Solar Cooking Workshop is Altered

After building the solar ovens on Saturday, we planned a Solar Cooking Workshop for Sunday. The volunteers had done fundraising before they left home, and were prepared for the expenses of the food, as well as the few things we needed for the ovens themselves.

Unfortunately, Sunday turned out to be too overcast to cook solar, so we turned the class into an indoor cooking class to teach the women the recipes for the foods that they had planned to cook in the solar ovens.  They taught how to make a delicious lentil and rice casserole, as well as a chicken/vegetable stew.

Julie Mikus taught the procedure ...

and everyone gathered around to watch ...

while Gloria prepared the tortillas ...

and Doña Goya prepared the fire with the comal on top to cook them for the lunch that followed.

For some reason, I didn't get photos of the lunch, but everyone agreed that the recipes were superb and we all look forward to trying them in the Solar Ovens.  We decided that we would collect more boxes over the next while, so we can commit one day to building the other 10 ovens for the other person in the pair, and while we are building, we will use the first 10 ovens to cook the recipes that we had just learned, along with a variety of other local foods, like beans, rice and sweet potatoes.