I usually end up cooking with my solar cooker in August when it gets too hot for kitchen activity with stove or oven. But, this year, that weather showed up early. Today, I enjoyed solar halibut and quinoa! Plus a cold kale salad.
The halibut was placed in a foil "bowl" and then I added a home made mustard sauce and topped it with some shredded ginger and dried (no sugar) cranberries. I put 1/3 cup of dried quinoa in a cup of water that was in a baby bread loaf pan.
Started cooking about noon. By the time I brought it in, I had to use pot holders to pick up the pot - it was just as hot as if in an oven.
I let it cook out there for about 3 hours. Both the fish and the quinoa were done to perfection!
I usually end up cooking with my solar cooker in August when it gets too hot for kitchen activity with stove or oven. But, this year, that weather showed up early. Today, I enjoyed solar halibut and quinoa! Plus a cold kale salad. 
Started cooking about noon. By the time I brought it in, I had to use pot holders to pick up the pot - it was just as hot as if in an oven.
Found this a-flowering today. Hens and chicks. The stem is about 6-7 inches tall.
Someone put a turtle in the defunct pond. It's a non-native to this area. Not sure what to think about having this invader. Turtle is about 8 inches in length - not a baby.
Clearing out pix from the camera and came upon this one of the daffodils and the whirlygig.
