This is a recipe for the Muppets (Whippets) in our life. Of course your doge might very much approve with much wow and many thank you.
Ingredients
- Bread crumbs
- Uncooked rice
- Wheat germ
- Steel cut oats (optional)
- Missing link (according daily rec’s on bottle)
- Molasses (unsulfered)
- 1 stick salted butter (room temp)
- Chicken stock (or veg)
- Frozen bag of peas (and carrots, sure)
- 2lb ground beef, 75/25 lean rating (or some ground-whatever)
- Chuck or the cheapest you can find–they’re muppets, they don’t care
- Baking/Roasting pan (or similar)
Preheat oven to 300-ish
Directions
- In the pan, spread enough bread crumbs, wheat germ, oats, and rice to lightly cover the pan.
- Add enough stock to make the mix damp.
- Add some veg (peas, etc)
- Drizzle molasses over the mix.
- Turn out each ground beef pack into the pan, flattening it out to reach the edges.
- Cover the top with pieces of butter.
- Bake for 25-30min.
- Let rest for 10min.
- Add bone-meal or missing link on top
- Break up and portion out in containers.
- Ziploc 4-cup twist-tops work great for this.
If your budget allows for a good-quality toaster oven (Krupps, Breville, etc.), you should get one. You can’t beat ’em for speed when it comes to smaller recipes. Over 80% of our oven work is done with one.
Love, Jimi
Additional Muppet Fud Ingredients List
This list is not exhaustive. Also, it doesn’t mean you can or should try to include as many into a meal as possible. I just find it helpful to have this list on-hand when making dog food, which ideally should be using up any safe scraps and/or less-than-perfect (or freezer-burned) stuff that would otherwise get thrown away (or more realistically, shoved back in the freezer, as if it will be somehow less of a problem six months from now).
Seasonings
- Rosemary
- Thyme
- Oregano
- Sweet Basil
- Mint
- Chamomile
- Sage
- Dill
- Fennel
- Celery (not celery salt)
- Cilantro
- Parsley (pref: curly)
- Turmeric
- Ginger
- Salt (very sparingly)
Seaweeds (plain)
- Wakame
- Kombu
- Dulce
- Nori
Vegetables
- Carrots
- Green Beans
- Peas and other beans/legumes, including peanut
- Spinach
- Kale
- Broccoli
- Pumpkin
- Potato
Fruits (no seeds)
- Apple
- Banana
- Apricot
- Date
- Fig
- Blueberry
- Raspberry
- Strawberry
- Melon
- Mango
- Pineapple
- Orange
Grain (sparingly)
- Oat
- Rice
- Flour
- Wheatgerm
- Egg Noodle
- Semolina (spaghetti)
Cheese
- Yes. (Reminder: cheese is salty)
NOTES
If you’re reading this and you’re not me, you might ask “how much seasoning?”. Here’s my general rule of thumb: I cook and season the batch of food I’m making similar to the way I cook human food. If it tastes good to me (yes I taste it), but rather bland, then it’s about right for the dogs. A dog’s sense of smell is thousands of times better than mine, and their tolerance for sodium/salt is significantly worse than mine.
[For Aston & Veil]
