Posts by Anne Patterson

Sailing Green, TIPS & IDEAS

Cruiser Anne Patterson makes solar ovens ... And shares a recipe

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Anne Patterson and her solar oven, in her ‘other galley’ (the SEA LADY foredeck)

Three years ago on the Women and Cruising blog, Anne Patterson of sv Sea Lady wrote about cooking aboard with a solar oven.

Her experience with the solar oven was so favorable, that when the company producing her …Read more

Sailing Green, TIPS & IDEAS

Good Cookin’: Why I Love My Solar Oven

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“You baked that?  On your boat??  In a solar oven???”

Whenever I present a double-layer homemade carrot cake like this one I’m sure to be met with incredulous guests. Most cruisers do little baking anyway, so I had them on “from scratch”. Trusting their culinary fortunes to the sun is a real stretch – no …Read more