While making dinner last night I ran across a few aged/questionable leftovers in the fridge and decided to try my hand at home cooked dog biscuits. It was pretty easy and fun. I'd like to thank Zeke for his full support.

Ingredients used:

• fist sized hunk of old meat (lamb in this case)
• stock (juices from cooking above mentioned lamb)
• veggies: 2 carrots, 1 celery stalk, lettuce leaves and stalk
• oil: olive oil since it was already out
• 4 large cloves garlic
• pesto (dribs and drabs left in food processor)
• bit of Brewers yeast
• one egg...shell and all
• half cup corn meal
• couple cups of whole wheat flour

Basically I started throwing things in the food processor: some for good health, some had been taking up fridge space too long. Once it was all blended smoothly (pate anyone?) I added flour and mixed by hand until the dough was firm. Greased up a couple of cookie sheets, plopped some dough on, spread out to a uniform half inch or so with a little space around the edges. I sprinkled flower over the top to make it easier to handle. Before putting in the oven (about 350 degrees) I used a pizza cutter to scribe the dough into bite sized squares.

After about thirty minutes I re-cut the squares and flipped them over. Another thirty minutes and they were well cooked and drying out nicely. Shut off the oven and left the biscuits inside overnight with the door slightly ajar to dry out more. Well, first I cooled a couple of them off and had our focus group test them. Yes, happy wags of approval all around.

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