Tried and True Recipes for Your Parrot
| Bean/Grain/Pasta Mix 2 cups unpopped popcorn Soak popcorn two days, and beans and peas for one day, changing the soak water every eight hours. Cook popcorn for one hour in LOTS of water in a big covered pot. Add beans and peas, chopped green chili peppers, & cayenne pepper cook for 15 minutes. Add rice/barley, cook for ten minutes. Add pasta and carrots, cook for five minutes. Drain, then add a package of frozen peas and a bag of frozen corn. Add cooked mashed sweet potato cool, bag (I put in 10 ice cube trays, freeze then put in Ziploc bags in freezer. Everything stays sort of semi-hard. To serve: I heat 3 cubes in the microwave for 120 seconds. Mix in 1/4cup of Harrison's Adult Lifetime fine grin pellets. Then add 2 Tab. baby food sweet potatoes, squash, or carrots (for vit. A) and divide between my 5 fids. My favorite store is Whole Foods. I just love the bins of different beans, grains, etc. Bonnie Bruhn |
| BEANS…18 mix 1 Box Manischewitz 18 Bean Soup mix Follow instructions on box, but use 3 c. water instead of seven, celery seed,( instead of celery), and Cayenne Pepper or Chili Pepper instead of the salt and pepper. -- Esther |
| BIRDIE BISCOTTI 1 cup ground bird pellets Mix together. Add makes about 90-100 balls, that can be frozen. ***again, ice cube trays Keep refrigerated.--Sue S., |
| Boiled Popcorn Recipe (microwave)
(see end of this recipe for a quick version way to make this) Measure 2 cups of yellow unpopped popcorn in a tall glass bowl. Cover popcorn over with water. Cover with saran wrap, vented. Microwave on high for 30 minutes making sure the popcorn does not run dry of water. Then seal tight and let it stand 30 minutes. Then vent it, add more water to cover popcorn and microwave again 30 minutes. Then seal again and let it stand 30 minutes more. Then test it with your fingernail, you should be able to push your nail easily into the kernel. If not, repeat another round of cooking. When cooled, serve to parrots. Refrigerate or freeze unused portions. Linda M Len Says....Before bed, I just fill the crock almost to the top with water
and add 2 cups of unpopped popcorn and in the morning the kernels |
| BUTTERNUT SQUASH This is quick and easy and all the birds love it. Cut a butternut squash in half and nuke until soft. Scoop out insides and mix squash, squash seeds, chopped apples, raisins, and soy sausage. (I'm a vegetarian, but I'm sure you could use something else) Put back in shell and microwave about five minutes. Cool, slice, and serve. Judy C |
| Cheese and Toasted Tortillas In a skillet wiped on the bottom with olive oil, place flour tortilla. On top place some pepper jack cheese, a thin slice, and top with another flour tortilla. Heat until bottom tortilla gets a little crispy, then turn it over and cook until the top tortilla is crispy also. Remove from heat, cut into pie shaped pieces and serve. Birds love this and I serve them for the humans with bland things like tomato soup or scrambled eggs. Linda M |
| Chili Rice with Vegetables (for humans and birds) One bag Success Rice boil n bag cooked Combine all three ingredients and blend. Put in the microwave 10 minutes covered with saran wrap vented. (heat until vegetables are thawed and the chili flavor is blended.)
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| CORN PUDDING Mix some finely ground corn meal in water, and microwave approx 1-2 minutes, until it is pudding like. You can add pieces of corn, and/or other veggies to it. You could also add pumpkin puree, apple sauce or baby foods/fruits. Leftovers can be frozen. *hint* I freeze in my ice cube trays (sprayed with a hint of Pam) and remove to a bag once frozen. --Sue S |
| DALLAS FAVORITE HOMEMADE APPLE SAUCE I made this up last Fall when apples started coming in so delicious to the store. Peel and cut into wedges about 4 large eating apples (red delicious, Jonathan, Macintosh, etc.) Then put in a tall microwave safe bowl. Cover completely with water. Cover the dish with saran wrap and vent the wrap. Cook 17 minutes on high in the microwave and then seal the bowl tightly with saran wrap and let stand 10 minutes on the counter. Remove wrap and pour off the water, reserving some. With a mixer or potato masher, smash the cooked apples. Add a dash of cinnamon. Stir. If the mixture is too thick, thin with the reserved water. Heat in the microwave on high about 3 minutes and serve warm, but not hot, to the birds. (And you will like this too!) Linda M |
| EGG/VEGIE MIX 1 Large Egg - raw 2 T low fat Ricotta Cheese 1/2 - 1 cup Cooked beans, or rice, or pasta, or mix of the 3 3 1/2 cups of your birds favorite vegetables such as fresh diced zucchini, yellow squash, turnips, sweet potatoes, spinach, corn, and green peppers OR use the frozen vegetables 1 whole jalapeno pepper, optional 1 large garlic clove finely chopped Sue S. |
| FILLED WAFFLES Using any sticky foods like Oatmeal, thick Cream of Wheat, rice/veggie mixtures, sweet potatoes. white potatoes etc, use a knife to spread the mixture into the holes in a frozen waffle on both sides. Freeze again. Cut up into squares while frozen. Thaw before serving. Note: You can also fill with peanut butter mixed with seeds and eliminate the freezing part. From Cheryl :), |
| Fresh Cranberry Relish chopped cranberries Stir all together and add a dash of lemon juice. I use mandarin canned oranges in mine. Enjoy. Dallas loves this! Just use whatever proportions you like, and omit any ingredient you don't like. <vbg> Linda M |
| HILDYS VEGIE FRITTERS
Very thin pancakes Two eggs; 1/2 cup of milk; 1/2 cup of all purpose flour; Olive Oil; a dash of salt and 3/4 cup nuked fresh, frozen mixed veggies (the small pieces as seen in picture below). Place a package of the frozen veggies into a microwavable dish with 1/4 cup of water and nuke on full strength for about 7 minutes. My fids like the fritters better if the veggies are pre cooked. ~~ Beat the eggs and the milk slightly, then add the salt and flour and whisk till all lumps are dissolved then fold in the nuked veggies. (should be thin mix) In a ten inch skillet heat a tiny bit of olive oil, place a 1/2 cup ladle full of this batter in the pan and cover for a few minutes. When there are bubbles in the batter and the underside is brown, turn the fritter over and fry a minute or so till golden brown. You can substitute the veggies with just corn niblets.(I use Green Giant). If you soften some thin apple slices in a sauté pan with a little butter and then fold them into this batter, they would be a hit with every body. There are endless variations to this batter. The plain pancakes are great too and we use them instead of noodles. Some restaurants in Germany even hang them up after they cut them like noodles and serve them in soups. I have been at places where these dry pancake sticks are literally in a tall glass as a center piece on the tables. The difference is that the plain batter usually is fried with sweet butter and you can taste the difference in the soups etc. Your fids would love to hold one of these dried pancake sticks to munch on. |
| Home Made Microwave Bird Cookies 3/4 cup of Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix Stir in a bowl with a little water to very thick consistency. Drop by teaspoon in a circle pattern onto waxed paper set on a paper plate, a small mound of batter about 1/2 inch wide and high, only make 6-8 at a time. Microwave 30-40 seconds on high. Let cool completely. Lift off the waxed paper and serve or freeze. Makes 24 perfectly sized cookies for a 530 gram umbrella cockatoo. May be frozen. (vary ingredients as you like, chopped nuts, chopped cereal, chopped cranberries for Thanksgiving, add a little honey sometimes, dried fruit chopped fine, cockatiel sized colored pellets, etc.) |
| Home Made Nutriberries 1 cup of dried fruit I blend all the dry ingredients in a food processor until chopped finely. Place mixture into a bowl , add peanut butter and honey or molasses. Mix very well and the mixture is sticky. Roll mixture into small 1/2 ball and place on a cookie sheet. Bake at 325 for about 20 minutes. Cool and serve. They are very good and my kids even like them. If you use molasses they are very dark in color but taste great. I spent $7.00 at the health food store on all the ingredients. I did the recipe by four and ended up with over ninety large size balls. |
| 'Kitchen Sink Fritatta' Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. In a very lightly greased baking dish put some cooked rice and assortment of veggies (I use frozen mixed veggies, thawed) add some shredded sweet potato. Top this with 6 to 8 whole eggs, whipped in the blender with the shells. (Shells can be left out) Pour the eggs over the rice/veggies mixture, mix to distribute the eggs and the rice/veggies evenly. Bake in a 350 degree oven until the eggs are set and golden brown. Make sure the eggs are completely cooked. You can substitute just about anything for anything in this recipe except the eggs. I have made it with pasta instead of rice, you can add cooked beans, left over baked potato is good in it too. My bird love this one. Kim E |
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Nina's Birdy Bread Recipe 2 boxes of Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix 2 eggs 1 cup of applesauce 1 small can of (#303) Libby's pumpkin or sweet potatoes or yams 1/2 cup finely chopped nuts 1/2 cup of corn grits 1 cup small tiel size pellets 1/2 cup rolled oats mix well, add a little water if too stiff, pour into a greased 9x13 pan and bake 20 minutes at 375 degrees. Check for doneness by pressing in the middle of the bread. If it is still squishy it needs to bake a few more minutes. |
| SWEET POTATOE BALLS 1 large sweet potatoe, microwave until its soft
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| SWEET POTATO FRENCH
TOAST 1/2 a jar of sweet potato baby food Optional....sprinkle sliced almonds or cinnamon on top. -- Sue S. |