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Last night I made my first attempt in making an edible dish for my kitties and I was met with an amazing amount of success. Denali will eat just about anything, provided it doesn’t eat her first, and given the fact that she apparently doesn’t mind eating coyote meat that might not be an entirely accurate description of dietary tastes. Isis however is absolutely finicky. Though she likes canned cat food, only certain flavors appeal to her and she certainly doesn’t like to eat it on a regular basis either. She’s not much for human food either except for, strangely enough, cookies and the odd bites from one of our hamburgers. She does love chicken though, so endeavored to make something that would appeal to her since she is the one in primary need right now. We still have a sufficient amount of safe dry food left.

I didn’t have enough ingredients readily available to make a properly well balanced dish for the cats but seeing Isis trying to crunch dry food for another nigt was out of the question so I made due with what I had. Somehow I succeeded beyond my wildest dreams! Both Isis and Denali loved this recipe! Isis even went back into the kitchen and availed herself of the remains from their dinner twice! Three helpings. That is utterly amazing for my finicky girl.

The ultimate test came earlier today when I took out the portion I had placed in a covered bowl and spooned out a serving to her. It was still chilled a bit from the refrigerator and had a thin coating of her medicine on it but Isis happily dug into it. Now I know this dish is appealing to cats. Now I happily offer this recipe up to you:

What you’ll need:

• 2 chicken breasts, skinned.
• 2 teaspoons catnip
• 1 bay leaf (whole)
• 2 cups steamed white rice
• 1/2 cup milk
• blender
• large mixing bowl
• strainer

Preparation

In a pan, add in white uncooked rice, bay leaf, and catnip and allow to boil. When the rice is soft and ready, carefully strain so as not to loose the bay leaf and catnip.  When finished place in a covered mixing bowl and set it to the side.

Over an open flame, grill both breasts until cooked. Do not add any sauces or herbs - especially garlic! When ready the chicken should be nice and tender. Remove chicken from grill and cut into bite size portions then place into a blender. Set blender mode to chop and proceed until all pieces have been finely diced up.  As you do this add in a bit of milk to allow the blender to better able chop and blend the meat. Do not add in all of the milk yet.

Once  the chicken is finely chopped and mixed with some milk pour it into the mixing bowl where you have the rice. Carefully stir and mix the ingredients. Due to the stickiness of the rice you will need to add in a bit of milk and a touch of warm water as you stir. you do not want the mixture to be runny though so do not add in all of the milk at once - you may not need it! The mixture texture should be akin to making cookie dough or tortilla mixture.

Once the mixture has been fully mixed and the texture is as desired it is ready to serve. This mixture makes approximately 5 servings for 2 cats.

Now, because my mother interfered this recipe was altered slightly from my original intention, it remains to be seen what results the original would have yielded, so if you’re feeling gutsy you may want to try alternating the preparation of the chicken. Leave the skin on, boil instead of grill ect. The choice is completely up to you.

Please note, this mixture is not perfectly balanced so you would not wish to feed this to your animal continuously over a lengthy period of time. It would be akin to you having a fast food diet. However, if you do not have the time or money to run out to the store to buy all of the recommended ingredients to make a perfectly balanced meal and you do not want to risk the cat food on the shelves this is a quick and simple alternative that will tide your cat over nicely. It will also serve as a great treat as well. Enjoy!