Sweet Potato Mash Balls

I found this recipe on a forum I frequent, and this has now become a constant staple in my household!

http://video.about.com/birds/Sweet-Potato-Mash-for-Birds.htm

It's a very simple recipe. Boil a mixture of chopped, peeled sweet potato, carrot, butternut squash, pumpkin, etc in just enough water to cover. When veggies are soft enough to mash, use a slotted spoon to pull them out and set aside for mashing. Add enough water to the leftover cooking water to equal 2 cups, and bring to boil. Add 1 cup quinoa and cover, cook until soft. Remove cover and let cooking liquid cook out. Mix in with the mashed vegetables. Add in some chopped greens (I prefer cilantro, or kale, etc). I also like to mix in flax seed, chia seed, organic coconut flakes.

Roll into little balls. In a seperate bowl, add dry flaked oatmeal. Roll the little balls in the oatmeal, and then you are set! These freeze great!

Green for Halloween!

Quinoa, lentils, fresh carrots and spinach, and frozen peas and corn. Cooked with ginger, red palm oil and lots of avi-greens supplement. Looks really gross, but the birds liked it!

For one dinner for the caiques, I cooked the base part of a butternut squash, and stuffed it with some of this mash, with a seed mix, organic coconut flakes, and pomegranite seeds. Yum!