Cooking with Bri- Solar Cooking (Manicotti)

First I put the solar cooker outside. It got up to 250 but as soon as I took that lid off it dropped to around 225 in no time..lol..
We used everything in this picture (but the apples in the back ground and the Great Value bags. We decided not to use them this time.)

We mixed One 15 oz. of ricotta cheese, 2 cups of mozzarella cheese, 1 free ranged egg, and some basil off our plant (oh, we also added just and a dash of Oregano.)

Then we put the mix into a zip lock bag and cut the corners and squeezed that into the noodles (I loved doing that with the eggs so thought why not do it with this. Works great!)

Then Bri put 3 cups of Ragu and one cup water in our pan.

Then she placed all the manicotti in the pan. We Covered it with a lid.

In the solar cooker it goes.

We just let it cook from there. I found that we need to work on the lid some. My cooker liked to stay around 225 most of the day.

We didn't want to sit around on such a nice day so we hit the beach. That's Corey below waving at you!

When we came back it was time to see what we had made.

Then time to test it.

I have found that my kids will tell me if something taste good or not more then an adult will.

We did find that two of them were a tad dry on the top. Next time we will spoon the sauce over them (I think that should fix that problem.)

** Here is some information that I learned from "Cooking with Sunshine."

Danger Zone is 50 to 125

Water pasteurizes at 150

Food pasteurizes at 160

Food cooks at 180

Water Boils at 212

Box and panel cooker typical Maximum heat range is from 180-275

**The recipe we used is based off one in the book (Cooking with Sunshine.) We made a few modification but not many.

**Another side note. When we came home from the beach we noticed that the sun had moved of course. So, we moved the oven and tilted it on it's side so the sun could get in it better.