Recipe:
2 lbs Elk
2 Eggs
1/2 cup shredded cheese
1/2 bag frozen peas
1/3 bag frozen blue berries
1/3 bag brown rice
1 tbsp flex seed
1/4 tsp egg shell powder
2 tbsp organic apple sauce
1/4 cup low-no sodium stock
Add stock to skillet and use two spatulas or two forks to try to break the Elk apart and stir. Steam the peas, blue berries, rice, do not blend. In a large bowl add mostly cooked or cooked Elk, add eggs, egg shell powder, apple sauce, flex seed and cheese and stir well. Transfer all to large baking sheets and bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes to remove as much moisture as possible. depending on your oven you may have to take the sheets out and with a knife, cut the meat vertical and horizontal to form squares and move the squares apart a little to help dry out the moisture more. You may need to put the food back in the oven to continue removing the moisture. In the end, I kept mine in the oven for so long they look like treats and Athos would only eat these as treats, and he refused them when placed in his bowl and left out all day.
**Afterthought, I started looking into vitamins and minerals in Vet written cook books, because this food was good but for long term cooking, the dog requires a sensitive plan that balances the proportions of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrition which becomes very dangerous for your dog if not provided and included in your dogs diet and may cause serious harm, such as degeneration of bones, ligaments, muscle tissue. Rule of thumb is that not every meal needs to be nutritionally sufficient and perfectly balanced but overall your dog should receive all that his little body requires to function well and for a long - long - super-long time. The best book that made me aware of how scientific you have to get with nutrition is, Dr. Becker's Real Food for Healthy Dogs and Cats by Beth Taylor and that's why we scheduled our first appointment with a Vet specializing in dog nutrition to make sure we are not harming our boy.