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We are talking about desserts and please you’re in for a rude awakening if you think desert recipes is some kind of cake. And that doesn’t mean healthy alternatives to after dinner snacks either. If that’s what you expect, there is some confusion. The often sweet end to a meal is a dessert, while a desert is an often sandy and hot but always dry area. This article is about desert cooking.

Continuing to talk about desserts recipe it is clear that there can’t be a discussion of desert recipes without mentioning the most important cooking tool in the desert. That’s the sun. Temperatures in the desert can top 150°F, that’s good for cooking. That heat can be used in the place of an oven, microwave or other modern cooking appliances. 

There are expensive solar cookers as well as homemade ones.  Such cookers can reach up to 300°F, perfect for many desert recipes, yes there is a great deal to desserts ! Everything from eggs stakes can be cooked on this.  But keep two things in mind.  The first is that this is a slow cooking method. That’s many hours needed to cook.  As the sun moves you’ll have to realign the cooker. And when the sun isn’t shining, on a cloudy day or at night, a solar cooker is no good.

But solar cooking has advantages that make desert recipes a tasty treat.  Slow cooking keeps food moist.  And it really isn’t possible to burn anything because there are hours of leeway in cooking times rather than minutes or even seconds with other cooking methods.  Have your doubts? Try rice on the stove for an extra minute. Also longer meal preparation time means more time to look forward to that great meal.  Food tastes better when some care is taken in the preparation. And don’t worry about food not browning in a solar cooker. If there’s some fat, the meat will brown.

Is it time for the desert recipes? Try desert spaghetti squash with sausage, spaghetti sauce and Parmesan cheese.  Another possibility is a delicious Chile casserole. That’s not Chile with meat and beans, that’s hot Pablano Chiles, by the way  These and others can be found with a quick Google search.

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