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Baking for The Dogs: Second Attempt.

The dough was nicer than the first attempt and certainly easier to cut with the cookie cutter. The colour is actually golden brown, not dark brown as shown in the photo. Close to perfect except I think they are slightly harder than I expected – well I’m not too sure how ‘hard’ they are supposed to be, and of course the flour at the sides which I added for easier cutting. Should have used cooking oil instead… that’s me when it comes to baking or cooking – just grab anything close to me. :P

Still a hit among the dogs though. They can do just about ANYTHING for a piece of this. :)

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March 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Dog, Food and Treat | Leave a comment

Baking for The Dogs – Updates.

The new dog treat is a big hit at home. They never have enough of it. You can typically ask them to do anything you want when you have the treats in your hand.

The only problem I’m having with the treat is that it turns bad quite quickly – since it doesn’t come with any preservative. I saw mould on a few of them yesterday. Now that we don’t meet Bobby and Honey often enough to pass them some treats, I’d probably bake lesser next time.

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March 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Dog, Food and Treat | Leave a comment

Baking for The Dogs.

I used to bake for the dogs back then but I have to admit that with so many things in my to-do list, this is just not the priority now.

A few months ago I met a wonderful Etsian in the forum, who was very kind and shared with me one of her dog treat recipes. I’ve been wanting to try my hands on it since then! And finally when I had most, if not all of the ingredients ready yesterday, I decided that it’s about time for me to bake for the dogs again.

The recipe called for some chicken broth. I didn’t have any but I did have a piece of chicken breast, carrots, and Italian Parsley. So I made some in the morning.

After all the mixing and stuff, for some reason the dough was too soft / sticky, and when it was my favourite part of cutting them up with my new cookie cutter, IT JUST WON’T CUT because it was too sticky! So as you can see, I had to bake them in one whole sheet…

About 30-40 minutes later, I think it was almost done, so I took it out and I DON’T CARE I HAVE TO USE MY COOKIE CUTTER. So I cut them into shapes, put more egg wash, and bake for another 10-15 minutes. Lovely! :)

And what did I do with the chicken breast in the broth? I made yummy chicken salad for the family at night. I swear it tasted as good as it looked.

This morning I thought I’d take a photo of how the dogs sat and waited for their new treat but gosh it was like a circus, or carnival, or some sort. Coco ran towards the table where I put the treats and snatched one without my permission, and ran ALL OVER the yard to get away from me. When I finally got her after like 5 or 10 minutes of running, I can’t believe that she was still having the treat in her mouth – not chewing on it yet!

Crappy little black dog.

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February 28th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Dog, Food and Treat | 4 comments

Homemade Dog Treats.

If you have a pooch (or more!) at home and would like to offer them some healthy homemade dog treats, I’ve posted up a recipe for Pumpkin Dog Biscuits here.

I found the recipe at a recipe website when googling around. It’s quite easy to do, like around 15 minutes of preparation time will do. And it does smell good. Xiao Bi loves it. :)

And FYI, pumpkin is very nutritious for dogs. Good for the coat and digestive system. It’s also one of the recommended ingredients if your dog need to lose some weight. Very helpful if they happen to have the occasional constipation or diarrhea – yeah it works both way! :)

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September 4th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Dog | 2 comments

Pumpkin Dog Biscuits.

Xiao Bi started having diarrhea about 3 days ago and I’ve got darl to get me a slice of pumpkin for her. The smallest slice that we could get was still too big for her to finish. lol. So when I was googling around for some pumpkin’s benefits, I’ve landed on a recipe for Pumpkin Dog Biscuits. Sounds pretty easy and I’ve decided to make some up. :)

Ingredients:

2 eggs

1/2 cup canned pumpkin (in my case, I used raw pumpkin. Simmered to tender and mashed them up)

1/2 teaspoon salt (I only added a very small pinch)

2 tablespoon dry milk (I didn’t have dry milk in hand so I used about 1/2 cup of full cream milk)

2 1/2 cup flour (whole wheat flour recommended)

Water

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (that is about 175 degrees C).

2. Blend eggs and pumpkin together. Add salt, dry milk, and flour. Add water as needed. The dough should be dry and stiff.

3. Roll to 1/2 inch thick.

4. Cut into shapes. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.

5. Bake for 20 minutes on one side, then turn over and bake for another 20 minutes.

While I didn’t have cookie cutter in hand, I just picked up via hand and placed small pieces on the cookie sheet. Also, I think it wouldn’t harm to slightly grease the sheet. It’s really hard to get the cookies turned over!

Mine turned out like this. I think I’ve put a bit too much of water and the inner part just wouldn’t get hard. I cracked the bigger pieces to smaller bite size chunks and baked again for another 10 minutes. Got better but still kinda soft inside. Anyway, I gave Xiao Bi a few pieces and she loved it! :D

I think I’m going to pack a few and give her friend this evening. It’s a thumbs up healthy treat and I hope he’ll like it too. :)

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September 4th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Daily | 5 comments