In case you missed it on my Home page – here are 3 new snack recipes …
3 Snackaroos
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Another HUGE hit! Pickles’ Petites …
Pickles’ Petites
1/2 cup uncooked oats
1 cup flour (I used brown rice flour)
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup flax seeds
1/4 cup chia seeds
1/4 cup hemp hearts
1/4 cup sesame seeds
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup broken almonds
1/2 cup dried pomegranate seeds
2 beaten eggs, with or without shell
1/2 cup almond butter (or other nut butter)
1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
water if needed
You can substitute any of the seeds that you might not have for this recipe. Or add more of one kind to make up for what you don’t have. You can use any kind of flour – i keep a good stock of healthy flours such as brown rice, potato, corn, coconut etc. Health stores carry so many different types now – often you can find them in your supermarket too. Some flours absorb moisture more than others so you may have to adjust wet ingredients.
Stir oats, flour and baking powder together. Add all the seeds, broken almonds and pomegranate. Stir eggs, almond butter and applesauce in separate bowl and then add to dry ingredients. You should have a fairly dry mixture, only wet enough to stick together. Add water if too dry – add more oats if too wet. Spoon onto a greased baking sheet as large or small as you would like – these will stick if you don’t. Bake at 400 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes, until they start to brown on the edges.
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This is a recipe that Mom made for Neeka Dog but i like them too!
Turkey/Sweet Potato Cookies
1 cup water
2 cups cooked turkey
1 cup Sweet potato, cooked until soft
1 tbsp molasses
2 cups old fashioned oatmeal (not cooked)
3 dozen Cranberries, fresh or frozen (optional)
Cut the turkey into small pieces and put it with the water in a food processor or blender. Process until it is a smooth, thick paste consistency with no meat chunks.
Add the sweet potato and molasses and process again.
Pour the mixture into a large bowl and add the oatmeal. Mix well to form a soft ball. If it is too wet, add a little more oatmeal, if it’s too dry then add a bit more water.
Spoon the dough onto your dehydrator trays and if desired, put a cranberry on top of each one, pressing slightly so it will stay. (I pressed each cookie down with a fork before adding a berry.)
Dry 4 – 5 hours or until completely dry but not crispy. (It took about 7 hours on the meat setting for me to get the hard consistency that i wanted.)
(I ended up with 43 cookies. Small ones, for a small dog)
Note: You can substitute blueberries for cranberries (which i did) and white potatoes for the sweet potatoes if desired. (If you don’t have a dehydrator, you could use your oven – just google how to use the oven to dehydrate food.)
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This is my favorite snack now!!!
Lady Pim’s Parrot Muffins
1 c. flour – brown, potato, rice or whatever type of healthy flour
1/2 cups uncooked oats
1/3 cup Hemp Hearts (see below for substitutions)
1/4 cup uncooked quinoa
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
2 eggs, with or without shell. I leave the shell in.
1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 mashed bananas
1/2 cup of almond butter – or any other nut butter, such as peanut butter with no sugar or salt added
1 cup mixed veggies of your choice. I used frozen peas and corn.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Mix the dry ingredients and then add the rest. If mixture is too dry, slowly add a little water at a time. You want this mixture to be fairly dry though – just wet enough that it will all stick together.
Lightly grease small muffin tins and spoon mixture into each one. They won’t rise much, if at all, so you can fill them right up, or above the edges.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until the tops start to brown and get a little crunchy.
Let cool for a few minutes then pop them out.
I place them all on a rack and then put the rack in the freezer overnight to freeze and the next morning i put them is separate smaller ziplock bags and put them in a larger ziplock bag.
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If you don’t have hemp hearts – (I suggest you buy some as they are extremely healthy for both people and birds and parrots love them) – substitute any sort of nut, broken up fairly fine, or grape nuts, or seeds, or something like flax or chia seeds. Use your imagination.
mmmmmm. I’m not all that crazy about the actual meat of the papaya, but i sure love those seeds!
Skewers! This is how my mom gets me to eat fruit and veggies that i don’t really like – because i have to kill them all and rip it all to shreds. And, unfortunately, i end up swallowing some of it! But, she also makes skewers with stuff i like too. She likes it because she says it keeps me very busy for awhile.
If you still have Mountain Ash Berries on the trees where you live – make sure your birdies get some in their bowl. Or, better yet, give them a whole branch!
If you have any awesome birdie recipes that you would love to share – please submit them!
I will update this at some point but in the meantime, this is a favorite of mine! But only a rare treat because Mom’s stingy. 😦
Just cut some banana slices, put some organic peanut butter in the middle and place a Cheerio or nut on top.
