In Purrsuit of Flavors

Published on by Xena, Lucy and Chia
By The Canadian Cats
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We originally had a different post for today, but this is about food, and that is much more important!

Our easy, midday “meal” is always kefir in a soup bowl. We don’t get much, though. Sometimes we get berries in it, or other yummy things. Kefir acts as a pro-bi-ot-ic to help keep us healthy. It’s better than having to take medicine, fur sure. But that’s not what this post is about, right? So…we bugged Mom about this until she thought of one of her simple, any-time meals.

Mommy, think “food.”

Our Dad is a great cook, but his cooking is usually a bit more complicated. Mom eats to live (unlike us, who live to eat) and doesn’t especially like to cook. This meal is a favorite of Dad’s, so we won’t let him know it’s so simple to do. We’ll go with the “she slaved over a hot stove all day just so you could have this” theme.

Mom and Dad always complain about on-line recipes where the author yammers endlessly with stuff no one wants to know, so we’ll stop here and present our easy summer recipe for you.

Sloppy Joes
1 lb ground beef
1 regular size can whole or crushed tomatoes
2 or 3 Tbs dill pickle relish
about 1 tsp sugar (we use 1/2 tsp stevia)
a little salt, to taste

Brown ground beef, breaking it up into small pieces. Pulverize tomatoes in a food processor, then add to cooked beef, along with everything else. Simmer for 15 to 30 minutes to reduce liquid. Pulse a few times in the already dirty food processor, just enough to make the hamburger pieces very small.
Makes enough for 2 to 4 hearty portions.

Mom makes homemade coleslaw to go with this. You can use store bought if you’re lazy you prefer, but Dad’s dietary restrictions means almost everything has to be homemade.

Also, since neither of them is eating bread, they put a serving of sloppy joes into a bowl and top with the coleslaw. They say it is yumdillyicious, but we don’t know, as we never get any of it.

I like laying in the sun almost as much as I like food.

Thanks, Phenny and Nelly and Shoko and Tyebe and Budd for hosting posts about food!!! You’re our kind of anipals!

Lucy and Xena Schnauzer Warrior “Food-Loving” Princess

26 thoughts on “In Purrsuit of Flavors”

  21. You’re right, Miss Sandra. Mom and Dad stopped the bread because of the lectures, er, lectins, in it that causes their guts to get leaky. XOX Lucy the sunbather

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  24. Great recipe! I guess the pickle relish is what makes the sloppy joes so yummy. Such a fun recipe. But at our house, NOTHING is fun without bread, so we will skip the coleslaw and bread it up!

    Love and licks,
    Cupcake

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  25. I had to stop and admire you Lucy while my heart melted out onto the floor at you sleeping in the sun before I read the meal. Sounds good to me. And healthy! I am right now trying to give up bread again I gave up sugar three and a half years ago and I gave up bread except for once or twice a year I mean a week but have recently during the world meltdown over the virus started with the bread again. Not healthy

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  26. That sounds like what we would love…no bread but slaw on top of the meat mixture..l am glad there is no ketchup in there…stevia is way better for bodies than sugar or those artificial poisons…Hmmm…not sure about the relish…Pawppy likes it, but petcretary, not so much.
    I bet if you sort of adapted that it would be a yummy chili, topped with the slaw! Like a variation on the theme!

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