The kitty brothers are very interested in what I’m doing. It might be kitty food in the making! Of course, when they see me notice them, they scatter to the winds.
The beef, butternut squash (which I hope will add to texture but be cooked completely down), portobello mushrooms, beef broth, and seasonings are in the crock pot now. The broccoli, green beans, carrots, and leeks will go in later so they don’t cook into mush. Onion may or may not go in, too, since I added onion powder among the seasonings.
No, kitties! This is not kitty food!
They were probably trying to tell you to stop after the beef. 🙂
LOL! Actually, they don’t like beef. Fortunately, what they do like (chicken, tuna, salmon) they both like.
Your dinner sounds really good there, Doug!
It turned out so well, I ate it three days in a row, something I rarely do. I even froze three servings for future. It was more like a vegetable stew than a soup, it was so chunky, and I was pleased the butternut squash mostly stayed in chunks. I definitely will use squash in future soups/stews!
Cats are eternal optimists !
LOL! Yeah, I feel guilt when they give me those Bambi eyes. If i gave them kitty treats every time they gave me that look, they’d weigh twice as much! (I watch their weight closely since they are almost six years old, and I know excess weight is a source of many old kitty ails.)
You will never get any cat to acknowledge the possibility of overweightness and its awful consequences. it is the inherent nature of cats to try it on all the way.
Exactly! All the more reason to do it for them! Because the kitty boys are so fluffy, it is problematic determining if they are ideal weight. Their veterinarian, of course, uses a scale and a physical exam to decide if they are ideal weight.
Yes veterinarians are the ultimate debunkers.
doodz…for sure…less yur dad takez out all de veggeez N ree placez em with fish 🙂 sounds good tho…N joy dad !!! 🙂 ♥♥
It was very tasty soup, if I do say so myself! Good thing, too, because I made enough for the 5000…speaking of fish! LOL! Of course, the kitty boys enjoyed their all-meat kitty food later.
That is going to be a tasty dinner.
It was very tasty! The only vegetable I didn’t add to the mess was some asparagus. I’ll have that on toast later. That’s one of my favorite spring veggies!
They’re too greedy.
Hopeful! They just know they might get something to eat, too, if they whine enough. I don’t give them any human food, as I’ve mentioned before, and they’d not enjoy the vegetables anyway. (I, on the other hand, really enjoyed what amounted to a vegetable stew!)
Try not to give them food at your dinning table. Because they’ll hope to get food from you. This happen to my old cat named Kitty.
They beg but don’t get anything because I know it isn’t healthy for them.
Correct.
Mmmm…sounds good…the crock pot was an excellent invention. I feel the same way about adding vegetables but most peeps don’t seem to care or notice the veggies as mush.
Jean
It was super! As it turned out, the butternut squash didn’t turn into mush, and was a delightful surprise when I ate the soup! I’m going to make sure squash ends up in future soup, it was so tasty!
Squash is good in soups and stews. We attempt to grow our own….last year was a great year for squash. I even made squash soup. Never had it before but we both loved it.
Mmmm! I love butternut and acorn squash. I think the butternut squash would be especially good as a base for squash soup. Anyway, there were still intact chunks of squash in the soup, and that was a surprise I enjoyed!
I used to grow butternut squash as a kid, back east. Here, I don’t have much luck with butternut, although delicata squash does well. I am trying a variety called “Candy Stick”.
I think butternut is my favorite, though I confess I haven’t grown anything else. All my other squash experiences were with locally grown varieties, all of which I like.
That#s what I thought to as I made asparagus last weekend… the pup will disappear like the kitty bro’s … I was wrong… and we had gnawed asparagus and gnawed potatoes :o)
LOL! I have enough asparagus on hand, I’ll have some on toast, but I think I need to branch out and try it in quiche or soup. I get into food ruts where I like something a certain way and never try it other ways that I probably’d like, too: yes, I’d gnaw on them rare, too! Why not?