sweetrsue
03-24-2009, 02:27 PM
The last batch of beans I made turned out all mushy. My Daughter came over when the beans were at the halfway point in cooking. I just shut the pot off figuring I'd get back to what I was doing after she left. Well when I got back to it the beans were cooked thru. I guess just the heat that was in them continued cooking them. Well I still hadn't added the rice and the quinoa. I Usually do That in the last 25 minutes for the rice and last 10 minutes for the quinoa. So I had to get it boiling again to finish up those steps. I did that and the result was something like re fried beans. Not quite that mushy but certainly not solid. The first time I used it it seemed fine but yesterday they ate very little. So I decided to take a couple of my containers and put them in my food processor. I added a little flax oil and some more pellets. It just wasn't moving much in the food processor so I added white grape juice. This got it moving. In the end I had something that looked exactly like re fried beans with fruit pellets in it. Well this they wouldn't even touch! I had a couple of brave souls try it but the flew of as soon as they tasted it. Ok well I didn't want the rest of this batch to go to waste! I still had a bowl with almost 3 cups of good healthy stuff. So I got out some natural pellets, some corn meal, a couple of eggs and a bit of flour and mixed it up with a dough hook. Once again it was too dry to mix so in went more grape juice and 4 more eggs. Now I had batter! I thought it would look prettier with more pellets so in they went as well. This stuff just kept growing! I didn't have any muffin tins but I had one tin that had those little shell shapes. I know they have a name but I can't think of it. What I ended up with in the bowl made more than 3 dozen of these little shell shaped birdy treats. I put one in the aviary to see how well received they would be and they ate the whole thing in the time it took me to write this. I think I have a hit! Plus since it's dry I don't have so much too worry about it. They won't sit in the aviary and grow bacteria!