Orange basil chicken

I like to cook and do so most nights. Occasionally my wife takes the reigns, but the kitchen is my refuge. Unfortunately I often share the space with my cockatoo. And it’s unfortunate because she is mischievous when at her best. This is one of the points I like to drive home when someone thinks they might like an exotic bird. Do you really want a perpetual two year old in your home at all times and a destructive one at that? Luckily we found that she enjoys shredding cardboard boxes, small ones. She does her shredding most often behind the microwave out of sight of curious eyes. But on occasion she ventures out to see what I’m cooking and if she is interested in a taste.

Baubo is supposed to be a vegetarian, but she has cultivated a taste for meat. Mostly for beef, but she won’t turn her nose up to chicken, which does not make her a cannibal since they are completely different species. Okay, it makes her a bit of a cannibal. Her diet is not conducive to long life and it contributes to other unhealthy lifestyle activities. These other activities are very complicated so a whole blog post will later be dedicated to Baubo’s unhealthy lifestyle choices. I can say now, while discussing her eating habits that Baubo’s diet is missing the essential fruits and vegetables that most large birds eat. She will eat some nutritional pellets and nuts, but her love is peanut butter and meat. I try to put good food into her food dish in the mornings in hopes that some nutrition will rub off onto her beak as she picks the items out and drops them to the floor.