Comments on: Sunday Solar Fiesta: Solar Ovens

By: Scotia48

Scotia48 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:15:46 +0000

It’s so funny. After using the salmon cheeks as a protein food in dishes on the river because they would have been just thrown away, now here in SW Washington we can buy salmon cheeks as a fish monger item. They are so good and sweet meat. The muscle that is behind the fin is really great, also. Can’t remember the name, but I don’t see them here.
Biscuit, you have inspired me to try a solar cooker here and see what I can produce! Got to get back to the land!
BTW, cooking over an open fire and making biscuits in a cast iron covered pot, bacon and eggs in a skillet is heaven!!!
Buffalo burgers are on the grill. Making red potato oven fries, cucumber salad and radish salad. Yum!

By: biscuit

biscuit — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:31:46 +0000

Real Life will begin after the zombies.

By: biscuit

biscuit — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:30:56 +0000

Never, I don’t think. Seem to recall *something* about them, but what that is, I don’t know.

I take it they’re tasty!

By: biscuit

biscuit — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:30:17 +0000

Wow – you were hardcore. WTG!!

By: Scotia48

Scotia48 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:42:26 +0000

Oh, ever had salmon cheeks?

By: Scotia48

Scotia48 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:41:47 +0000

We ground our own wheat berries and made potato yeast (or sourdough) for bread and cooked a mean loaf. Actually cooked/baked salmon after the propane ran out. Uh, well, I cooked bear in it and got the name on the river of Cynnabear!!!

By: Kate Petersen

Kate Petersen — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:35:15 +0000

I have this lack of sun problem, the same one that keeps me from getting satellite internet — big mountain and many very old huge trees on south side of house. Nice for keeping cool, not so much for gardens and solar cooking.

We’re still in Suburbia in Denial enough that a solar cooker in the front yard would be seriously frowned upon. I do what I can now and plot for rebellious days later. After the zombies.

By: biscuit

biscuit — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:06:18 +0000

I love that!

And you’re so right — people just want to be stars. The quality of life doesn’t seem to much matter.

Unfortunately, a good life requires good sense, and it is indeed lacking.

I’d love to hear some of the things you cooked in yours! Me, I cook mostly buffalo, chicken on occasion, vegetables, stews. Have never made a bread in it, although someday I might.

By: Scotia48

Scotia48 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:57:12 +0000

Biscuit,
Sensibility has gone out of human thinking. I think (;-)) we are the last to be sensible in cooking, farming, homesteading, sewing, ranching. I used a solar oven in Alaska in 1976 for goodness sake! It wasn’t hard, like you, move with the sun! DUH! Why don’t people get this? I’ll tell you, they are disengaged from what it is to be human and think. Today at church we did the hokey-pokey. Left hand in/out, right foot in/out, brain in/out, that one got me. If your brain is not engaged, then you don’t know what you are doing.
Also, here’s something I’ve posted before, but something I live by:
GENES

A human being should be able to
Change a diaper,
Plan an invasion,
Butcher a hog,
Design a building,
Write a sonnet,
Balance accounts,
Build a wall,
Set a bone,
Comfort the dying,
Take orders,
Give orders,
Cooperate,
Act alone,
Solve equations,
Analyze a new problem.
Pitch manure,
Program a computer,
Cook a tasty meal,
Fight efficiently,
Die gallantly……………………specialization is for insects.

– Lazarus Long/Miyamoto Musashi