What's on today's menu & recipe sharing ~2009~

crabbymommie · Post by **crabbymommie** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:43 pm

I want to start making my own dried staple food. I have got everything else down but I have no idea where to start with this one.

Thanks,
crabbymommie

Xena · Post by **Xena** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:37 pm

crabbymommie wrote:I want to start making my own dried staple food. I have got everything else down but I have no idea where to start with this one.

Thanks,
crabbymommie

What ambition! I believe someone on here started doing their own as well after buying a food dehydrator...

Tetracolor · Post by **Tetracolor** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:48 pm

Dish #1:
Cucumber, carrots, and green bell pepper

Dish #2:
Clams (first time ever for my gang!)

Dish #3:
Oatmeal, made with collard greens, strawberries, and honey

They're digging it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:28 pm

Mixed Greens Salad of Fresh Dandelion leaves, red clover and dried bladderwrack dressed with a little fish oil

Sliced persimmon with millet puffs.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:43 am

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:32 pm

Creole Gumbo: I mixed a little dehydrated red bellpepper with The Crabbage Patch 'Surf & Turf'. Then I added some freezedried chicken and mysis shrimp, plus a sprinkle of kelp granules. Added a little dechlor water, and microwaved for about 7 seconds.

Boy does it stink! My crew will probably love it!

For dessert I spread out a disk of worm castings in a small shell, and sprinkled ground cuttlebone on top and patted it down like a crust. Then I added some diced green apples drizzled with honey. It looks like a little apple tart!

Xena · Post by **Xena** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:44 am

Last night was one shell with can-o-shrimp (river) and can-o-cricket, which was another smash success for some! Another shell had krill, and I watched as one of the crabs literally snatched one of them up and dragged it off and was devouring it...and the main shell had freeze-dried banana and apricot sprinkled with spirulina...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:55 pm

Seafarer's Supper: I mixed dried purple and green seaweed with Bladderwrack, Rooibos, Spirulina powder, Kelp granules and little snips from a sea sponge. I garnished with a 'sea cookie' from The Crabbage Patch (it's a tiny sand dollar!)

For a midnight snack I put in a small shell of 'mixed nuts': pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, safflower seeds, sesame seeds, millet, walnuts, sunflower seeds and dusted it with psyllium powder.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:13 pm

Walnut/Shrimp unStir Fry: Baby Shrimps on a bed of celery leaves, diced celery, brocolli and shredded carrot sprinkled with walnuts.

For dessert: A bowl of 'pudding': cuttlebone powder mixed with buckwheat honey and a couple of apple/beet flatbread cookies from THHC!

Dog Lips · Post by **Dog Lips** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:08 pm

Coconut, Scrambled eggs (White, yolk and shell!) and, Bananas, Grapes, Cuttlebone and of course....Apple ''pudding'' mixed with Baby food and Lettuce.

They LOOOOOVE It!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:10 am

So my husband was out of town, and my live-at-my-house niece was out and about so I was kinda bored - so I made sushi for my crabs!

When my niece got home and saw me fixing a little tiny bowl of rice, she just rolled her eyes and said "That's for the hermies, isn't it??" and laughed.

My recipe for Wa-mu sushi

Spread a layer of sushi rice on a piece of saran wrap
add a layer of purple seaweed
add a row of freezedried meal worms
add some grated carrot

Roll the sushi and coat with sesame seeds - slice and serve!
I only put one slice in the crabitat tonight, so froze the others - I don't know if it'll defrost well - but we'll see!

Here's a picture of how it turned out:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6831/023n.jpg

MudCrabDude · Post by **MudCrabDude** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:04 am

Hankie wrote:...Here's a picture of how it turned out:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6831/023n.jpg

Wow. That looks really nice.

As for me, just a couple of pieces of shattered coconut (shells, meat and fibers) sprinkled with the Colorado Care Co. Crab Kibble.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:29 pm

Fresh Pineapple, NarNar's PBJ Kibble, and some freeze dried bloodworm and shrimp medley.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:16 pm

Hermie Omelet: Break one egg into a plastic cup and crush the shell into it. With a plastic fork, stir up the yolk, white and shell really good. Microwave for 20 seconds - stir again - microwave for 20 more seconds - stir again. Spoon out a portion into your food dish and sprinkle with freezedried krill and bee pollen!

Serve with Fresh Apple Crisp: Slice green apple in small hermit bite sized chunks. Sprinkle with rolled oats and drizzle with honey.

Dog Lips · Post by **Dog Lips** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:31 pm

Dead crickets and meal worms sautayed in honey, Oyster shells and Cuttle bone. And some mango and grape on the side.

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