 Sniffers, flighters and hatchlings. My name is Marlene McCohen and I'm Tracy and this is Rocky Oh you came into frame for the introduction. How amazing is that Tracy? This is Leo and we may have some other visitors today but before we do we want to welcome you to Parrot Chop Chef. In this episode we're going to be making a spaghetti squash kale bolt for your birds but don't forget to stay till the end of the episode to see how we turn this dish for your birds into something completely different and an amazing meal for you. That's what Tracy's here for. You can check her out on results with Tracy on Instagram. Tracy has been an amazing influence on me and changed my eating habits and made me much healthier and happier so I thought who better to have on this show and partner with than my best friend Tracy. So here we go Tracy what are we doing today? Okay so today we are going to do the kale bolt and so what I've already done just because it's it's a little bit messy I took the spaghetti squash this is the raw side cut it in half and I for the birds scraped out the insides and the seeds in a spaghetti squash are totally safe for birds to eat so this is what it looks like when you scrape it out. Ooh nice so what's next Tracy? Broccoli. Okay we've also pre-chopped it. Wow you pre-chopped the broccoli isn't that like cheating shouldn't you be like chopping up this broccoli what if I don't know how to chop broccoli? If you don't know how to chop broccoli grab a knife chop it up. This is the broccoli that is here to show you before we chopped it but I want to tell you guys something actually I'm going to say great we bought chop broccoli okay so that's just something you could do I the reason I want to let you guys in on the secrets is clearly because I don't want to make anything hard for you this shouldn't be so difficult if you need to go by organic or non-organic or whatever you can to make it easier for you this is chopped even if it says wash make sure you wash it yourself. We're also not really following any particular order because it's all getting mixed so I'm going to go with spinach. Are you going to be chopping the spinach? Yes. Can I help you drop the spinach? Just like I want to see if I enjoy this at all. Okay go. Put your hand on top. Why? Because you want to chop up your hand. What are you doing? Okay let's do it together. Okay I'm chopping spinach. You know what I actually I like the feeling of the knife on my hand here because it's just too much pressure for my hands. Wow and also as I learned last episode if you chop spinach too finely it becomes wilted. Correct? Yes yes yes yes it gets a weird bruise. That is the professional job. I got to say this looks really good. It's pretty good. Yeah this is really pretty it's very green. Okay get the chopping the kale. Do you want me to like tell you if you're doing it wrong? I think this other knife is here for me. Should I get my own cutting board? Yeah. Okay well I've prepared it for you. Full medley carrot mix. Why do we like color? Because it's aesthetically pleasing for the birds. I find that birds prefer things that are yellow especially parrots because a lot of the fruits that they eat in the wild yellow signifies ripeness. Hey this is yellow. It's cool right? Can the birds have the circles? What do you mean by that? Like this is a circle. So what you think they only eat squares or what's the whole question there? I didn't know if I need to make it smaller for them. Oh that's actually a good question. If I had a cockatiel or maybe a parakeet you would want to chop these up a lot more yeah and because cockatiels and parakeets generally can't really pick up their food they got to rely on what's in the bowl so the more finely chopped like this broccoli that's like perfect for them. This is looking really good. Yeah right? I think also cooking should be fun so if you are in the mood to make something and you can choose purple carrots and yellow carrots versus just the regular orange I mean do that it might motivate you a little bit a little good Instagram photos. Tracy it looks like you just added something to notify the audience about it what is that? Rob pumpkin seeds this is tarragon I already prepared it by pulling at like the tarragon leaves and the dill and all that little part we're gonna use off of the step. I like to chop it all together because it just combines the flavors. I was gonna say a lot of chopping going on here but I mean that's what you're doing for carrots. Wow so now we've added the herbs and now we still have more herbs well we have herb we have another herb basil and we also found these really cute edible safe for everyone flowers. You might find them in your garden. Karen do you mind? Marigolds you can find them in your garden don't pick them from someone else's garden because why is that bad? Okay so if you want to add any flowers for garnish make sure you really do your research on what flowers are good for birds and acceptable but also make sure that none of it comes from a garden that is treated with chemicals. Put everything in the bowl. Can I do the mixing? Yes let me do that. Ooh what's that squash? So now we're tossing the mix oh my god it looks so beautiful. Tracy's gonna decide if I mixed it up enough and then for the fun part for your birds we are bringing back the squash and we're making this squash bowl so this is your spaghetti squash kale bowl essentially. Yay look at this. Pack it in there. Oh pack it in yeah. Is our final product for the birds which is a spaghetti squash kale bowl which Brenda just loves and I'm really excited to see how the birds are going to try it but check it out this is not over yet we're going to show you how to change this up a little bit and make it an amazing meal for you. We're here going through our spaghetti squash kale bowl Tracy's gonna tell us what she did to prepare the other side of it to turn it into an amazing healthy meal for you. So I baked the other half at 400 degrees for 30 minutes with a little bit of olive oil salt pepper and then when it came out of the oven I scraped it as I did with that one. So now what are we going to do with this Tracy? We're going to take this which acts kind of like a pasta spaghetti squash we're going to add it to the mix and we're going to saute it up. Okay so let's do that come on just dump this in right now yeah oh that's exciting so this is going to be like a spaghetti squash saute fun in this I don't know what this is going to be looks like it's we're going to mix it up so all of these vegetables and herbs saute really nicely yeah and we'll probably just add some we'll saute it in olive oil so it's not that you can't be what we're about to make to the birds but it's always best to feed your birds in the most raw form without the olive oil and without all of those things so we're making things a little more exciting where you can accomplish two things in one even though we're about to saute this for ourselves I want you guys to notice that we do not use any non-stick or any teflon pans or any imposter teflon pans so you always want to make sure your pans are ceramic stainless steel or iron cast pans I should mention this is also which you probably figured out vegan and low carb okay so we already added the olive oil to the pan and now we have our mix and we're just going to kind of scoop it I think they've cooked down so it looks like a lot but it's going to the longer you cook them they cook down we don't want to cook it for so long because we're not we're still kind of trying to keep shape but we do want to just get everything nice and close to you you can also drizzle some olive oil in your mix before you add it to the pan and that way kind of keeps it kind of coated as you're adding there's not like a specific time that you should cook this it's not like cook for 15th it's your preference I am choosing to cook it until I see that everything has kind of just been almost at the point where it starts to like shrink in size I'm kind of like pressing in and separating the chunks as I go and I'm just going to turn down the heat a little bit because we're near the end the more vibrant the food is that you eat so like the more colorful it is the darker the greens it's a good trick to know that the darker the greens the healthier the means now the pan is still hot so when you turn the fire off it's still at a temperature that it's slightly cooking it so you could just stir it a little bit more but turn off the heat when you feel like you've reached the point of readiness if you like feta you put out a little feta once you put it on your plate and then the warmth will kind of melt the feta I know we added goat cheese to our salad last time that's also a great cheese okay marlott's ready oh my god so shall we try it yeah let's try it okay it's a try it Rocky do you mind if I put you down just so I could give this our full attention to sum it up guys we have just made a spaghetti squash kale bowl and then fed it to our birds who clearly enjoyed it and then turned it into a spaghetti squash sautee for ourselves and it's amazing I wouldn't lie to you guys you would see it on my face I wouldn't be able to eat it I will say for those of you who like cheese and are not avoiding dairy some goat cheese added to it would make it mind-blowing rain you can also spice it up a little bit with a few more spices here and there if you like to do that I actually loved it like this if you want to make it spicy you could add a little bit of curry that's actually my forte believe it or not right Tracy that is my forte that is it for today so let us know in the comments what you would like to see us make next and also what your favorite part of this video is don't forget to go back and check out our last recipe video and also I hope you guys are looking forward to the next one because we are ready to make some exciting meals for your birds and then turn it into something really cool for you we want to thank you for watching parrot chop chef and don't forget to subscribe and hit that notification button so you won't miss out on an exciting meal for you and your bird we love you guys so much bye