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Dog-Gone Good Cuisine: More Healthy, Fast, and Easy Recipes for You and Your Pooch
- Author: Gayle Pruitt
- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin; 1 edition (February 18, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1250037131
- ISBN-13: 978-1250037138
- Cover price $21.99
Dog-Gone Good Cuisine is a book of healthy recipes for humans and their canine kids. Gayle Pruitt’s unique approach to nutritious cooking is intended to be enjoyed by chef and pup together. It includes more than one hundred balanced, delicious recipes that are corn, sugar, soy and gluten free. Sprinkled with gorgeous, full-color images of adorable rescue dogs, this book is as beautiful as it is appetizing. Chefs of all ages, sizes and pedigrees will love the easy-to-follow instructions and helpful information about vitamins, minerals, herb]s, and spices.
With treats such as Salmon Florentine, Curried Beef Sliders. Spiced Stuffed Peppers, Raspberry Kefir, and Minty Fruit Rollups, you won’t be able to stick with just one. So get cooking and bond with your canine buddy over these delightful doggie dishes.
GAYLE PRUITT is a certified nutritionist and chef. She is on the Health Advisory Board and writes for Nutricula Magazine and Petological, a magazine from the pet’s perspective. Pruitt’s recipes have appeared in national magazines and in bestselling cookbooks such as Hampton’s Diet Cookbook. She lives in Dallas, Texas.
Chapters include:
- Why Cook (for Your Family and Your Dog)
- Waste Not Want Not
- Equipment and Ingredients to Always Have on Hand
- Basic Techniques
- Human/Canine
- Canine Only
- The Last Word
The Human/Canine chapter has sections for
- Breakfasts
- Appetizers
- Soups
- Beef Entrees
- Lamb Entrees
- Chicken Entrees
- Turkey Entrees
- Fish Entrees
- Pasta and Veggie Entrees
- Sides
- Desserts
- Juices
The Canine Only chapter has sections for
- Raw
- Cooked
- Jerky
The recipes in this book are all relatively easy to understand. They do contain some ingredients that I have never seen in my grocery store (and some I never even heard of!), like the ingredients bone meal or fenugreek, or the product Forbidden Rice. A good number of the other ingredients are available in the healthy, organic or gluten-free section of your grocery store or natural food store. The book has a nice amount of color photos, most of them adorable dogs. I like food photos in my cookbooks, they help me know what something is supposed to look like and they help me decide what it is I’m going to make. Notably missing from the recipes are cooking and prep time, which is the other piece of information I use to determine what new recipe I’m going to try making. The chicken soup and the manicotti both looked good and sounded appealing. The canine only recipes do include storage tips. I’d find it helpful if the people recipes did as well, for folks that might be batch cooking ahead as these recipes are so specialized.
This book would be great for anyone that eats gluten-free and is looking for more recipes, as well as folks who are interested in feeding their dogs homemade people food.
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Carolsue
Friday 20th of June 2014
We give him some table scraps, but not much. Some pieces of meat, certain veggies and ice cream!
Jenna Z
Thursday 19th of June 2014
Our two get cooked chicken, pumpkin puree, yogurt and other veggies on top of their kibble. Helps with digestion and the pumpkin stops them from eating their own poop. Ew.
Marci
Wednesday 18th of June 2014
We don't give our dog table foods. However, we do give them bones from our steaks.
Kristen
Tuesday 17th of June 2014
I give them meat, veggies, fruit (they especially love bananas!) and eggs. (oh, and the occasional bite of pizza crust!)
Marci Wright
Monday 16th of June 2014
They (we have 2 dogs) get small bits of things like meat. I don't let them have anything sugary, greasy, or anything with tomato in it.