PUMPKIN CAKE

Freshly baked Pumpkin Cake for my dogs.

First time trying out this recipe, actually I used the recipe of carrot cake and instead of using carrots, I changed it to mashed pumpkins.

The cake turns out o.k.

PUMPKIN

This Saturday, I baked the usual Healthy Oatmeal biscuit and Pumpkin biscuit...it's healthy and full of Vitamin A. I have also saved some of the mashed pumpkin for Sunday as I am going to bake a Pumpkin cake for my dogs. I baked biscuit every Saturday as the biscuits that I baked can ony last for a week as there are many mouths to feed...ha..ha

Give me more Chicken Cookies

Have been busy lately and have not had a chance to try out any new recipe...but this is one of the recipe that I have try out last week and it smells yummy but remember to keep the cookies i the refrigerator cause it contains meat

Here's a canine cookie recipe that you can try out and bake for your furry friends

Recipe:

2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup chicken broth
1 cup ground chicken
3 tbsp sunflower oil
1 egg lightly beaten

Preheat oven at 350F

In a slightly oiled frying pan, cook the ground chicken. In a large bowl beat your egg with the oil. Add your chicken broth and mix well. Add the oatmeal, flour & meat. Mix thoroughly. Knead until dough is firm roll out into 1/2 inch thick and cut into shapes with your cookie cutter. Placed on a baking tray that is covered with baking paper. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes or until hard. Store in refrigerator.

Happy baking!

Hapi Birthday Cake

This is the Carrot Birthday cake that I baked for Hapi. Hapi is 4 years old..he is a bit overweight...

He loves to eat biscuits & Greenies..Hapi could not take his picture with his birthday cake as he will finished the cake before the picture is taken..ha..ha

Spinach Biscuit

Freshly baked biscuit ...out from the oven

Green Green Spinach Biscuit ready to go into the oven

This Saturday, I have tried a new biscuit recipe..."Spinach Biscuit". Ingredients include ground spinach, eggs, chicken broth, whole wheat flour & canola oil. The color of the un baked biscuit look so lovely before

The dogs love it so much as the biscuits turns out very crunchy....and its smell yummy too. It is also another very healthy treats for the boys & girls.

Tiki & Jolly

Jolly

Tiki

Tiki & Jolly

My husband & I rescued 5 puppies from a shop house in September 2007. The puppies belonged to Natasha..a dog that stay in the shophouse area. My husband is feeding Natasha daily with cooked meal from home. The 5 puppies are 2 females - Jolly & Lulu, 3 males - Lucky, Tiki & Bozo. We rescued the puppies from the mother Natasha because Natasha is so skinny and her body is unable to recover after giving birth, she also do not have much milk to feed the puppies. We separated Natasha from her puppies as we afraid that she might died, she lost her appetites, she is so skinny and you can see the bones from her body. We have no where to keep the puppies, we temporary kept the puppies in the warehouse...feed them and toilet trained the puppies. Luckily we are able to rehome some of the puppies. The remaining 2 puppies are Tiki & Jolly that we are unable to find them a home so we kept them in our house. Natasha recovered and she now put on weight...healthy & happy. My husband & myself later sent Natasha to the vet for spaying. She is now healthy and happy, we fed her home-cooked meal from home, we also put her on the worming tablets

In Brunei, we have a lot of stray dogs on the street...those are abandoned puppies/dogs and the numbers are growing. It's really sad to see this skinny stray dogs wandering around searching for food. Sometimes, people will kick them, throw stones at them, most of them are killed when trying to cross the roads. Recently, many kind-hearted people had come together and set-up Brunei first Animal Shelter, these people are all volunteers trying to save and help those poor stray dogs and puppies. I am also one of the member of the Animal Shelter Brunei and I hope more people will join us as members to help prebent cruelty to animals and to help stray cats & dogs in Brunei.

Recipe: Salmon Burger

Hi...I'm back...as usual so busy with work and have not time to update my blog.
If your dogs love Salmon...you can try out the recipe below.

Salmon Burger

1 1/4 pound salmon fish fillet (remove skin & bone)
1 large egg
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup of porridge


Method:
1) Steam Salmon fillet
2) Place all ingredients in a large bowl except the oil and combine well
3) Refrigerate at least 1 hour orovernight.
4) Shape the mixture into burger shape
5) Place a large skillet over high heat and when it's hot, add the oil
6) Add the burgers and cooked until brown..3 to 5 minutes on each side
7) set aside to cool in room temperature

Veggie Biscuit

Hi,

It's been a while that I have not updated my blog...blame it on my work.

Have taken 2 days off during Chinese New Year and I have tried out this very healthy biscuit recipe "Veggie Biscuit". I used whole wheat flour, canola oil, broccoli, green peas, carrots or pumpkins and freshly cooked chicken broth.

At first, I am a abit worried that my dogs will not like the smell of veggie...but luckily they like the biscuit luckily even the picky eater "Hapi" like the biscuit too..

I wanted to bake some very healthy biscuits for my dogs, once a while they will have the Liver biscuits or treats and most of the time they will eat the "Healthy Biscuit" that consist of Oatmeal. The funny things about my dogs is that they never get bored with their daily Oatmeal breakfast. They still jumped around and happily waiting for their breakfast each morning.

Happy Chinese New Year

Hi,

Wishing every one a Happy Chinese New Year and May the Ox Year bring you good health, happiness and prosperity this year.

Best wishes from
Mike, Tom, Hapi, Jolly, Tiki and Kon

Recipe: Chicken Meatloaf

Have been exhausted recently from my new job therefore did not have time at all to update my blog recently. Please try out the following recipe, your furry friends will love it.

Recipe: Chicken Meatloaf

800g Minced Chicken
200g cooked porridge
2 eggs
4 cooked (hard-boiled) eggs

Method:

Preheat oven to 200 degree celsius

In a big bowl, add in cooked porridge, minced chicken, eggs and mixed well

Put half of the above in a square baking tin and put sliced hard-boiled eggs on top and then pour the remaining mixture on top

Put in to Oven and baked for 30 minutes or insert a toothpick in the centre and when the toothpick come out clean then the meatloaf is cooked.

Protein

Protein are the most critical componet of food for our canine friends. Dogs need proteins to produce hairs, nails, tendons, cartilage and all the connective tissues that support the rest of the tissues and organs in the body so adequate proteins is important for dog's growth and proper development, for muscle development and strength, for a functioning immune system, for the production of functioning hormones, for the proper volume of blood, for injury repair and prevention and much much more.

Protein is the most important of all the nutrients in dogs food.

Dogs can get proteins from both animal and plant resources. Example of complete protein resources that come from animals are eggs, lean meat.

Dogs major source of proteins should be animal products not grains. Don't buy a dog food that contains soyabean meal, soy flour or corn gluten meal. Dogs that have sufficient enzymes to digest them.

Chicken & Rice Biscuit

Last Sunday, I tried out a new dog biscuit recipe...Chicken & Rice Biscuit. Ingredients are Minced chicken, chicken broth, canola oil, whole wheat flour.

Compared with the Beef Barley biscuit that I previously baked, I think the Chicken & Rice biscuit smell much more better than the Beef Barley biscuit. Probably because I don't eat beef that's why I find the Beef Barley biscuit not as good as the Chicken & Rice biscuit.

I will be trying out a mixed veggie biscuit later.

Beef

A friend who has a Shih Tzu dog told me that she never feed her dog with beef as according to her that her dog suffer from skin itchiness (skin allergy) when consuming beef as part of her meal. If beef was given to her dog, the skin problems will occur again. She advise me not to feed my dogs with beef...I am wondering if anyone out there facing the same problems.

I ony feed my dogs with stewed beef once a week.

Healthy Dog Biscuit

My sister just got back from UK and bought me a pack of cookie cutter with various shapes. So decided to bake some Healthy dog biscuits on Christmas day for my dogs.

I like the shape of the cookie cutter....so cute!

Beef Barley Biscuit

Finished baking Beef Barley Biscuit....I think it's quite difficult to roll the dough as the barley keep on falling out...but lucklily the finished products are successful. Have to wait for the feedback from other doggies to see if they like this biscuit.

As usual, Hapi, Jolly, Mike & Tom love the biscuit...except Tiki who is a picky eater, all newly introduced biscuit for Tiki, he will needs time to like the biscuit...fussy!

Pumpkin Biscuit

This afternoon, I baked Healthy Biscuit and Pumpkin Biscuit...runing out of time so for the Beef Barley Biscuit, I will have to bake tomorrow afternoon.

Biscuit making

Most of the basic dog biscuit ingredients are simple like whole wheat flour, eggs, honey, dog's milk powder, canola oil, chicken or beef broth and for a premium biscuit that include fish, chicken or beef liver, minced beef or chicken, carrot, pumpkin, barley or apple...will take up more time to do the preparation.

The amount of beef or chicken broth to be used, sometime if I followed the quantity stated in the recipe book, the dough turns out to be too wet & sticky and it's impossible to roll the dough and require a lot of flour to be put on the wooden board & rolling pin. Now, I add in the liquid spoon by spoon to make sure they are in the right quantity and the dough turn out to be just the right texture.

For premium biscuit that I baked, like Fish Biscuit-my mom bought me fresh fish from the wet market and then cleaned the fish. My mom will steamed or boiled the fish, then removed the bones and only keep the meat and the fish stock. I will blend the meat & fish stock in the blender to puree. For carrot biscuits, I normally steam or boiled the carrot till cooked and then blend the cooked carrot as I am too lazy to use a fork to make the carrot into mashed carrot. Well for the chicken or liver biscuit, as usual the liver will be cleaned to remove all the fats around and cut into small pieces and fry with canola oil till cooked and again blend into puree. For barley, have to cook a few hours earlier to make sure that barley is properly cooked. And for the apples, I normally peel the skin and grated the apple by hand, I use the grated apple & the juice for the biscuits.

For the chicken broth or beef broth, I normally use freshly cooked one that prepared in the morning.

All my basic biscuits are coated with a layer of egg yolk to make the biscuit looks shinny and smells yummy too.

It's time consuming, I normally start baking in the afternoon, if there are more than 2 types of biscuits to be baked, I will have to bake until 8pm or 9pm. The biscuit stick is more easier to make as I only need to roll the dough by hand into a stick shape, I do not have to cut the dough one by ine using a cookie cutter.

These dog biscuits require at least 30 minutes to bake...

Dog Biscuits

This Friday evening I will bake Healthy Biscuit Stick and on Saturday afternoon I will bake Carrot Biscuit or Pumpkin Biscuit and Beef Barley Biscuit. If my mom decided to cook pumpkin on Saturday then I will ask her for some pumpkin for the biscuit if not I will have to switch to Carrot. Pumpkin can be consumed by dogs but not in large quantities.

Pumpkin is good for constipation, if dogs consume a lot of pumpkin, the stool will be soft. Pumpkin is also consist of Vitamin A.

I am trying out this new recipe - Beef Barley Biscuit which I have to fry the beef till cooked and put it into the blender together with cooked barley and blend into puree.

On Sunday, I will try out a baked meatloaf recipe for my dog

Fish Biscuit

Yesterday, I baked Healthy dog biscuit and stick and Fish Biscuit...as my dogs like the Fish biscuit and I thin it smell nice and yummy.

Next weekend, I will try out some new recipe...still deciding on which one to try

Doggie Softies

Recently, during the evenings I had spent my all my time sewing these scottie dogs...I think they are super cute....and make a good Christmas gifts.

Next Saturday, I will try and bake some special Christmas biscuits for all the doggies that I know and deliver to them the next day....I hope that I will not be lazy on Christmas day as I promised to cook a special Christmas meal for all my doggies at home..ha...ha