1
1/4 pounds meaty Lamb shank chops, or 1 1/4 pounds of meaty Lamb
shoulder chops, or 2 medium short-end Lamb shanks (makes Fantastic
gravy) -- or any meaty scrag ends of mutton with some bone for flavor.
(Yield should be approx. 3/4 to 1 pound of meat, after deboning).
900
grams (1 pound) potato flour (found at health food stores or
organic/health section of supermarkets like Loblaws and Dominion in
Canada, or Shaw's or Hannaford here in New England).
3 large cloves of fresh garlic (grated or
chopped).
1 teaspoon of rosemary leaves (fresh or
dried).
1 cup loosely packed with finely-chopped,
fresh parsley (remove stems).
3
large organic or free-range eggs. (If your dog has an egg allergy, just
leave out eggs, but up Lamb portion by 1/4 pound, plus up the simmering
spring gravy water by 1/4 cup ).
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil.
1 and 1/2 cups of spring water for
simmering.
Extra Spring water for making dough.
Directions
On
stove-top, using a heavy-bottomed saucepan that has a tight-fitting
lid, lightly brown Lamb chops or shanks in the olive oil with chopped
garlic plus rosemary.
Add
1 and 1/2 cups of spring water, bring to boil, then turn down heat to
Low/Low- Med. Fit pot-lid on tightly.
Simmer
for an hour or more until Lamb meat parts easily from the bone.
Save
all Lamb/garlicky/rosemary gravy from pot -- allowing it to cool to
room temp.
Meanwhile,
remove all meat from Lamb bones (poke out any marrow from Lamb shank
bones -- add to gravy). Discard cooked bones' - do not feed to dogs.
Chop
up Lamb meat finely. (Food-processor savvies can prepare most of this
in the food mixer.
In
a large bowl, add 'n mix chopped parsley to potato flour, saving a wee
bit of flour for rolling-out bikkies.
Then
add 'n mix finely chopped, de-boned Lamb meat.
Whisk
up eggs -- then add to mixture.
Next,
add cooled Lamb gravy.
Mix
up everything well -- gradually adding extra spring water
--(Carefully)-- until you have a thick-not-mushy, pliable, workable
cookie dough.
On
a
potato-floured board, roll out dough, into desired thickness. With
cookie cutters or knife, cut into desired shapes and sizes, pricking
each with a fork (or make small thumb imprint balls ).
Place
on non-stick cookie sheets in a preheated oven at 350 degrees F.
Bake
until golden brown and crispy. Baking time will vary according to oven
styles, bikkie thickness, size and shape, plus how crunchy you want the
bikkies.
When
ready, cool and store in a sealed container in fridge -- Keeps for a
couple of weeks.
¼ cup tomato paste or blended tomatoes
(about 3 – 4 tomatoes)
4 strings parsley
salt
2 liters
Directions Put the Beef bones in a big roasting pan
and roast them during 1
hour. Turn them every so often so they brown on all sides. Once done,
drain out the fat.
Put the roaster on the stove top burner and
turn the stove on at medium heat. Add in ½ cup of water and loosen up
the meat from roaster. Make sure to loosen all the browned bits left on
the roaster. Keep all these drippings.
In a large pot, heat up
the oil over medium heat. Add in the baby cabbage , celery, and the
carrots, cook the baby cabbage too until they are transparent, make
sure to stir constantly. Add in the roasted Beef bones, the reserved
dripping from the roaster, tomato paste, parsley, salt, and the water.
Bring all these ingredients to a boil over high heat and let it simmer
covered for 2 hours.
To
use as a broth, strain the whole mixture, let it cool, and refrigerate.
Take off any fat from the surface and either refrigerate this or freeze
it.
To make soup, take out the Beef bones, and pour the vegetables over
some kibbles.
Directions Fully cook chicken breasts. Cut into tip
of the finger size
pieces. Reserve the juice for the first meal. Steam the rice until
fully cooked. Combine the Chicken and rice. Add a pinch of salt if you
didn't already salt the rice. Add any other seasoning your dog likes.
When
ready to feed the dogs, combine half their recommended kibble with
sufficient Chicken/rice mixture to make up about 1/3 their ration. Make
up the rest with fat free cottage cheese.
This makes a very
low fat diet, typically less than 10%. You can add vegetable fats or
fish oil to improve vitamin absorption, but do be sparing. In the first
batch of food, add the cooking juices from the Chicken to the kibble.
This
recipe makes enough food for several feedings, so don't put the Chicken
drippings in the storage container: it will only hasten spoilage. Also,
don't leave the mix down: it will spoil very fast.
Boil rice and water in a large saucepan over medium heat.
Turn down heat and simmer rice, cover it and let it simmer during 30
minutes.
Heat
up vegetable oil in a large skillet and then add in the Swiss chard and
spring baby cabbage and stir fry these during 1 – 2 minutes. Put these
stir fried vegetables into the pan with rice. Add in the chopped meat
or Chicken, ginger, tamari, and the sesame seed oil.
Turn up the heat and bring rice mixture to a boil, stirring constantly.
Turn heat down and cook during 20 – 30 minutes more.
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