PLEASE I NEED RECIPES!

[xXxEmilixXx]

Hi, could you PLEASE give me some of your recipes? I have been searching for some and I can't seem to find any. Preferably involving actual cooking? i.e the oven?



thx!

[Wai]

You don't really have to go through all the trouble of making recipes. I just throw in all the raw ingredients into the food dish and let the crabbies choose whatever they want to eat.

[Hermie's rule]

There's a ton of recipes on this site. www.epicurean-hermit.com I'll hunt around on there and pull up some for you.

French Toast

Let the end of a loaf of challah or other crab-safe bread go old and stale. Tear off chunks about the size of a quarter, one for each serving you will be making. Beat 1 organic egg with:1/2 tsp. 4-algae powder, 1 tsp of cod liver oil.When well mixed, soak the bread chunks until green and gooey.Warm a teaspoon of coconut oil in a small saute pan, over low heat.When the oil is hot, drop the soaked bread in the pan. Cook about 15-20 seconds on a side, enough to set it, but not cook the middle.Put in serving bowl, sprinkle with chopped dried calendula and red clover blossoms, and crushed rosehips. Garnish with thinly sliced apple.



Hermie Fruit Salad

I cut a slice off a huge cucumber grown by my neighbors and put the papaya and one cherry on top of the cucumber. I got a little packed of Blossom Burst from the addiction store and sprinkled that on top with a little bit of sunflower petal cuttlebone and put a dried candula flower right in the middle. They made a mess of the bowl as usual letting my know they loved it


Crabby Patties

Thaw 2 coconut water ice cubes. Add 2-3 Tbl. Bob's Red Mill Old Country Style Muesli*
Soak all day. Pour off excess liquid.

Kibble soggy muesli with:

2 clams
1/2 tsp. kelp powder
1-2 Tbl. cornmeal (enough to make the muesli less wet)

Shape into patties. Cook slowly over very low heat in coconut oil until just set enough to hold together.

Garnish with julienned raw red bell pepper.

Dessert:

Kibble some old red grapes with some cantaloupe. Top with dried calendula.

Bon appetit!




You'd have to go on there and look around some. They have some fantastic recipes. Whew, I sure wish that I had my hermies back so I can go and cook some for them.

[emmac350]

I just save little bits of whatever I'm making for dinner. If I'm making a veggie casserole, I'll save a little bit of onion, pepper, zucchini, eggplant, and yellow squash and give that to them. If I'm having tacos, I'll save a little piece of the ground turkey before we spice it, spinach, pineapple, tomato. With the veggies, I'll just take it from the ends that we don't use anyways, cut it into pieces, and save the leftovers.

We cut fresh pineapples on a regular basis, so when we do we'll put the bottom piece that you cut off into the tank that day, taking it out the next day. I saved all the other outside pieces (they have the outside of the pineapple on one side and pineapple flesh on the other side) from one of the times we cut one and cut it into smaller chunks and have it frozen for whenever I feel like giving it to them.

I have sauteed some shrimps in olive oil with a little bit of lime juice (and some of the insides of the lime fruit) and frozen those individually as well.

One time I took little pieces of chicken and cooked them with dried orange pieces (I dry a lot of fruits) and honey.

The big thing is to give your crabs a balanced diet. A list of "food groups" for your crabs can be found at [url]http://www.hermitcrabparadise.com/ ... ups#p21207[/url]

[Zacshack174]

I found that using bread and soaking it in honey makes it honey bread. the bread soaks it up like a sponge.

[emmac350]

Zac,

I'm not sure if bread's actually good for crabs. I make my own on a monthly basis-ish, and some of the ingredients in bread (namely salt, yeast, and baking powder/baking soda are suspect. I did some searching on the safe food list over at http://www.epicurean-hermit.com and posted to see if anyone does use bread. It is not on the safe list (well, the safe list includes "Wasa All-Natural Crispbread (Oat Flavor)") but it isn't on the unsafe list. If you keep using bread (as it isn't known to be UNsafe, please keep us informed of your crabs' health over a few months or even up to a year. Do your crabs seem to act differently after eating it? Have you had any unexplained deaths? We could probably get them to do a food trial (with you participating in it - maybe this could be included with your schooling somehow?) about bread if you've had no problems so far with it. How long have you offered it to your crabs?

[ladybug15057]

But to do a food trial and to know if it is the food if something would happen... all other criteria need to be met and in order. (Ex: one cannot be using table salt and would need to wait to make sure the effects were not due to using the salt)

[Zacshack174]

Oh I thought bread was safe. And I don't use table salt. It says non-iodine Natural Sea Salt.
From what I see they haven't eaten it yet but they seem to love the cucumber and bloodworms I gave them last night.

[Wai]

Oh I thought bread was safe. And I don't use table salt. It says non-iodine Natural Sea Salt.
From what I see they haven't eaten it yet but they seem to love the cucumber and bloodworms I gave them last night.

However, I suspect that it is not iodine in salt that makes it deadly. Iodine is present in both table and sea salt. Rather, I believe that it's the anti-caking agents in table salt that are toxic to hermit crabs.

Besides, why feed bread when there are other approved safer foods out there? Spirulina is a good example.

[Zacshack174]

Oh man are you serious?! anti caking agents is in the salt I use! I better dump that out right away!! Too bad I won't be able to get sea salt anytime soon then..