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Good Stuff to Cook for Birds!
Banana Strips
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Blend all ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Spread the resulting paste onto a clean, microwave safe plate.
Microwave on high heat for 3 1/2 minutes. Remove from microwave and let cool. Cut into shapes or strips, and serve!
Leftovers can be refrigerated and stored for up to 3 days.
Peanut Butter Raisin Pockets
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Using a cookie or biscuit cutter, cut a shape from the center of each slice of bread. Spread a very thin layer of peanut butter on one side of each shape. Peanut butter is high in fat, so be sure to use this ingredient sparingly! On two of the shapes, sprinkle a few raisins or chunks of your bird's favorite dried fruit, such as banana chips, apples, or peaches. Top them with the two remaining shapes, and then press around the sides of the sandwiches using your thumb and forefinger, to seal them.
Honey Banana Birdie Bites
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Preheat your oven to 300 degrees. Grease a large cookie sheet with 1 tsp. of vegetable oil and set aside. Peel both bananas and slice them into discs with a sharp knife. In a medium sized bowl, combine the egg (shells optional), honey, and baby food. Dip banana discs into the mixture and place on the cookie sheet. Once you have all the discs in place, top them with millet, oats, or chopped almonds. Bake in oven for 10 minutes, and then let cool to room temperature. These treats will only keep for a couple of days in the refrigerator.
Birdie Bean Salad
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Soak beans in water overnight before cooking. Drain and rinse the beans and then place them in a pot of water along with the hulled millet. Allow both to soak for an additional thirty minutes. While the beans and millet are soaking, clean, peel, and chop the carrot. Bring the pot of millet and beans to a boil, and allow them to cook for thirty minutes. Add the carrot, and then cook for an additional 30 minutes. Once the beans are done, drain the mixture and allow it to cool to room temperature. Garnish with the Alfalfa sprouts, and serve. Leftovers may be kept frozen for up to a week. Remember never to serve your bird raw or undercooked beans. Raw beans contain a chemical that can be toxic to your pet.
Tropical Fruit Sorbet
Ingredients:
Preparation:
In a blender, add your Banana, yogurt & any soft fruits that will blend into a smooth mixture. Cut up your cored & seeded fruits, add the chunks & blend. [Do not add seeds, cores, etc.] I take the skin off fruits such as kiwi, mango, peaches & papaya while leaving skin on apples & pears. Add all berries, and blend. Pour this mixture into an ice cube tray and freeze!
Tips:
You can just freeze one whole berry in the middle of the cube and hang it up or set in cage.
You can substitute a healthy all natural juice, like orange juice or cranberry juice for the yogurt
You can freeze a leather rope into these Popsicles so that they can chew the rope after it is melted.
The great part about using yogurt as the base for this sorbet treat is that it freezes softer than with juices or water, so you can stick it on a birdie kabob alone or with wood, mineral blocks or other fresh foods.
The yogurt is beneficial because of the bacteria cultures found in yogurt which are soothing to the digestive system (in moderate amounts). The berries are beneficial because Berries contain phytochemicals and flanoids that may help to prevent some diseases.
Banana Oat Muffins
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Mix the Cornbread mix. Add Egg & Milk. Mash the Bananas thoroughly, and stir into Cornbread mixture. Add the Rolled Oats/Oatmeal and a dash of Cinnamon for flavoring. Scoop into a mini-muffin tin, and sprinkle a little of the Granola Mixture on top of each muffin. (The Granola Mixture includes Oatmeal and organic, fresh Sunflower seeds)
Spirulina Corn Bread Muffins
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Start by whisking the egg and milk together in a small/medium mixing bowl. Preheat the oven 400 degrees. In another bowl, crush the egg shell from your egg into tiny bits. Mix that into bowl of egg & milk. Mix in the package of Corn Bread Muffin mix and add in anything you'd like. Add a handful of 'Craisens' brand dried Cranberries. Mix in
Harrison's pellets, a handful of live sprout seeds (Various mixtures), cooked Brown Rice and powdered Spirulina. If you have any other bird safe food items on hand, like frozen peas, dehydrated fruits, etc. you can add those in for more flavor.
Use a small muffin tray to cook. Makes about 32 small sized muffins. Grease with nonstick spray, and plop your mixture into the muffin cups, filling each cup about 1/2-3/4 full. Cook for 11-14 minutes; they're done when the tops have a golden brown tint. (NOTE: If you use the powdered Spirulina, your batter will look green while mixing, but after they cook, they will be ordinary colored corn bread muffins!)
Pumpkin Bran Muffins
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees
Blend all-bran cereal and applesauce together in a large bowl. Set aside for 5 minutes to allow the cereal to soften
Mix the flour, baking powder and baking soda in another bowl
Add canned pumpkin, egg, ground ginger, ground cloves, ground cinnamon, vanilla extract, cranberries and mashed banana into the cereal-applesauce mixture
Fold in the dry mixture. Make sure to blend it in, don’t over mix. The batter should be lumpy. (Over-mixing the batter will make it tough.)
Spoon 1 cup of the batter into muffin cups
Top each with three to four plain pumpkin seeds on top for decoration
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes
Cornmeal Stuffing
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Bring broth to a boil in a pot
Add cornmeal to broth, continuously stirring to reduce lumps
Add breadcrumbs, egg, chopped celery, rosemary, cranberries and sunflower seeds
Let mixture stand for 5 minutes
Birdie Pumpkin Bread
Ingredients:
Mixed un-sulphur dried fruits and raw sunflower seeds
About 2 cups Arrowhead Mills Organic Cornbread mix-enough to make a stiff batter
EXTRA Nutrition: If you have a juicer, add the pulp from a carrots or other great veggies. Other items can be added, just adjust texture using more mix or liquid. Almond Milk is just as good as mango juice.
Bake about 30 minutes at 375 degrees.
Razzle Dazzle Grain Pudding
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Place all the ingredients in a pot. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes or until the cereal is creamy. Toward the end of the cooking time, stir occasionally to prevent scorching.
Birdie Cookies
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Mix into firm dough
roll into small balls, place on a lightly greased cookie sheet,
Bake at 325
for 20-30 minutes. Cool, refrigerate or freeze.
Sweet Potato Puffs
1) Cook one large sweet potato in the microwave on high for 8 to 10 minutes or until very soft. Split the skin, and scoop out the flesh. Mash it up well in a large bowl.
2) Add 1/3 of a very soft, ripe banana, being sure not to use any part of the banana that has brown spots.
3) Add one jar of any baby fruit and one jar of any baby vegetable. I like to use the ones that are a mixture, like sweet potato and applesauce, etc. Just seems like more flavor than a straight vegetable.
4) Add one cup of frozen peas or corn.
5) Add 1/3 or 1/4 cup of a natural peanut butter.
6) Add a little cinnamon. Since I never measure spices in my own cooking, I can't suggest how much to use.
Mix it up well. It will be a sticky mess at this point, but it will roll up into balls, or you can also use an ice cream scoop.
Pour out some Grape Nuts cereal onto waxed paper, then roll each ball in the cereal until it is well covered. Put them into a container and then into the freezer.
I put three at a time in my microwave, set it on defrost for about 45 seconds to one minute. The time will depend upon how many you defrost at a time, and how "hot" your microwave is. Be sure that they are warm clear through, as sweet potatoes are heavy and take longer to get warm. Also, be VERY sure not to burn your fingers when you are breaking them up into the birds' dishes.
Big Peanut-butter Cheerio
String a bunch of Cheerios through a pipe cleaner leaving one inch at both ends. Twist the ends together to form a hookends. Spread some peanut butter onto the Cheerios (not too much but JUST ENOUGH for the seeds to stay). Dip the ring into a bunch of seeds. Hang the hooked end of the ring on the top of your bird cage--or snip the hook with scissors so you may put the ring through your bird's perch.
Bird Candy
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Combine all ingredients together, adding more honey if desired until a thick seed mixture is made. Spoon onto a baking tray and flatten it out. Leave out in the sunshine, covered in plastic wrap, for 2 hours until almost firm. Put about 3 tablespoons full of bird candy into a bird safe bowl.
Birdie Bars
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 F. In large bowl, combine cereals, add other ingredients and mix well. Spray 13 x 9 x 2 inch baking pan with nonstick spray. Bake for 30 minutes (until tester inserted in center comes out clean).
Remove from pan and let cool on rack. Cut into 16 bars. Wrap each bar in plastic and freeze.
Birdie Peanut Butter Balls
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Make small balls from peanut butter and roll in grapenuts and/or seed. You can use any kind of cereal, like cheerios, and crush them up in pieces but not like dust.
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