Cooking with Kitty!

Welcome to Cooking with Kitty!!!  :o)

Today Kitty and I tried a new recipe, which can be used as a meal or as a treat.  If you would like to try it, all you need are the following three ingredients:

1 lb. of lean ground turkey

2 cups of brown rice

1 cup of fresh cilantro

Directions:

Boil brown rice.  The boil-in-bag kind works really well for this recipe.

Rinse and chop cilantro.

Once rice is done, mix with ground turkey and cilantro to form patties or meatballs.

Place patties on cookie sheet and place in oven at 350 degrees. 

(You may want to place foil on the cookie sheet since the patties will stick to the pan a bit.)

When the patties are done, you may crumble one into your dog’s food bowl as a special meal, or you may break the patty into pieces and use as training treats.  Either way your dog will love it! 

Since you have used no seasonings and the ingredients are all healthy, it should be safe for your dog to eat.  However, you should always use your best judgment when feeding your dog. 

One great thing about this recipe is that you can use the same ingredients to feed your family as well.  To “humanize” the recipe, add a bit of olive oil to a frying pan and let the patties cook until well done.  You may add salt, pepper and other seasonings to your liking.  I must admit, it is quite tasty… (At least I thought so...)

Add a salad or other vegetables as a side, and you’ve got yourself a quick meal … for you AND your dog!  (After I made Kitty’s treats today, I also cooked myself a couple of patties and took them to work for my lunch.  J)

By the way, the cookies I posted a picture of yesterday are also suitable for human consumption.  The only thing that makes them “dog” treats is that I made them with my dog’s health in mind.  They do not have the added ingredients that humans add to their own snacks (i.e. sugar, salt, white flour, etc.)   All ingredients were natural and organic.  For the peanut butter cookies, I used rice flour, organic peanut butter, and flax seed oil.  For the apple cookies, I used real apple as well as unsweetened organic applesauce, rice flour, flax seed and flax seed oil.  So, people can definitely eat them. They probably just wouldn’t really want to.  They don’t taste bad.  I think my cousin put it best when she said they taste like baby food—not gross, just bland.  

But Kitty didn't seem to mind one bit.  She acted like they were they best cookies she'd ever eaten.  

And today she almost knocked me down trying to get me to give her more of her turkey patties.  I am probably very lucky that she only weighs 4 pounds... If not I would have probably suffered some severe injuries from all the jumping around she was doing.  

And now after comparing these wholesome ingredients to all the "stuff" that goes into dog food, I am becoming more and more reluctant to try and feed her dog food any more...