Category Archives: Meat

Homemade Cat Food: Canned/Pre-cooked Fish

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Cat

By Cat, May 2020 (Image, right, from Wikimedia Commons) After reading a Mercola article about the importance of serving homemade food for your pets (9), I’ve decided to introduce homemade cat food to my elderly cats. I prefer making food … Continue reading →

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Homemade Cat-food (About)

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Cat

By Cat, May 10, 2020 I’ve been feeding my cats both canned cat food and kibble over the years; I prefer canned food because it provides moisture they need, but they prefer kibble. Recently my Charlie cat (black and white … Continue reading →

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Rendering Lard in a Crockpot: The Process

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Cat

by Cat, October 23-24, 2o10 on The EssentiaList; copied on Cat’s Kitchen, May 3, 2019; all photos by Cat. Back in July 2010 I posted Rendering Lard – the Perfect (& Original) Shortening on the sustainability blog, The EssentiaList, which covered the … Continue reading →

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Rendering Lard – the Perfect (& Original) Shortening

Posted on May 2, 2019 by Cat

by Cat, 2o10 on The EssentiaList; copied on Cat’s Kitchen, May 2, 2019 (photo, right, by Cat, originally for The EssentiaList); updated on Cat’s Kitchen, Nov 4, 2019 Back in your grandmother’s (or great-grandmother’s) time, lard was a common staple … Continue reading →

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Baked Trout

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Cat

By Cat, Dec 5, 2018 (Photo, right, from Wikimedia Commons) During the winter it is hard to find fresh wild-caught fish like salmon, so I sometimes cook a fresh trout such as rainbow or steelhead. Unfortunately these are usually farm … Continue reading →

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Roast Buffalo (Bison), several recipes

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Cat

By Cat, Oct 2018 (Image, right, from Wikimedia Commons) The following recipes are adapted from a flyer on Cooking Bison at my local grocery store. Bison is a very healthful meat, and tasty too. It is not as fatty, and … Continue reading →

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Spaghetti & Meatballs, with Grain-Free Spaghetti

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Cat

By Cat, Oct 2018 (Photo right, from Wikimedia Commons) Spaghetti and meatballs has been a favorite for me since childhood, though not something my parents knew how to make. Dad had a friend in Great Falls, Montana whose wife was … Continue reading →

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Caesar Dressing with Commercial Avo-Mayo

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Cat

By Catherine Haug, July 6, 2018 (source of image, right, has been lost) I have long avoided commercial mayo because they use soy, corn and/or canola oil, none of which a healthy (the high-pressure process to separate the oil from … Continue reading →

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Detox soup from Thanksgiving leftovers

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Cat

By Cat, June 14, 2018 (Photo, right, from Wikipedia, but I’ve lost the link) I’ve been following online health docu-series that feature Functional Medicine practitioners; one of the things that is consistent in all these series is the importance of … Continue reading →

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GMO foods, and How to Avoid Them

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Cat

By Cat, Nov 2007; updated and re-published in May, 2018 (Image, right, from the Organic Consumers Assoc or OCA, used with permission) GMO means Genetically Modified Organism, and has become the most commonly-used term for Genetically Engineered (GE) foods. Another term … Continue reading →

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