My Brofur -- the Treat Feef

Hi pals, it's me, Herman!!! I've been asked by the Chewy.com company to review Freeze Dried Cat Treats made by the award-winning Orijen company. This is my very first official review, so I'm kinda nervous. *twists floofy tail into a nervous knot.*

When the package containing the treats arrived, we all knew there was something extra special inside it. We could smell it right through the bubble wrap. In fact, we followed Mom from the front door, through the house to the kitchen. We expected her to open it and share the goods right then and there. But she didn't. She put it on the kitchen counter, and then walked away. I repeat. She Walked Away!

We -- my fur sibs and I -- stood around with our mouths open, wondering what kind of torture was this? But then Opie took the matter into his own paws. He jumped onto the counter, and knocked the package to the floor. And then he attacked it!

He rubbed on the package, and when that didn't work, he pawed it, and clawed it, and then went to work on it with his teef. Those suckers are sharp. And pretty soon... the aroma of Freeze Dried Cat Treats filled our noses.

That's when Mom came back and saw what Opie did. She immediately sent him to the Bad Chair to think about what he'd done. She was about to send the rest of us to our rooms for being accomplices when I explained to her that I was supposed to write a review for the treats. So she gave in, and helped us open the package.

I was the first to taste them. OMC! They tasted like a symphony in my mouth! Cage-free chicken and turkey, plus wild-caught flounder from North Vancouver Island. No preservatives or filler stuff either!

Then my lil sisfur, Dori, insisted she review the treats. I told her only mine would count, but I let her have a few anyway.

I guess her lip smacking, accompanied by her jingle bells, was proof that she agreed with me. Then Peaches and her son, Jack, wanted in on the action.

  

 Mom said nothing about us eating on her carpet since there wasn't a crumb left behind.

While our Orijen treat feast was taking place, Gidget was bird watching. She has this thing about birds. When she was an outside cat, she used to catch em. Now she's indoors and has to be content just to watch. She says watching from inside the house is like watching Downton Abbey with the sound off.

Yeah, I haz to agree.

Then, after the birds flew away, Gidget realized we were eating treats and they were almost gone. That's when Mom grabbed a few and gave them to her. Mom's do that kind of thing, don't they?

So now the treats are really almost gone...and guess who hadn't had any yet!

I felt kinda bad for Big Orange, so I tossed a few treats for him to eat. But then... Then! I couldn't believe my eyes! He started taking Gidget's treats. She's told me many times he's a treat feef, but I never saw him in action so I wasn't sure I should believe her. But there he was, right before my eyes, stealing the Orijen treats.

And I got it on video:

 So the bag of Orijen Freeze Dried Cat Treats was finally gone... all but a memory. And since cats are notorious about forgetting stuff... I ran up to my office, booted up my computer and got to writing this review. It was exhausting work... I had to nap in the middle of it.

So, with the input from my fur sibs, we all agreed, 100%, that Orijen Freeze Dried Cat Treats are Wonderpurr! We loved the taste of the fresh ingredients and enjoyed the freeze dried texture as opposed to crunchy or soft treats. We got to sample the Original  flavor with the chicken and turkey and flounder, but I plan to try all of the 5 Great Flavors available: Tundra - featuring elk, venison, quail and steelhead trout, Regional Red made with ranch-raised beef, Alberta Lamb with its tender savory flavor and Wild Boar (OMC!!!)

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Chef Gidget Presents: SourPuss Lemon Cake

Yesterday I used my phenomenal talent for desserts to make a Sourpuss Lemon cake for Easter dessert.

You don't have to wait until next Easter to make this, it's actually wonderpurr for any celebration... even if its just celebrating that you made it to Friday without getting fired from your job.

Now...if you are in a hurry...or if someone called you an hour before reminding you to bring dessert to a party...you could use a box mix of lemon cake, and a can of lemon frosting for this cake. Just bake in a Bundt pan and after it cools, take a huge spoonful of the frosting and add a little milk to it until its runny, and drip over the cake. Add some sprinkles and you're good to go.

BUT!

If you are like me and want to make a presentation for your taste buds...then here is the homemade recipe...made from scratch.

In fact...that's the name of my future cookbook: Chef Gidget: Made From Scratch!

SOURPUSS LEMON CAKE

You will need:
a Bundt cake pan
Pam spray
Flour

Ingredients:
2-1/2 cups of flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup margarine or butter
2 tablespoons fresh lemon rind (using old forgotten lemon found in vegetable crisper not recommended)
1 cup Butter-milk
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Spray your Bundt with the PAM and flour it. Or if you like, use the one with the flour already in it.
Stir together the flour, baking soda and salt in a small bowl.
Beat the stuffing out of margarine/butter, sugar and lemon rind until well blended.
Stir in lemon juice.
Pour into the prepared Bundt pan. Try not to drip it all over the middle snout of the pan since that will make a mess *rolling eyes* Duh!

Bake the cake at 325 degrees for about 50-55 minutes, or until your claw comes out clean.  Sit the Bundt on a wire rack for 15 minutes to cool.

Now --- here you can do one of two things. You can use canned frosting, thinned with milk with colorful sprinkles like I mentioned above (I am not into repeating myself, so you can just go re-read the above.)

OR

You can make a Lemon Glaze.

If you go with the lemon glaze -- and really, I don't give a rat's patootie which you do since I'm a cat and cat's don't eat lemons, so this cake is never gonna touch my tongue -- while the Bundt is cooling on the wire rack, poke holes in the cake.

THEN

Mix 2 cups Confectioners sugar with 1/2 cup melted margarine or butter
Add in 2 tablespoons fresh grated lemon rind and
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice.
Stir with a wisk until whisker smooth

Pour about 2/3rds of the glaze over the holes and let the cake cool for about 20 minutes STILL IN THE BUNDT PAN.

Finally, invert the Bundt onto a pretty cake plate -- remember, presentation is very important. Unless you have no social skills and honestly don't care what others think of you -- and then spread the remaining glaze over the top of the cake. Let this cool to room temperature, and then refrigerate...which makes no sense to me because if you let it cool to room temp, why then stick it in the fridge? Humans make everything so complicated!

Hope you enjoyed this recipe and are now frantically looking for invitations to parties so you can Make It From Scratch.

Be sure to confess @Chef_Gidget was the one who gave you this recipe. I am watching you!

Tastefully yours!

Chef Gidget

Cooking wif Gidget: Purrrfect Popovers

Me lying on Mom's Sekret Recipe Book

PURRRFECT POPOVER RECIPE

There's nuffin like a good hot n steamy popover from da oven, right? Dis popover is nommy good wif my Signature Salad (see below). Dis recipe serves 6...or one if you reeeeallly love popovers.

You will need:
Popover pan- pikture below
1-1/4 cups ALL-PURRRPOSE flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1-1/4 cups milk
Softened buttah for brushing pan
1/2 cup shredded Parmesan if making cheesy popovers
Cayenne if making cheesy popovers
plastic wrap spoon bowl oven (duh! rolls eyes)