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Solar Cook Books

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[edit] Cooking With Sunshine

The Complete Guide to Solar Cuisine with 150 Easy Sun-Cooked Recipes

by Lorraine Anderson and Rick Palkovic

Cooking With Sunshine provides everything you need to get cooking, including:

  • Clear explanations of how solar cooking works and its benefits over traditional methods
  • Instructions for building your own solar cooker using inexpensive, easy-to-find materials—and information on where to buy a ready-made solar cooker
  • A selection of fun and super-easy recipes to get you started
  • A wide variety of recipes for main dishes, accompaniments, and desserts for both vegetarian and omnivorous diets
  • Creative menu ideas for special diets, tastes, and occasions

“...I have been cooking with the sun for years, and Cooking with Sunshine takes away the mystery and brings the deliciousness and adventure of solar cooking to the reader.” — Artist and solar cooking advocate Mary Frank

Paperback, 224 pages. See Cooking With Sunshine web page for more information.


[edit] The Sunny Side of Cooking

Solar cooking and other ecologically friendly cooking methods for the 21st century

by Lisa Rayner

The Sunny Side of Cooking is a practical, easy-to-follow guide for both beginning and experienced solar cooks. Includes:

  • How to choose the right solar cooker for you based on your climate and lifestyle needs
  • How different types of solar cookers work
  • How to use a solar cooker for baking, steaming, simmering, sauteing, toasting, broiling, and more
  • More than 100 vegetarian solar recipes and cooking tips (animal free)
  • The only solar cookbook that explains in detail how to solar cook tofu, seitan and tempeh
  • How to bake crepes, flatbreads and tortillas, pancakes, polenta, muffins, yeast breads and pastries
  • How to adapt slow cooker (Crockpot) recipes to a solar cooker
  • How to adapt your favorite recipes to a solar cooker
  • How to can foods in a solar cooker using USDA safe canning guidelines
  • How to create a year-round sustainable cooking system by combining the use of solar cookers, fireless cookers, pressure cookers, and biomass-fueled stoves and earth ovens

“Beautifully detailed and informative. I highly recommend it both for beginners and experienced solar cooks who may pick up some useful variations and additional uses. Her recipes make one’s mouth water just reading them!”
— Solar cooking pioneer Barbara Kerr

Copyright (c) 2007
128 pages. 8 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches. Color cover, black and white illustrations, comb binding.
$14.95 + $3 shipping and handling. Wholesale rates available.

Contact Lisa(at)LisaRayner.com

Order online at LisaRayner.com or send check or money order to:

Lifeweaver LLC
P.O. Box 22324
Flagstaff, AZ 86002

[edit] Heaven's Flame

by Joseph Radabaugh

This excellent 144-page book offers a great, comprehensive introduction to the world of solar cooking, including a large question and answer section, a long chapter detailing who's who, and detailed plans for a very high-performance cardboard cooker and detailed cooking instructions. You can see an example of this cooker here.

You can read an excerpt from this book here.

Order this book from Amazon.com (30% of purchase price donated to Solar Cookers International)







[edit] Solar Cooking: A Primer/Cookbook

by Harriet Kofalk

A 96-page book of natural vegetarian recipes. Contains 24 pages of background including construction plans and cooking tips. Barbara Kerr, the inventor of the cardboard solar box cooker writes of the book, "The combination of the enhanced flavor of solar-cooked foods and Harriet's lovely, carefully balanced recipes is a total win!"

Order this book from Amazon.com (30% of purchase price donated to Solar Cookers International)




[edit] Cooking with the Sun: How to Build and Use Solar Cookers

by Beth and Dan Halacy

A 115-page book with plans for building a plywood multi-reflector box cooker, a cardboard single-reflector box cooker, and a cardboard parabolic cooker. Contains 62 pages of American and international recipes.

Morning Sun Press
P.O. Box 413
Lafayette, California 94549
USA

Order this book from Amazon.com (30% of purchase price donated to Solar Cookers International)




[edit] The Expanding World of Solar Box Cookers

by Barbara Prosser Kerr

Available online here. To order a printed copy, which includes photos and diagrams send $15 US to this address:

Kerr-Cole Solar Box Cookers PO Box 576 Taylor, AZ 85939

Or email kerrcole@frontiernet.net


[edit] Making the Most of Sunshine

A Handbook of Solar Energy for the Common Man

by S. Narayanaswami

Table of Contents
An Interview with the author

Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd
576, Masjid Road, Jangpura, New Delhi-110 014
Telephone: 4314605, 4315313, Fax: 91-11-431087
orders@vikas.gobookshopping.com
http://www.gobookshopping.com

South Asia Book, P.O.Box 502, Columbia MO 65205
sabooks@juno.com, Contact: Jerry Barrier.
Phone: 573-474-0116, Fax: 573-474-8124.

[edit] Cookbooks

[edit] Eleanor's Solar Cookbook

by Eleanor Shimeall

A 93-page book containing more traditional American dishes. Includes a section on canning in a solar box cooker.

Available for $10 + $2/shipping from:

Cemese Publishers
P.O. Box 1022
Borrego Springs, CA 92004

Tel: +1 (209) 478-6318






[edit] The Morning Hill Solar Cookery Book

by Jennifer Barker

The Morning Hill Solar Cookery Book is your source for recipes, cooking techniques, and tips of all kinds for solar and conventional kitchen cookery. No matter what kind of cooker you have, you will be able to use the recipes in this book to produce hearty, healthy vegetarian food which will please all tastes.

Available for $15 postpaid from:

Morning Hill Associates
15013 Geary Crk Rd
Canyon City OR 97820
541-542-2525
morninghil@yahoo.com

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