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Fruity Fish & Flowers II
dried calendula (about 2 tsp.)
dried chamomile (about 1 tsp.)
coconut chunk
large papaya chunk
pink flame rose bud
Kibble and place in the serving dish.
Air-pop about 1 Tbl. amaranth
shred some dulse
1 Tbl. Flott tuna
1 tsp rolled oats
large pinch dandelion root
large pinch dried dandelion leaf.
Kibble and place on top of the fruit dish, sort of a reverse-chutney.
Star Fruit Surprise
Part One: Fruit Salad
1 Tbl. dried pumpkin seed
1 chunk skin-on red delicious apple
6-8 raisins
chunk of old banana
lg. pinch of dried calendula
1 tsp. red clover seed
1 tsp. dried hibiscus flowers
5 sunflower sprouts
1 drop honey
Kibble, garnish with slice of starfruit.
Part Two: Crunchy Eggs Variant
Kibble:
1/2 eggshell
2 baby carrots
several 1 inch squares of dried nori
1 tsp. hempseed
Cook lightly in coconut oil over low heat until carrot starts to
soften. Add beaten egg and cook gently until just set.
Put in bowl next to Starfruit Surprise, garnish all with some
popcorn popped in coconut oil. Serve!
Copepod Quiche
Preheat oven to 425.
3-4 amaranth graham crackers
1 tsp. melted coconut oil
1-2 tsp. soymilk
Mix well until soggy but still firm. Press into a ceramic serving
dish. I use the Petco ones — you can see them in several of the
pictures in the photo album, approx. 3 inches in diameter and half an
inch deep.
Bake for about 5 minutes, until crust is firming up.
1 egg (discard half to two thirds of the white)
2 tsp. soy milk
pinch of Esprit du Sel (mortared & pestled)
1 heaping teaspoon dried copepods
1/2 tsp. kelp powder
crushed dried jasmine flowers (about 6)
1/2 tsp. rooibos
Mix well, pour into crust. Bake about 8 minutes — it will puff up in
the middle when done — don’t leave it a second longer!
Cut into wedges for number of servings needed. This recipe is
freezable!
Garnish with 1/2 eggshell and sunflower sprouts.
Lazy Kibble
Yesterday’s persimmon slice (nicely leathery by now)
1 Tbl. wheat germ
1 Tbl. sunflower seeds
small mangrove rootlet
Krill Kibble with Chicken Marrow
8-10 thawed krill
coconut chunk
4-6 small blueberries
1 blackberry
1 tsp. dried bladderwrack
1 amaranth graham cracker
Garnish with dried persimmon slice and a smashed open chicken leg bone.
Crabby Joes Mach II
1 Eden Nori-Maki rice cracker
1 coconut chunk
2 cooked clams
3 thawed orange rose petals
3 blueberries
1 tsp. reconstituted arame (sea vegetable)
largish chunk of Semifreddi’s Challah
1 tsp. sunflower seed
1 Krill oil capsule, squeezed out
Weedfish Salad
1 tsp. Flott tuna
3 wilted dandelion heads
1 Tbl. wheat germ
coconut chunk
1/2 orange rosebud
Kibble, garnish with small wedge from extremely old orange, and
serve.
Kibbled
small mangrove root ball
1 banana chunk (going black)
1 old chunk of kiwi
1 dried bosc pear slice
1 Tbl. hempseed meal
Fruity Fish and Flowers
In the morning, heat 1/3 cup of coconut milk until hot in microwave
(about 45 seconds at 1100 watts).
Add 2-3 Tbl. barley, and soak all day long.
(In the evening) Kibble together with:
large papaya chunk
coconut chunk
dried persimmon slice
wilted red nasturtium blossom
4 wilted jasmine blossoms
1 pink/red rose bud
1 tsp. chlorella
large pinch red raspberry leaf
Top with thawed silversides, sprinkle with gomasio (sesame seed with
seasalt) and serve!
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1 steamed mussel
1 slice blood orange
1 slice uncooked winter squash w/ seeds
1 slice really old kiwi
overblown pink rose
Tonight’s kibble consists of
1 (thawed) yellow rose bud
4 (thawed) krill
3 blueberries
1 raspberry
1 Tbl. rolled oats
1 Tbl. pumpkin seed
1 tsp. kelp powder
1 drop honey
banana chunk
1/2 Wasa rolled oats crispbread, broken into bits with mortar and
pestle and soaked in coconut milk for five minutes
1 Tbl. coconut milk
Kibble
1/2 brown egg shell
2 tsp. Flott tuna
1 large fresh coconut chunk
1 tsp. flaxseed meal
1/2 tsp. four algae powder
1 tsp. bee pollen
1 tsp. rooibus
Mix with raw egg, cook until barely set in coconut oil over very low heat.