I don't eat liver, but had prepared it a few times in recent weeks for Harley.  I think if you boil it, it will become tough and rubbery.  What I did was just sort of saute it in a tiny amt of water and just sort of prick it with a fork every time I turned it to make sure it was done.  I had to open the kitchen windows because it does have a distinct smell to it, that might be why people make it with onions.  Also, when I googled liver for dogs, I read not to give a lot because you could be giving too much Vitamin A I think it was, also it can make their stool very soft.  I didn't have any problem with the latter but I only made the liver once a week.  Too bad you are in CT because I would have been happy to give you the liver steaks I had left.  Hopefully someone who knows more about liver will post.

I have been making the Dressler diet for Evelyn, even though she's a perfectly healthy quadpawd, because it seems to be a good diet. I put a 1/4 pound piece of liver in the pot with all the ingredients and cooked everything together. I did not cut the snot, I mean the liver, in advance and just boiled it with the veggies and meat and brown rice. Then I used my immersion blender and it smooshed everything nicely. Cooked liver disintegrates pretty easily.

Maybe because I had a whole pot of stuff cooking, the liver didn't stink. But I was raised by a mother who believed we had to eat liver frequently, and I still remember the smell of it cooking. Not as nasty as some other things we cooked (my dad hunted) but definitely not like fried chicken.

I must also concur that a little dab'll do ya for liver. It is incredibly rich and nutritionally dense. If you give your dog too much, you'll know. Yard cleanup will tell the tale.

Shari

Well I guess I better ask for advice on my latest concoction. My husband raises pigs and slaugtered one last weekend. I had been telling him organs were good for dogs so he took ALL the organs and cooked them outside until they looked done. Then he ground it all up in his grinder and he said it looked like canned dog food. I haven't seen it yet but was planning on mixing it up with veggies and I feed about half a cup with kibble. Do you think this will be ok? I kind of feel like wolves in the wild eat everything so why not our dogs. Granted our dogs are domesticated but I doubt their digestive system has changed much??

I make dog cookies with boiled liver & veggies ground up & mixed with an egg & some gluten free flour or oat flour but I dehydrate them in a food dryer in the garage because they stink up the house for a week! They absolutely go crazy for them, but we're on a severely restricted cookie ration starting today!