Hunger Pangs

Kitties!

Salem here.

I decided to take a quick selfie while I was impatiently politely waiting for my evening piece of chikkun jerky.  Anything to occupy my mind--I was hungrumbly!

I'm sure you understand...

Happy Sunday!

XX  Starving Salem  XX

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Sky Meat

Kitties!

Salem here.

I tell you what, our Daddy is a Good Egg. 

 Just look at all the chikkun jerky strips he tossed out on the Catio rug just for me!

Happy Tuesday!

XX  Salem  XX

Crunchy Culprit

Kitties!

Sweet Pea here.

Yes, 'twas I who chewed one or two thousand holes in the plastic bag containing the delicious chikkun jerky that was on top of the refrigerator!

Oh, and freely consumed the contents, too.

It was so much work, though... 

...room service is much more convenient!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta get crunching.

Happy Tuesday!

XX  Unrepentant Pea  XX

Sneaky Snackery

Kitties!

The Mystery Muncher here.

Mommy made fresh chikkun jerky last week and filled the treat jar.  She put the rest in a plastic bag which she stowed on top of the refrigerator--thinking it would be safe.

WRONG!!!!

Yesterday, when Mommy went to replenish the jar she discovered that not only had the bag been opened, it had been brutally savaged in the process--with chickkun bits strewn all over the top of the fridge, as well!

I ask you:  Whodunnit?

Leave your guess in the comments...tomorrow I shall confess!

Happy Toofsday!

XX  M. M.  XX

Meaty Monday

Kitties!

The Baby here.

*nom nom nom*

Mommy gives me minced chicken breast every day for my elevenses.  It's delicious.

She grills 'em up for me every couple of days so they're always fresh...she was poaching them, but I far prefer the taste of grilled chicken.

I can be sound asleep but as soon as I hear the chopping block hit the counter I'm wide awake, waiting.  Waiting, because I get snack service in my heated cubby! 

Mommy says I'm spoiled, but honestly?  I just don't see it.

Happy Monday!

XX  Gobbling Grizz  XX

Room Service

Kitties!

Felix here.

You know what's better than a heaty bed?

A heaty bed buffet!

Serving, from left to right:

*White Castle hamburger meat*

*thin sliced deli ham*

*minced poached chicken breast*

Oh my, decisions decisions... 

Not really!

HAM wins, every single time.

Happy Caturday!

XX  Felix  XX

Tasty Tuesday

Kitties!

The Baby here.

Man, did we win the bonus round this past weekend:

The peeps went grocery shopping and came home with a new nifty box (score!)...

AND...

...a broasted chicken!

Mommy eats the drummers, Daddy eats the wings and a breast, and we get the remainder!

Not all at once, but still.  Broasted chicken, pals.  Broasted chicken.

*YUM*

Happy Tuesday!

XX  Burpin' Bibbers  XX

TUNG-ceedo

Kitties!

Salem here.

I'm galloping strolling sedately down The Plank and licking my chops (see my tung?) because I just heard the lid come off of the chikkun jerky jar!

mmmmmmm...chikkun.

Gotta maintain my firlish gigure* for all the handsome mancats, you know.

Happy Tuesday!

XX  Salem  XX

*girlish figure

The Big Day

Kitties!

You asked, and we commanded Mommy and Daddy to deliver.

They have been working day in and day out...

building up inventory...

working on packaging and pricing...

and a store front--which still needs a few more tweaks. 

But we KNEW none of you would want to be deprived for another second, so Mommy made a page on the sidebar for ordering fresh home-made Catio Chips!

Because Kitties (and Woofers) are all about the instant gratification, right?

And to celebrate our Grand Soft Opening we're doing a giveaway:  everybody who purchases Catio Chips from now until midnight, September 20, 2015 (PST) will be eligible to win one of these sets of tie-dyed tea towels! 

For now you will have to send an email and Daddy will invoice you before you can pay, but hopefully not for long...Mommy is learning more HTML than she thought she'd ever have to know wants to.

All the details are on the page in the side bar.

Anyhoo, we hope you try 'em...they are delicious AND nutritious!

Happy Munching Monday!

XX  The Katnip Lounge  XX

Wonderful Wednesday

Kitties!

Coming soon...in Katnip flavor, too!

Happy Wednesday!

XX  The Katnip Kats  XX

Really?

Kitties!

Scouty here.

I was patiently waiting for my brekkie which is privately served chikkun strips because I'm spoiled, when suddenly Mommy started cackling.

Why, I have no idea.

Happy Wednesday!

XX  ESS Scouty  XX

Two-Timing Thursday

Kitties!

Mommy's outrageous behavior continues...

Here she is CUDDLING ANOTHER KITTY showing Sampo what's boiling in the pot--chikkun titz--that aren't for us.

Punapipurri, King Kitty of Finland (North) opted for the direct snoopervision option...taking over The Baby's role in the operation.

Mesi didn't want to wait for the jerkification, in fact, many many many many pieces of sliced chikkun was consumed, pre-dehydration.  (Do you see the extent of our Mommy's evilness--she put a Preventative Cat Barrier on top of the delicious slices!)

After an excruciatingly long wait (or so we assume...WE didn't get to smell the tantalizing aroma of drying titz) the jerky was ready for consumption...our favorite part of the operation...and Äila's...

...and the entire Finland Gang, as well!

Our only consolation from this sad sorry state of affairs is that the Gang's Äiti now has NO EXCUSE to let them go without these scrumptious morsels of Finnish fowl.  

Ever.

bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!

Hyvää ruokahalua!*

XX  The Katnip Lounge Kats  XX

*Hearty Eating

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Kitties!

Our horrible Mommy has reached a new nadir in treachery and betrayal.

SHE MADE CHIKKUN TITZ !!!!!

And not for us...

Photos tomorrow.

"Happy" Tuesday!

XX. The Miffed Kats.  XX

Mommy's New Toy

Kitties!

Mommy killed yet another inexpensive dehydrator a couple of weeks ago, so she decided it was time to open her stingy wallet pull out the big guns and buy a real one.  After all, she does chikkun treats for us weekly, as well as jerky for her and Daddy, and banana chips, nuts, tomatoes...and all the lemons off our tree.  Around here a dehydrator gets quite the work-out.

The Chikkun Inspector worked diligently on the maiden run.

And here it is, all loaded up and ready to go!

Mommy gets a little queasy with the smell of dehydrating chikkun (she is crazypants) so Daddy set up a spot in the garage with a fan to waft the stink delicious aroma outside.

...six hours later... 

Et voila! 

Crunchy, chewy, toofy-cleaning chikkun snax.

8-10 pounds of titz makes about a gallon and a half of treats, enough to last us about ten days, more or less, depending on whether or not we can get the lid off the ceramic treat jar!

Which would never happen, right Maui?

Happy Caturday!

XX  The Katnip Lounge  XX

pee ess:  Mommy bought an EXCALIBUR dehydrator.

Salem Sez

Kitties!

Look deep into my eyes...

...and...

FEED ME CHIKKUN!

FEED ME CHIKKUN!

FEED ME CHIKKUN!

or else.

Happy Friday!

XX  Salem  XX

Dehydrated CHIKKUN! A Recipe.

Kitties!

Gorging Grizz here.

Many of you requested instructions for your servants learn how to make delectable dehydrated chikkun jerky.

Here's how:

First we get Mommy, particularly when she's already hot and sweaty and still in her yoga clothes, to fire up the big (Scouty) stew pot filled with water and a tablespoon of salt.  While she waits for the water to boil she trims off the gross fatty bits (which make the water foam like crazy) from the boneless skinless chix titz--and shoos cats off the counter.

Then she boils them up, about six at a time, 10 minutes per batch. And shoos cats off the counter.

At this point Mommy gets tired of shooing so she minces up some steaming Sacrificial Chikkun for us, burning her fingers.  Which we reject, in favor of this: 

Licking the chikkun slices!

For which we are, once again, shooed, apparently for disturbing the avian artistic array. 

After the titz cool on a rack for a half hour or so Mommy thinly slices them and puts them the dehydrator rack, and after 6-7 hours at 135℉ we have Incomparable Nomminess!

At this point we swat do the Self-Shooing Shuffle to optimize distribution...

So, to summarize:

trim and boil boneless skinless chicken breasts in salted water for about 10 minutes (shoo)

cool--counter (shoo) or refrigerator (delayed shooing)

slice about 3/16" (3-4 mm) thick (activate extreme shooing skillz)

dehydrate until almost crisp

scuffle

Bon Appetit!

Happy Thursday!

XX  Glutted Grizz  XX

Two-fer Tuesday!!

Kitties!

Sweet Pea and Bibby Bibberton here.

We are back.  Again.

The Mommy would like to apologize for the abrupt cessation of posts; however, we informed her that no amount of groveling would suffice.  Her excessively lame excuse is that she went to Tucson to visit Shadow and her parents...Grandpaw turned 80 last week!  She got a fun video of Shadow and her folks which we'll post later this week.

In a (semi-successful) attempt to weasel her way back into our good graces she made mass quantities of chikkun jerky:

We helped.

Now, if we can only keep Mommy on the blogging straight and narrow--at least she's got the feeding thing down pat, thank Cod.

Happy Tuesday!

XX  SP and BB  XX

Black and Whitester Wednesday

Kitties!

The feeding frenzy continues with a few outtakes...

Sweet Pea is quite devoted to chicken bits, MOL!

Happy Wednesday!

XX  Miss Pea, Bibs, and Shamu  XX

Tasty Tuxie Tuesday

Kitties!

Salem here.

As is only right and proper, Mommy makes home-made treats for us; dehydrated chicken jerky.  Every couple of weeks she poaches, slices, and dehydrates 5 pounds of boneless skinless chix titz (that's what she writes on the grocery list) for our enthusiastic consumption.

Naturally, some kitty does spot Quality Control throughout the entire process.  There's four basic steps:  

 1) Attempted Chicken-Fat Theft out of the sink (The Baby)

2) Endless Raw Titz Licking (again, The Baby)

3) Burning the Roof of the Mouth Eating Too-Hot Chopped Up Chicken  (you guessed it!)

4) Getting in the Way of the Knife and Licking Every Single Slice (need we say who?)

We all love the finished product--and the best bit is eating the still-warm chicken crumbs from the bottom of the dehydrator, like thus:

or click HERE

Spoilt?

Not us!

Happy Tuesday!

XX  Sated Salem  XX

Feasting Friday

Kitties!

Sylvester here.

Pay no attention to this Highly Unflattering photo.  

We all know the camera adds ten pounds.

Besides, I'm too busy eating teh meats right now to be bothered.

Yes, you heard that right:  TEH MEATS!

The peeps (well Mommy, anyway, and she's the one who counts) decided they weren't getting enough protein in their diets, and since Daddy stubbornly refuses to consume does not care to eat lots of "gassy vegetables" et cetera they dusted off the Weber grill and are grillinging MEATS once a week, with enough for leftovers!

Thank COD.

Mommy de-boned the chicken this morning and I was diligently on hand, inspecting, to make sure she did it correctly.

Oh, and in case you wondered, that is NOT a bag o'weed on the counter, over my shoulder.  It's a bag of home-made kale chips made from the kale in our garden.  Somebody plainly still loves her vegetables...

Anyway, the chicken was delicious and I ate almost one third of the plate--Mommy decided to be a Good Egg and let me go to town and eat as much as I liked.

heh, heh...so much for her chicken salad sandwich ideas...for some reason she objects to the flavor of cat spit and saved the rest of the chicken for ME (all right, us) tomorrow.  YUM.

Happy Friday!

XX  Sylvester, the Sated  XX