"We have a bag of matchstick carrots in the refrigerator that is about to go bad. Please do something with them," said The Mister after purchasing said carrots because The Inconsistent Toddler ate some of them one day, once.
I make a killer carrot cake, but why bake a whole cake when I can do the easy portioning of mini-muffins? The Inconsistent Toddler liked them so much, they ate four mini-muffins on the spot. Which is great, because they are otherwise against carrots.
It was during the pandemic, stuck at home and with an itchy brain, that I was watching some continuing education content from Appalachian State University in my good old home state of North Carolina, and there was an excellent hour-long lecture (click me to watch) on sustainable cooking using solar. I am cheapfrugal, I like sustainability, and I like food. This all seemed like a win-win-win, plus I like to camp so this style of cooking could go camping with me and eliminate my low-key resource-anxiety (like range-anxiety, but for propane).
Through the magic of finding the right influencer for a product I already decided to purchase, I found some sort of sponsorship deal or special to make owning the All American Sun Oven, which I had settled on, more affordable. It was the pandemic. I was sitting at home anyway. So I bought one.
But then the question of what to cook came up. A Sun Oven without recipes is just a gadget and not a tool.
It turns out that in addition to being able to bake anything which can bake at lower temperatures in an oven - my Sun Oven never reports being above 300F and for planning purposes should be considered to be 250F, and that's in full sun at the beach - it can also cook any recipes that could otherwise be cooked in a slow cooker/crockpot.
There are many types of #neurodiversity and #ADHD is just one of them. A lot of times, an Instant Pot is a godsend for the easily distracted, whether that be adult caregivers to children who have the urge to draw a masterpiece all over the living room in lipstick, or a person whose brain is the challenge. Which is why so many of my recipes are written for people with executive dysfunction and low working memory, and cover meals that would be faster and, some might find, easier to prepare without the Instant Pot. And today is no exception.
