The Five Best Healthy Dog Treats

Healthy dog biscuits are the best treat for dogs. They are tasty and very easy to make. Shapes could be anything, but I prefer bones, paws and chicken drumstick cutters. Treats should be stored in an airtight container, away from the sun for up to 1 week. Always remember to spray parchment paper with oil.

Paprika-Parsley Dog Treat:

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup rolled oats
3/4 cup cornmeal
1 tablespoon sugar
3 tablespoons bouillon (chicken, vegetable or beef)
1 tablespoon paprika
1 tablespoon brewers yeast
1 tablespoon dried parsley (or use fresh, finely chopped)
1 cup of boiling water
1/3 cup of butter
1/2 cup of milk
1 egg

Blend oats until coarse. Cream water, butter, milk and egg. Add all dry ingredients and kneed until mixture forms a think dough. On lightly floured surface, spread dough into 1/2 inch thickness. Cut into desired shapes, place on parchment paper and bake in preheated oven at 350°F for 30-35 minutes.

Double Chicken Dog Treat:

Ingredients:

2 cups Flour
1 cup cornmeal
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/2 cup chicken broth
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 teaspoons fresh, chopped parsley
1 cup cooked chicken livers, chopped

Combine flour and cornmeal in a bowl. In a large bowl add egg, oil and broth - the add 1/3 of the flour mixture at a time, mixing well between additions. Add chicken livers until well incorporated into dough. Kneed dough on floured surface for about 1 minute, cut and place on parchment paper. Bake in preheated oven at 400°F for 15 minutes.

Many-Grain Healthy Dog Biscuits:

Ingredients:

3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups whole-wheat flour
1 cup rye flour
1 cup cornmeal
2 cups cracked wheat (bulgur)
1/2 cup non-fat dry milk powder
4 tsp salt
2 cups chicken stock
1/4 oz active dry yeast (one package)
1 egg
1 Tbsp milk

In a bowl combine flours, cornmeal, milk powder and salt. In separate bowl dissolve yeast mixture in ¼ cup lukewarm water until it bubbles; add chicken stock. Mix in dry ingredients into stock and yeast, kneading on a floured surface. Roll out to a ¼ inch thickness, cut and place on parchment paper. Mix milk and egg to brush top of biscuits and put in preheated oven at 300° for 45minutes.

Cheesy Healthy Dog Biscuits:

Ingredients:

1 cup rolled oats
1/3 cup margarine
1 cup Boiling water
3/4 cup cornmeal
1 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons chicken or beef flavored instant bouillon
1/2 cup milk
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 egg, beaten
2 - 3 cups whole wheat flour.

In bowl combine rolled oats, margarine and boiling water. Let it stand for ten minutes. Stir in corn sugar, bouillon, milk, cheese and egg. Mix well. Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup and level off. Add flour one cup at a time, mixing between additions to combine properly. Once finished the dough will be stiff. On floured surface, kneed dough until it is no longer sticky, rather has a smooth texture. Roll dough out to ½ inch pieces, cut and place onto parchment paper. Bake in preheated oven at 325°F for 35-45 minutes.

Tuna Healthy Dog Biscuits

Ingredients:

1 cup rolled oats
1 cup cornmeal
1 teaspoon flax seed, ground
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 small can tuna or salmon
1/3 cup water (or as needed)

Grind flax seed, oats - set aside. Smooth tuna in food processor. Add the rest of the ingredients until pulse food processor until it forms a ball. If it's too dry, add water - one teaspoon at a time. Turn out onto lightly floured dough surface, kneed until soft: approximately 1 minute. Cut, place on parchment paper and bake in preheated oven at 350°F for 20-25 minutes.

A Coffee Diet-I've Heard It All Now

A coffee diet! I've heard the lot now. The next thing you know we'll be having something like 'loose 10 pounds in 7 days with tea and biscuits!' I mean, who comes up with these fat blasting ideas? Or more importantly, who buys into them? You can just imagine it in the staffroom at your workplace. Everyone fighting to get their Cornish pasty in the microwave and there's you quietly preparing your lunch with nothing but a kettle. Okay, ribbing aside, I guess we should look at this diet in a little more detail and see what method is behind this seeming madness.

The article, which was in a slimming magazine, caught my eye for a couple of reasons. First, because I'm a lover of java, and second, I could do with losing a few pounds myslef, so I couldn't help but read it out of curiosity if nothing else. When I got to thinking about this, I remember my mother always telling to drink a cup of black coffee in the morning as it would curb my appetite until lunch time. And she was right.

Anyway, moving on a tad, the advocates of the coffee diet propose that anyone who wants to shed a bit of weight should do the same as my mother's suggested, although they made no reference to her personally you understand!

However, this weird weight loss approach needs to be looked into a little deeper before we all jump onto the coffee diet bandwagon mouth first. I mean, there's such an abundance of get-thin-quick plans floating around these days, it's best to take a couple of steps back and consider the situation. This goes for any of the new found fads and not just the coffee diet

Before embarking on any new weight loss program, it's always wise to pay a visit to your local doctor first. A complete physical never hurt anyone and your physician will have valuable insight into the coffee diet approach, but somehow I can't see any responsible doc giving the thumbs up to a drinks for food diet. Take the coffee diet to an authorized nutritionist and I bet the response is the same. I could be wrong though and you may find through these two visits that a coffee diet is the probably the right thing for your weight loss needs.

You know, we're always looking for the next lazy, or should I say easy, no, perhaps effortless weight loss program, but despite it all, the old fashion way still wins every time. Can you remember the original diet? It's simply to put less in your mouth and get more exercise. That's it! Okay, so there are a few whistles and bells to add like the right types of food and a sensible exercise regime, but you get the idea.

Another thing worth pointing out with the coffee diet is that it's supposedly a quick fix and not a new way of eating (or starving), so perhaps if the dieter uses it as a jump start to a more sensible eating plan, it's not such a bad thing. It also went on to say in the article that the coffee diet is not the foundation of the program. Now this probably doesn't make a lot of sense, so I'll try to explain. Advocates of the coffee diet strongly urge you to eat well throughout the day. By well, they mean adopt a healthy food diet consuming small portions as part of the regime.

The coffee diet simply allows the dieter a moderate intake of coffee throughout the day time, but the coffee has to be pure. Lattes and cappuccinos and all those other fandangled coffee cups are out. Hmm! it's sounds ok, but at the end of the day, we're still not eating properly because the coffee diet is removing our natural appetite and I'm not totally convinced that's a good thing.

One final point that may give you food for thought is your insulin. Caffeine can make your blood sugar unstable. The insulin in your body will not be able to process it properly and it winds up stored in the body as fat. So, if you do decide to take on the coffee diet, make sure that you don't drink too much.

Quick Bread Mix (with recipes for pancakes, biscuits, and muffins)

10 cups flour

1 / 3 cup baking powder

1 / 4 cup sugar

1 tablespoon salt

2 cups vegetable shortening

Cut the shortening into the flour, baking powder, sugar and
Sale. Continue working the mixture until it resembles fine
Ground meal.

Quick Bread Mix can be stored in an airtight container for 6
Weeks.

Pancake

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2 cups Quick Bread Mix

1 1 / 3 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 tablespoons sugar

2Eggs

When the pancake mix seems too thin, a bit 'faster
Baking mix. If the mixture seems too thick, a bit 'more
Milk.

Drop Biscuits

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2 cups Quick Bread Mix

1 / 2 cup milk

Mix well and then falls on a greased baking sheet
spoons. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit
Minutes or until golden brown.

Muffins

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3 cups Quick Bread Mix

1 cup milk

1Egg

1 / 2 cup sugar

Mix all ingredients until only the cooking is quick mix
cloth. Drop by tablespoon into greased muffin tins or
Muffin tins lined with cupcake papers. Bake at 350 degrees
Fahrenheit for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Note: Blueberry Muffins 1 cup cranberries
make apple muffins, add 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1 cup
chopped apples.

LeAnn R. Ralph copyright 2005

Method Madness - methods of cooking explained

Also note the different ways in cookies, muffins and cookies? Cakes also have their own particular way. Why do I have to cream butter with sugar, if so cookie dough? Why should not I fully muffin batter Mix until smooth and creamy? Why be so hard? WHY '?

Ok, I'm exaggerating a bit '. Just a little '.

There are no grounds for the madness, and I am here to explain some things. I'll also share a few tips on how to make yourBiscuits and cakes taste even better.

First of all, cooking is a process that requires patience. This is why many cooks do not like to cook. We must not measure the patience, the right mix of ingredients and things. In reality things, especially when it comes to biscuits, muffins, cakes and quick breads. I am one of those rare chef who loves to cook, which is probably a reason there are so many cooking recipes stacked a mile high in my kitchen.

Cookie method:
CreamButter and sugar together. Sift dry ingredients together. Eggs on time consecutively. This process distributes the ingredients. With cookies, you should not worry too much excess or a cookie "airy".

Muffin Method:
Sift together the dry ingredients (including sugar). Mix the wet ingredients. Mixing the two together until just blended (batter slightly lumpy). Over mixing causes tunneling. What is tunneling? I'm glad you asked. If you mix the dough,Holes and spaces are created in the muffin. The tunneling. A good muffin is a slightly higher dome, well rounded, not pointed. Use this method for the production of pancakes, and will be light and fluffy.

Cake method:
This depends on the cake you make. Angel Food is different from the white, how to bake a cake. Suffice it to say what you want to get into baking a cake more air incorporated into the dough to give it a soft texture. A basic yellow cake mixafter the "level 2" method. That is, add the liquid in 2 stages. First, the fat cream and sugar, then add eggs. Then add dry ingredients (sifted together), alternating with milk. Depending on the cake, sometimes eggs in the second level added to the milk. If you have an Angel Food Cake proteins are folded in the final.

Biscuit Method:
Cold butter / fat and liquids. Cut the fat into the dry ingredients. Moisten theMixture of liquid and wet enough to form a dough. Not to interfere in order to remain as a small lump of butter on the dough so that steam and forces the dough to rise.

Suggestions:

When cookies, muffins and cakes, make sure the butter and eggs are at room temperature. Recipes usually give too soft butter (room temperature), but rarely are the eggs. Make sure eggs are at room temperature produce a better result. Beat the eggs warm cold butterto solidify the butter, no matter how fast the mixture. It produces a fat - not exactly what you want.
Separate the eggs when cold. Beat egg whites at room temperature when.
Use only unsalted butter. You never know how much salt is in salted butter.
Preheat the oven. Be patient. Let it reach room temperature. E - not the door open all the time on your delicious baked goods control, either. You are to let heat out! Patience.
Remove muffins andCookies with the pots within the first 5 minutes after removing from oven. This prevents soggy. Space with shelves of biscuits or muffins (or sweet) also allow for cooling.
For a screen to another or not, I do not admit it always visible, but beat together the dry ingredients. This is fine if it's cookies or muffins and I am not in a competition. But when it comes to delicate cake, flour. And 'the air from the meal and help in the dough to mix better.
YouSize matters? Yes I am talking of eggs, of course. Get your head out of the gutter. Geez. large eggs work better in many recipes. Use the extra large, jumbo or small to make omelets and scrambled eggs.

Measurement:

Scoop and sweep method for the flour. Scoop the flour into the measuring cup and sweep the tip of the back of a knife.
packaged method for sugar cane.
The most accurate way to measure the dry ingredients is to weigh. Professional bakers use stairs. A cup of flourand a cup of sugar weigh 8 ounces or weigh the same amount. The only two ingredients that are the same weight of the volume of butter and water. 1 cup of butter weighs 8 ounces. Just so you know. Most recipes are written for the home cook.
Always measure the wet ingredients in a measuring cup wet. get dry ingredients measured in standard measuring cup. Simple and accurate.

With these tips your cakes, cookies, muffins and turn out to be great. Care to share some withRest of us?