Slow Cook Solar: Sun-Baked Summer Meals Good for People and Planet

An award-winning guide to one simple way of loving ourselves and our planet. Learn how to cook delicious summer meals outdoors using only the energy of sunshine!

Why heat up your kitchen (and planet Earth) by turning on the stove when it's hot outside? You don't have to, you know. Most Americans, including those who live in Seattle, Minneapolis, Boston, and New York City, can cook outdoors with sunshine all summer long. Using a simple box or panel solar cooker to make summer meals is like having an unplugged slow cooker in your yard, a slow cooker reinvented to run on sun power. Solar cooking is easy, safe, and free. It creates no emissions and keeps your kitchen cool.

Slow Cook Solar tells you everything you need to know to get started. It features 100+ climate-friendly, plant-rich recipes for sun-baked summer meals that are simple, flavorful, and sustainable. Whatever your dietary preferences, you'll find something sure to please your taste buds here.

100+ mouthwatering recipes, mostly gluten free, many vegan or vegetarian, to slowly and gently bake fruits, vegetables, grains, pasta, egg-and-cheese dishes, poultry, meat, and seafood Whole food ingredients from the garden or farmers' market for healthy dips and spreads, breads, chilled veggie soups, salads, quiches and casseroles, bowls, and sweetsLow, slow cooking to preserve moisture and enhance flavor, allowing you to set it and forget it

Recipes include:

Green Bean PestoBeet and Cucumber SoupSour Cream Dill Potato SaladParmesan Spinach Polenta BowlCrustless Crab QuicheSummer Fruit Crumble

"Cooking with fire is primal--even when the fire is 93 million miles away. This book will make you a practitioner of both ancient wisdom and avant-garde skill. Bon appetit!" --Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and Third Act, bestselling author of The End of Nature and Falter