Reader Comments on A Strawberry Homecoming from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:13:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/marysfarm/strawberries Could you post the recipe you use for the dog food you make? I have an 8 year old Lab that has been very punky lately and the doctors do not know why. The food might work! Thanks! Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:11:39 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/marysfarm/strawberries I am just making some up now. Make a batch of white rice (I prefer brown rice for myself and the rest of the human race but it's not as digestible for dogs and sick ones). Let cool. Make up some white sauce: Melt one tablespoon butter in a hot skillet, add one tablespoon white flour and let the flour cook a bit, it should go brown. Slowly add one cup of milk and beat with a whisk to avoid lumps (not sure if the dogs mind lumps as much as we do). I also add an egg yolk as well, since it seems to me to be a bit more protein and nourishment. Add salt if you would like to. Chop up bits of chicken taken from a cooked chicken breast or whole chicken. Use a good cup for this recipe. Mix a cup of the rice with the white sauce and the chicken. Keep the leftover rice refrigerated for the next batch. If the dog has not eaten in a while or if she has been very sick, just try small bits at first. I hope your Lab likes this! My vet says this is very digestible and always recommends it before other steps are taken. It's worked for me many times over. Good luck! Edie Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:18:35 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/marysfarm/strawberries Thank you so much, Edie! I'm going to make some up tomorrow. I can't wait to see if it helps Lars! Thanks again!! Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:33:55 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/marysfarm/strawberries I'm sure I'm not the only one who hopes you'll let us know "soon" how Mayday is doing. Good luck. Alice Wagner in Wisconsin Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:40:11 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/marysfarm/strawberries Edie, what a lovely column. I have a friend who has never fed her dogs anything but homemade chicken, veggies, rice and yogurt. Now she has a good old Jack Russel Terrier with cancer and my friend feeds the pooch some kind of tripe mixture and it seems to be helping. You remind us to enjoy our bounty day by day. Polly Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:46:17 +0100 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/marysfarm/strawberries Mayday and Harriet and I are rootin' for you, Lars! What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Maybe that homemade food is the way to go, after all the dog food (and other) scares of last year. I don't think we have to have our dog food made in China, do you? The chicken and rice menu doesn't take so long after all, and, if I sat down to calculate the cost, it's probably cheaper. Chicken legs are on sale this week for 49 cents a pound. I love the yogurt idea, Polly! Thanks all, see today's blog -- Mayday is baaaack! Edie Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:53:23 +0100