Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary | 19 September 2009

Your problems solved

issue 19 September 2009

Q. Caught short by unexpected guests and an empty larder, in desperation I opened a can of high-end cat food (Fancy Feast brand — chicken, heart & liver flavour), mixed in a shot of brandy and served it as ‘pate’ with some water biscuits. It was delicious (the brandy cutting some of the natural gaminess of the product) — so popular in fact (I confess I repeated this performance with a subsequent group of expected guests) that now friends are asking for the recipe. I’m tempted to laugh it off and come clean — an economical tip for these straitened times, but my wife is mortified. What do you suggest?

Name withheld, Port of Spain, Trinidad
PS. Don’t try this with the fish flavour unless your guests have been drinking heavily.

A. My personal vet is confident that pet food consumed by humans will almost certainly have no ill effect.

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