escapes and condenses on the glass of the solar cooker.

By the way, this condensed water is 'distilled' and is safe to drink (assuming the glass was clean). The strange thing is that this water will taste like the food!

It has been two hours since we started cooking. Time to take it out.

A healthy, nutritious meal cooked with the sun!

We hope you enjoyed these solar food pics. Sometimes (many times) the cook and the photographer are the same person (Put down the food, pick up the camera, put down the camera, pick up the food,etc.). By the way, do you have any solar food pics you'd like to send us? We'd like to get a collection of solar food pics for others to see.