Well, My Husband liked the birdie bread!

[PicklesParrot]

I made birdie bread last night for the first time ever! Also, Last night I made a huge pot of vegetarian chili for dinner. Hubby comes home from work, ravenous as usual, so I tell him to go ahead and get a bowl and start eating, I'll be right there. I hear him shout to me from the dining room "Dang baby this cornbread is awesome!" And I'm thinking to myself "what cornbread? I didnt make cornbread." When I finally sit down at the table I realized.... He had cut himself a big piece from the birdie bread and started digging in with his chili! LOL!!!! He LOVED IT! I started laughing and told him what it was the look on his face was priceless! He looks up all terrified and says meekly "Oh no, am I going to be ok? Can I eat this? Whats in it?" Poor guy! But, I reassured him it's ok, it was all natural and all food we eat normally. SO FUNNY!!!! I'll include my recipe below. I'm not a baking person so I was worried I'd mess it up. But, with all the lovely suggestions from people in this forum, I whipped it up and it came out amazing. Mr. Pickles LOVES it, and so does Hubby! I won't lie, I snuck a piece for myself as well. So tasty!


I got this mix from Whole Foods : Glutino Yankee Cornbread - Gluten Free
Ingredients in mix: Corn Meal, White Rice Flour, Baking Soda, Salt

Directions on Box:
1 bag cornbread mix
1/4 cup of sugar
1 1/3 cup of buttermilk
1 egg slightly beaten
6 tbspn butter

Mix it all up and bake at 425.

Obviously I'm not going to feed my bird, sugar, butter, or buttermilk. So I adapted the recipe to this below:

My Bird Recipe:

-1 bag cornbread mix
-puree from 1 kiwi and 1/2 mango
-1 egg beaten
-instead of water I poured 2 small baby food jars (pear and blueberries/Mango and carrots - Organic with no additives other than citric and absorbic acid) into my measuring cup, and then added water to thin it out and equal the 1 1/3 cup water from the original recipe
-6 tbspn coconut oil instead of butter
-1/2 apple chopped to tiny pieces
- 1/4 papaya chopped to tiny pieces
- about 3 tbspn papaya seeds
- 1/2 cup flax seeds

Mixed it all up good and baked it at 425 for about 30 minutes. From all the fruit it was so sweet and delicious! I might actually make this when thanksgiving comes around this year and surprise my family! It tasted like good ole grandmas southern cornbread!

I served this to Mr. Pickles with some chopped grapes and sliced bananas on top and he just went NUTS over it!

 

[MarciaLove]

HAHAH! I could so see my dad doing that XD

 

[JerseyWendy]

HILARIOUS!!!!

The recipe sounds AWESOME!

Thanks so much for sharing (other than with your husband).

 

[Grinder]

That's hilarious. Looking at the recipe - it does sound good for us human folk to eat too.

 

[marjs29]

I thought salt of any kind is not good for birds. Your story is funny. Has your Hubby learned the step up and step down command? LOL

 

[ruffledfeathers]

That is soooo funny. i can just picture thinking 'what cornbread???' hahaha. i would have fallen over laughing so hard.

 

[brianlinkles]

Ha! My husband did the same thing however my recipe was not as kind, I had chopped up pellets in mine!

 

[davisn456]

I would totally try your birdie bread myself, it sounds very good. A few weeks ago, I tried making Frankie some pasta and beans with a few veggies mixed in. She didn't like it very well...so, I had leftovers and wasn't sure what to do with it. So, I made pasta salad. It was excellent!

 

[MissyMe83]

Lol, yeah that birdie bread sounds pretty freaking fantasitc. Not to mention I'm starving right now.

 

[BillsBirds]

Except for seed mix and pellets, my birds eat the same food that I do everyday. I come from a long line of bakers and bird lovers, so, "birdy bread", is almost the same as my grandmother baked for us, and her birds, so long ago.