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Heaven Sent Food is your guide to solar cooking!

Ever had anything that was slow roasted?  Maybe chicken or vegetables that sat simmering in a pan in the oven all day?

Remember the smells wafting through your house as you could hardly wait for dinner time to arrive?

Well, you can have that every day, without leaving your oven on all day!

It TRULY is possible, and EASY, to cook with nothing but the sun.

Not only that, but using solar cooking lets you unlock the natural flavors of your slow-roasted meal, preserve the nutrition that is in your food.

Perhaps best of all, you can cook your food for FREE using solar cooking!

This guide includes simple how-to instructions for:

  • buying a solar oven
  • cooking techniques
  • 115+ recipes

These solar cooking recipes are designed to bring delicious, affordable, and nutritious food to your table. None of the recipes use any hydrogenated oils like shortening or margarine.

"I'm a fussy eater. Over the summer, Jackie tried out her solar oven recipes on me, and I enjoyed them all. In fact, they were some of my best experiences with food since I left our farm in Wisconsin !  I am now using her recipes in my brand new solar oven. Flavors are simply the best!"
 
Layne Rabe, Apache Junction, AZ

The main sections inside Heaven Sent Food include these topics:

  • Types of solar cookers and recommendations about suppliers
  • Choosing your solar cooker based on your climate and lifestyle
  • Selecting pans
  • Cleaning the solar oven
  • Basic food cooking techniques using solar energy
  • 115 recipes for breads, soups, meat, vegetables, fruit, casseroles, convenience foods, and desserts
  • 100 pages as e-book, 116 as paper copy, with comb binding so it lays flat on your countertop

"�I made your Bacon Wrapped Chicken dish last night, and the family loved it. I don't have a solar oven, so in trying to simulate what I think it does, I used a 9' x 9' stoneware baking dish, then covered and sealed it with aluminum foil. The last few minutes I uncovered the dish and moved it up a rack just to crisp up the bacon. It was wonderful. If solar ovens can make it even better, I'm going shopping for one."

Tom Ray, Michigan

The main sections inside Heaven Sent Food include these topics:

Full Table of Contents

Why Cook with Solar Energy
A Word about the Weather

Types of Solar Cookers
Box Ovens
Parabolic Cookers
Panel Solar Cookers

Choosing Cooking Pans for Your Solar Cooker
Cleaning and Caring for Your Solar Oven
Food Cooking Techniques

Bread

Yeasted Bread
Quick Breads

Soups
Rice and Pasta

Meats
Beef
Pork
Poultry
Things to Do with Leftover Chicken

Vegetables
Potatoes
Fruit

Casseroles
Convenience Foods

Frozen Dinners (Yes!  Even these work great in solar cookers)

Desserts
Cookies
Cakes
Pies
Fruit Desserts
 

When Jackie introduced me to solar cooking last year, I was fascinated. I got a solar oven immediately. Now I have two. Solar cooked food tastes so much better. It's fun to experiment with the recipes, too.  We live in the mountains off the grid, so now we can save our solar-generated electricity for light at night.  Gotta love that blue sky and sunshine!

Stephanie Myers, Nevada

 

As the cookbook title suggests, solar-cooked food really is heaven sent. Every day the equivalent of 4.25 trillion barrels of oil falls on the United States as sunshine.

Why not learn to cook with a solar oven and take advantage of all that energy?

Foods cooked in a solar oven taste much better than those cooked conventionally because the gentle, even heat develops the full flavor of your food.

Food doesn't stick to pans, foods cook evenly and juices stay intact. Best of all, the solar heat retains vitamins and minerals, so the food you eat is nutritious and flavorful.

In many places, solar ovens are used all year around, but even in cold climates, if you live below Juneau, Alaska, or north of Antarctica, a solar oven is for you.

In this book, you will learn all you need to know about the basics of solar cooking: recipes for meat, fish, poultry, bread, fruits, vegetables, deserts and convenience foods.

 

(Sample Recipe)
Mediterranean Chicken Breasts

Here's another example of how sunshine can transform your food from ho hum to excellent. This recipe comes together easily, and it's good enough to serve at a dinner party, with a nice bottle of red or white wine. Make sure the friends with whom you enjoy this can handle dipping bread in sauce.

4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2/3 cup sun dried tomatoes, packed in oil
1 medium onion, sliced
3 cloves garlic, crushed
� teaspoon dried basil
� teaspoon dried oregano
1/3 cup kalmata olives

� cup freshly grated Romano, parmesan, or asiago cheese or crumbled feta

Wash chicken breasts and put in bottom of solar pan. Spread the remaining ingredients (except cheese) on top of the breasts. Bake in solar cooker for an hour, add cheese, and finish cooking, until the pan juices come to a simmer. This creates a luscious broth, and must be served with crusty French bread for dipping into this delicious sauce.

 

There are three options.  Please choose the best one for you.

Ebook
(Buy it online download right away, read it online or print it yourself)
$14.95
Print Book
(Buy it online, shipped to your door)
$19.95 (+ S&H)
Print Book + Ebook
(Get both the print book shipped to you and the ebook to download)
$19.95 (+ S&H)

About the Author
Jackie Harsha

Jackie started cooking in late childhood, and while life took her on other paths, she never lost her enthusiasm for bringing delicious meals to the table for family and friends.

She seldom used recipes, even at a young age, preferring to make up her own.

Then she found solar cooking.

This brought a whole new dimension to cooking good food. Finding a lack of comprehensive solar cookbooks on the market led her to put this cookbook together, to share the wonder of cooking with the sun with others.

Her first loves have always been cooking and protecting the environment. She is a former member of the Maricopa County Water Quality Advisory Board, the Laguna Beach Chamber Music Society Board of Directors, and has worked on clean air issues in the Phoenix metro area.

Jackie spearheaded the early efforts of the Central Arizona Homebuilder's Association to adopt water-saving landscape techniques in new home subdivisions.

She lives in Phoenix, AZ, but cooks all over North America.


There are three options.  Please choose the best one for you.

Ebook
(Buy it online download right away, read it online or print it yourself)
$14.95   
Print Book
(Buy it online, shipped to your door)
$19.95 (+ S&H)
Print Book + Ebook
(Get both the print book shipped to you and the ebook to download)
$19.95 (+ S&H)