Making a mess ;)

OK, so I usually keep the raw meat preparing and handling to a bare minimum.

No chopping boards and meat cleavers here. If a turkey back weighs 500g, the dog gets 500g that meal, and then the next day I feed slightly less to make up for it (so he doesn't get fat).

But recently I have conceded to using scissors to chop chunks of chicken off the carcass for the little dog (Enzo).

The first bags of heart which I bought came ready chopped. The recent bags are not. So I have had to chop them myself, which really is no big deal since heart is actually quite a solid, tough piece of muscle meat. It's easy to chop and not at all slimy.

Not so with liver.

When I first got the bag out of the freezer, it was lovely and solid. Hard to cut since still quite frozen. But after 36hrs in a fridge, not so much. It's sloppy and coated in slimy... well, not sure what it is to be honest, but it's not too pleasant.

So what's a girl to do? Well I could refreeze it, but it's defrosted so much, and some has been chopped off it, so it's not really in one lump anymore.
In future I will let it defrost only enough to get the scissors through it, chop it up, and put the chunks back into the bag & into the freezer.

But that doesn't really help me now.

OK, so tonight the dogs are getting minced beef & bone, so, how about mixing the liver in with the beef?


OK, take one large clean dog bowl, and empty into it the last of the liver (248g). Get the scissors, and start chopping!






When it's finely chopped, add the beef mince (474g). Get a spoon and give it a good mix so it's completely mixed together.
Spoon mixture back into beef mince bag. I tripple bag mine so I can wrap them up and put them bag in the fridge.

Wash & wipe down surface.

And there you have beef & liver ready mixed, so now all I have to do is spoon out the required weight of food into the dogs' dishes when it's time for dinner, and dont have to go playing around with slimy liver again.

Oh, and the added bonus is that Buster got to lick all the liver slime and beef mince 'juice' off the dish, once I'd spooned the mixture back into the bag. He liked it anyhow!