EVERYDAY FOOD STORAGE http://everydayfoodstorage.net Love food storage with Everyday Food Storage amazing online classes, recipes, downloads, and how-to videos! Fri, 03 May 2013 12:52:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 A Day with No Power=Sun Oven Cooking http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/05/03/preparedness-fridays-a-day-with-no-power/food-storage-recipes http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/05/03/preparedness-fridays-a-day-with-no-power/food-storage-recipes#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 12:52:40 +0000 Crystal http://everydayfoodstorage.net/?p=8680 Have you ever gone a day with out power?  Ever just given it a dry run to see how it would go?  Well that is exactly what my neighborhood did a few months ago.  It was actually a lot of fun.  I didn’t know when the day would be until I got THE EMAIL stating what the “disaster” would be (we have two more coming….time to make sure my water is good!)  Lucky for me, I had just watched a Curious George about the power going out and solar cooking with my preschooler-so she was totally game for it!

Here were the rules: 1. No electricity 2. Turn the heater off 3. Only open the fridge 3 times 4. No cell phones (YIPES!) 5. still had access to water

To be honest, I thought about making it really fun and eating ice cream for breakfast…after all if you knew the power was going to be out for a couple of days wouldn’t you eat the ice cream before it melted?  Also, I was pretty sure my preschooler would think I was the coolest mom EVER-but I did refrain.  First thing on the agenda was to break out the Sun Oven (YEAH FOR GOOD WEATHER!)  I knew I would have to cook lunch and dinner in it since I had used the last of my bread the day before feeding the masses.  We warmed hot dogs for lunch and I tried a NEW Sun Oven recipe for dinner which was actually a great way to use some food storage and solar power.  I spent a whole day with my kids unplugged, made some Halloween decorations to hang in the kitchen and had a wonderful day.  The kids loved playing with the flashlights (you know the ones that go off when the power is out) but here were the things I learned

  1. I officially learned how to exit the garage with no power!
  2. I forgot that the fridge water wouldn’t work with out electricity (meaning no super nice filtered water)
  3. I need to learn how to apple box or dutch oven cook-because what would I have done if the sun weren’t out?
  4. Living life unplugged for a day was awesome!
You’ll notice we used the flashlights as our candles and had a wonderful dinner!  If you want to try it in your Sun Oven here is the recipe.
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Hearty 6 hour Stew
Recipe type: Dinner
Prep time: 
Cook time: 
Total time: 

Serves: 4-6
 

This is a perfect meal for your sun oven and to use some of your food storage food!
Ingredients
  • 1 lb. beef stew cubes
  • 4 carrots, sliced
  • 4 medium potatoes, cut in large chunks
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 (1oz.) pkg. lipton dry onion soup mix
  • 2 (10.75 oz.) cans cream of mushroom soup
  • 1 (8 oz.) can tomato sauce
  • 1 (10 oz.) package frozen green peas

Instructions
  1. Grease pan. Place beef cubes on the bottom. LAyer carrots, then potatoes, placing bay leaf on top. In a separate bowl mix remaining ingredients and pour over beef and vegetables. Cover with a tight-fitting lid. Set out in your Sun Oven for 4-6 hours. YUM!

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]]> http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/05/03/preparedness-fridays-a-day-with-no-power/food-storage-recipes/feed 4 Saturday Show Offs: Food Storage Applesauce Cupcakes from the SUN OVEN! http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/05/02/saturday-show-offs-food-storage-applesauce-cupcakes-from-the-sun-oven/food-storage-recipes http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/05/02/saturday-show-offs-food-storage-applesauce-cupcakes-from-the-sun-oven/food-storage-recipes#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 12:45:12 +0000 Crystal http://everydayfoodstorage.net/?p=9856 Okay, Diana get’s total food storage brownie points.  Not only does this recipe use great food storage ingredients, it  was also baked in the Sun Oven! Diana got this recipe from http://sunoven.com where they have a lot of great Sun Oven Recipes for you to try.

Sun Oven Applesauce Muffins/Cupcakes

Ingredients

Topping:

1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted and cooled

Muffins:

2 cups all-purpose flour (whole wheat would work great as well!)
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 large egg, at room temperature (1 T. dry egg powder with 2 T. water)
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar (1/2 cup white sugar with 1/2 TBS
molasses mixed in)
1 1/4 cups unsweetened applesauce (made from my food storage
dehydrated apples then blended in blender)
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1/4 cup milk (1 1/2 TBS powdered milk plus 1/4 cup water)

Equipment

Two muffin pans with six indentations each with cooking spray,
silicone muffin molds and a baking pan, or a combination.

Preparation

Set Global Sun Oven out to preheat. Spray muffin tins or molds with
cooking spray.

Topping:

Mix together sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Stir in butter until
blended.

Muffins:

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, granulated sugar, baking
powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon until well combined. Set
aside.

In another medium bowl, whisk together the brown sugar and the egg
until thick and pale brown, about 3 minutes. Whisk in the applesauce,
melted butter, and milk, until blended. Use a wooden spoon to stir
the flour mixture into the liquid ingredients until moistened.

Fill the prepared tins three-quarters full. Sprinkle topping over
each muffin. Bake in Sun Oven until muffins are lightly browned,
about 40 minutes. A toothpick inserted into the center of one muffin
should come out with a crumb or two attached.

Makes 12 to 18 muffins.

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]]> http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/05/02/saturday-show-offs-food-storage-applesauce-cupcakes-from-the-sun-oven/food-storage-recipes/feed 2 Kids Solar Oven http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/05/01/kids-solar-oven/food-storage-recipes http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/05/01/kids-solar-oven/food-storage-recipes#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 12:44:32 +0000 Crystal http://everydayfoodstorage.net/?p=7814 Okay, sorry for the lack of posting. If you’re looking for a fun activity to do with your kids, I’ve got one…and it includes a great excuse to make hot dogs!

My kids were able to do Oma and Grandpa camp this summer with some of their cousins and to get the kids in the Solar Cooking spirit we made a mini solar cooker out of a pizza box for them to make s’mores in while I made hot dogs in the Sun Oven (which were fabulous!)

As you can see it’s as easy as can be! Simple wrap aluminum foil, shiny side up, on the inside and inside top of the pizza box. Place the the chocolate on one graham cracker and a marshmallow on the other on dishes (preferably black) and place in the oven. Cover with plastic wrap to keep from outside things landing on it and prop the door open. Let sit for 15-30 minutes.

The kids loved it! The marshmallows actually got warm and gooey and the chocolate was perfectly melted!

If you were wondering…the hot dogs in the Sun Oven are awesome! They aren’t boiled and they aren’t grilled they taste like what you would get at a ball game. It takes about 30 minutes for them to bake.

Also, if you’re wondering, I did try making s’mores and hot dogs at the same time in my Sun Oven and the chocolate didn’t melt it just burned. Total bummer!

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]]> http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/05/01/kids-solar-oven/food-storage-recipes/feed 2 Sun Oven Chronicles: Banana Bread http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/30/sun-oven-chronicles-banana-bread/food-storage-recipes http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/30/sun-oven-chronicles-banana-bread/food-storage-recipes#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:44:10 +0000 Crystal http://everydayfoodstorage.net/?p=7752

So when I showed up at my parents house I was really excited that they had very ripe bananas on their tree.  (Yes, my parents have  a banana tree-how cool is that?!) So of course, I had to try my whole wheat banana bread recipe in the Sun Oven a complete food storage and emergency preparedness masterpiece!  But I really wanted to see what the difference would be compared to a regular oven-especially since the Sun Oven claims to make food moister…so I put it to the test!

So, can you guess which loaf was baked in the Sun Oven? The one on the left…I don’t know that there is any way to describe how moist it looked right out of the oven. I was honestly amazed that the claim was entirely true. The bread from the Sun Oven was more flavorful and melted in my mouth.

So, what did I learn? The Sun Oven does indeed make your food moister!

WANT TO LEARN MORE?  TAKE THE SUN OVEN CLASS OR READ MY POSTS ABOUT THE SUN OVEN!

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]]> http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/30/sun-oven-chronicles-banana-bread/food-storage-recipes/feed 4 Sun Oven Chronicles: BREAD! http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/29/sun-oven-chronicles-bread/food-storage-recipes http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/29/sun-oven-chronicles-bread/food-storage-recipes#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:52:21 +0000 Crystal http://everydayfoodstorage.net/?p=7725 Okay, this is probably my most requested post. In fact I’ve made bread 4 times before I decided I would actually post about it to make sure I had a lot of information for you to make you as successful as possible. (Yes, the picture below is REALLY the bread I baked in the oven)

So instead of going through all of my many tries with the bread, let me just tell you what I’ve learned:

  1. First and foremost, the bread tastes sensational! You wouldn’t think it would make that big of a difference but the bread was so sweet tasting. (Cooking bread at a lower temperature for a longer amount of time breaks down the complex carbohydrates which makes it taste sweeter.)
  2. Your bread really will brown! -REALLY!
  3. On that same note…your bread can also get dark brown and dried out if you leave it in too long.
  4. The best temperature to pull your bread is 180. (Until you get the “feel” for your oven you may want to use a quick read thermometer or a thermometer like THIS to know when the bread is just PERFECT with out opening the oven door a lot.)
  5. If you use a “quick rise” yeast don’t let your dough rise (at all) before putting it in the oven or it will rise too much and fall in the oven.
  6. Yes!  The EZ Wheat Bread works AWESOME in the Sun Oven.
  7. Since the Sun Oven can only bake two loaves of bread at a time, you can still make a lot of dough (say in your Bosch) and portion out your dough.  Cook the two loaves and with your four remaining sections shape them into loaves and quickly (QUICKLY) wrap them in plastic wrap and freeze them.  The night before you want to bake them, pull two out of the freezer, unwrap, and place in your bread pan to thaw in your fridge over night.  Put the bread on your counter in the morning to finish thawing and rising and then bake in your Sun Oven. Fresh bread every morning…sounds a little like heaven, right?
  8. It was amazing to have fresh bread in the summer without heating up the house.
  9. Sun Ovens are really fun to have your family help you cook with! (See my bread baking brother below that I did some Sun Oven cookin’ with-I learn most of my bread making tips from him…aren’t brothers great?!)

 

 

 

WANT TO LEARN MORE?  TAKE THE SUN OVEN CLASS OR READ MY POSTS ABOUT THE SUN OVEN!

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]]> http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/29/sun-oven-chronicles-bread/food-storage-recipes/feed 9 Sun Oven Chronicles Day Two: FREEZER PIZZA http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/26/sun-oven-chronicles-day-two-freezer-pizza/food-storage-recipes http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/26/sun-oven-chronicles-day-two-freezer-pizza/food-storage-recipes#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:40:28 +0000 Crystal http://everydayfoodstorage.net/?p=7651 Okay, before anyone passes judgement…remember that I’m cooking in the Sun Oven on a daily basis whatever I would NORMALLY be baking in the oven.  While I wanted to do homemade pizza-I also didn’t want to spend all the time to make homemade pizza to not have it work in the Sun Oven.  So I played it safe and tried it first with a freezer pizza first.  And here is what I found out….

Sun Oven Try #2: FREEZER PIZZA

I bought some Di Giorno freezer pizzas from Costco and thought they would be great to try in the Sun Oven.  I was pleasantly surprised that the pizza fit perfectly in the Sun Oven (all 10.5 inches of it).  Luckily, I already had my Sun Oven out pre-heating just waiting for me to try something in it.  So, once I figured it fit, I put it on the rack and went back inside.  I came out to check on it and the 1/4 portion of the pizza hanging off of the rack was hanging down.  It looked like those clocks on Alice in Wonderland…the ones that are drooping off of things.  It makes sense that as the pizza thawed it would droop.  Anyway, so I had to think quick.  I ran inside and got my Mom’s turkey rack which is also the perfect size to place on the rack and hold all the pizza together.  In about an hour the pizza was done.  AND IT LOOKED GREAT!

See?!  Do you see?!  The Pizza actually got brown!  Maybe this isn’t as big to you but my mom had a solar oven growing up (different from a Sun Oven it was just a cardboard box spray painted silver with a piece of glass) and nothing…NOTHING got brown in there.  This gives me so much hope for so many other things that are not only going to be plausible but delicious!  I think next I’ll have to try some banana bread…whole wheat banana bread from homegrown bananas-to be exact!

SUN OVEN LESSONS LEARNED:

  1. Pizza is DOABLE!  (With a rack or cooking sheet that will allow for it not to get droopy).
  2. Paul Munsen was right! The Sun Oven will actually BROWN food.

One more Sun Oven picture just for fun!

WANT TO LEARN MORE?  TAKE THE SUN OVEN CLASS OR READ MY POSTS ABOUT THE SUN OVEN!

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]]> http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/26/sun-oven-chronicles-day-two-freezer-pizza/food-storage-recipes/feed 2 Sun Oven Chronicles Day One http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/25/sun-oven-cooking-day-one/food-storage-recipes http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/25/sun-oven-cooking-day-one/food-storage-recipes#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:30:11 +0000 Crystal http://everydayfoodstorage.net/?p=7632 So many of you know that last Summer I’m dedicated myself to learning how to use my Sun Oven. I’ll be sharing with you every detail I learned along the way-in a more journal entry sort of way. So…here it goes…

Sun Oven Cooking Day One: “Boiling” Eggs

Well I figured I would start easy.  After all, Paul Munsen described “boiling” eggs so easy-just throw (gently) the eggs in a pre-heated oven and let them cook for 30-35 minutes.  So, that’s what I did.  I pre-heated the oven in a sunny spot and put six eggs in an egg carton and walked away for 30-35 minutes. WHOOPS!  Well, when I went back to pull the eggs out the Sun Oven was in the shade (thanks to the house’s shadow).  The eggs still spun like boiled eggs but when I cracked it open, the top was soft boiled and the bottom was hard boiled.  So unless you like slime eggs- it wasn’t like how I pictured or like to eat my eggs.  HOWEVER, don’t forget that I didn’t notice that my sun oven went into the shade which was a big part of the problem.

LESSONS LEARNED:

  1. Put your Sun Oven in a place where it ALWAYS gets sun then you don’t have to worry about it going in the shade.  Find the place at your house that ALWAYS has sun.  Let’s say it together one more time…find the place that ALWAYS has sun!
  2. Start with just one egg or little amounts until you know how everything works.

TRY #2

So then I put the Sun Oven where the sun ALWAYS is and tried putting an egg timer and an egg in the Sun Oven to see if that would help me know when the eggs are done.  After only about 10-15 minutes the egg timer showed the it was done.  So I brought the egg in and I broke it open-thankfully over the sink.  It was NOT done!  After thinking about it more, my egg timer was dark and probably absorbed more of the heat from the sun.  So now, that idea is out.

LESSONS LEARNED:

  1. Egg timers don’t work.

TRY #3

So this may be embarrassing to admit it took me three times-but we’re all friends right? So this time, I just listened to what Paul said….30-35 minutes in a preheated oven. And…IT WORKED!!

LESSONS LEARNED:

  1. It’s okay to experiment-everything gives results and now we know a lot of things.  If you want to learn more…keep following me this summer!
  2. It always helps to actually follow the directions! ;)

WANT TO LEARN MORE?  TAKE THE SUN OVEN CLASS OR READ MY POSTS ABOUT THE SUN OVEN!

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]]> http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/25/sun-oven-cooking-day-one/food-storage-recipes/feed 5 How to Use a Sun Oven Class Questions http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/24/how-to-use-a-sun-oven-class-questions/food-storage-recipes http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/24/how-to-use-a-sun-oven-class-questions/food-storage-recipes#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:21:00 +0000 Crystal http://everydayfoodstorage.net/?p=7586 Alright, more Sun Oven class! I want you to have time to watch it and soak it in so I’m breaking the Sun Oven class up into 15 minute sections and will post a new section every day. Also, remember there is a great deal on the New and Improved All American Sun Ovens going on right now (but it ends June 21st- more info below)

SUN OVEN CLASS: QUESTIONS

EXPECT THESE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED ABOUT GLOBAL SUN OVENS:

  1. Why does Paul say to start with a frozen chicken instead of a thawed chicken in the Sun Oven?
  2. Are there any resources for recipes and cooking tips for the Sun Oven?
  3. How do you focus a Sun Oven?
  4. How important is it to keep the glass and reflectors clean on a Sun Oven?
  5. What if the reflectors on a Sun Oven get bent or dinged?
  6. What maintenance should I perform on my Sun Oven?
  7. What if my glass or other component break on my Sun Oven?

WANT TO LEARN MORE?  TAKE THE SUN OVEN CLASS OR READ MY POSTS ABOUT THE SUN OVEN!

GET YOUR OWN NEW AND IMPROVED ALL AMERICAN SUN OVEN!

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]]> http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/24/how-to-use-a-sun-oven-class-questions/food-storage-recipes/feed 1 How to use a Sun Oven: Part TEN http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/23/how-to-use-a-sun-oven-part-ten/food-storage-recipes http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/23/how-to-use-a-sun-oven-part-ten/food-storage-recipes#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:18:55 +0000 Crystal http://everydayfoodstorage.net/?p=7584 Alright, more Sun Oven class! I want you to have time to watch it and soak it in so I’m breaking the Sun Oven class up into 15 minute sections and will post a new section every day. Also, remember there is a great deal on the New and Improved All American Sun Ovens going on right now (but it ends June 21st- more info below)

SUN OVEN CLASS: PART TEN-The humanitarian side of Sun Ovens

EXPECT THESE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED ABOUT GLOBAL SUN OVENS:

  1. How does the Sun Oven help others around the world?
  2. Is the Sun Oven made in the USA?
  3. How does my purchase of a Sun Oven help others around the world?

WANT TO LEARN MORE?  TAKE THE SUN OVEN CLASS OR READ MY POSTS ABOUT THE SUN OVEN!

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]]> http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/23/how-to-use-a-sun-oven-part-ten/food-storage-recipes/feed 3 How to use a Sun Oven parts 7-9 http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/22/how-to-use-a-sun-oven-parts-7-9/food-storage-recipes http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2013/04/22/how-to-use-a-sun-oven-parts-7-9/food-storage-recipes#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:24:39 +0000 Crystal http://everydayfoodstorage.net/?p=7579 Alright, more Sun Oven class! I want you to have time to watch it and soak it in so I’m breaking the Sun Oven class up into 15 minute sections and will post a new section every day. Also, remember there is a great deal on the New and Improved All American Sun Ovens going on right now (but it ends June 21st- more info below)

SUN OVEN CLASS: PART SEVEN-an important addition to your emergency preparedness items

EXPECT THESE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED ABOUT GLOBAL SUN OVENS:

  1. Would a Sun Oven make sense for me if I live in an area that isn’t ALWAYS sunny?
  2. Why is the Sun Oven a great addition to storing other fuels like propane, charcoal, etc.?
  3. Why do I not want to store a lot of propane around my house?

SUN OVEN CLASS: PART EIGHT-Using the Sun Oven to enhance your winter sprouting

EXPECT THESE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED ABOUT GLOBAL SUN OVENS:

  1. How can I enhance my winter sprouting using a Sun Oven?

SUN OVEN CLASS: PART NINE-How to use the Sun Oven to make your water more efficient

EXPECT THESE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED ABOUT GLOBAL SUN OVENS:

  1. How can I use the Sun Oven to rehydrate emergency preparedness food?
  2. How much less water would I use in a Sun Oven to rehydrate emergency preparedness food?
  3. How do I cook rice or beans-would that require less water as well?
  4. How does cooking in a Sun Oven help keep nutrients in my food?

WANT TO LEARN MORE?  TAKE THE SUN OVEN CLASS OR READ MY POSTS ABOUT THE SUN OVEN!

GET YOUR OWN ALL NEW AMERICAN SUN OVEN!

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