It was my turn to cook dinner the other night and since I was feeling a bit uninspired, I decided to default to my specialty, spaghetti bolognese. You can never go wrong with a spag bol, and it went down a treat. I had quite a lot of fresh tomatoes left over afterward, as I … Read more
Sweet, spicy cinnamon- yum! We love it on our favorite desserts, breakfast goodies, and even our lattes. In Hawaii they are lucky to have many cinnamon trees growing around to harvest cinnamon bark. They also have some wild parrots flying about the canopy from time to time. I was talking to a friend who was … Read more
I was out at a Mexican restaurant with some friends the other day and we got chatting, as we often do, about our bird’s diet—we are all parrot lovers! I’ve always enjoyed spicy food, but I’ve never shared any of it with my cockatiels because I assumed the spice would be too much for them. … Read more
We took a road trip down to the southern coast recently to a palm beach, and there was a guy there selling all different varieties of freshly picked coconut. I’ve always loved the taste of coconut in anything, but I’d never seen a whole one like that. I had to buy a couple and take … Read more
I was out at a sunflower farm the other day for a tour. It was a really great day and the whole family enjoyed it, and the best part was we got to take home a big bag of sunflower seeds at the end of the day! I love sunflower seeds and I’m always chewing … Read more
As delicious as the flavor of lemon is, it’s not something many of us just eat by itself. We usually apply this same logic to our pets. We can’t and won’t eat lemons on their own because their so sour, so neither can our parrots. What about conures, though? Can they eat lemons? Yes, conures … Read more