Homemade & Healthy Doggie Food

Angelique's Own Recipe for Homemade Doggie Food

1/2 cup dry long grain brown or white rice

2 cups chicken stock or broth (you can make your own or use canned stock)

1 cup whey left over from mozzarella (or 1 more cup of chicken stock)

1 cup frozen mixed vegetables

2 eggs

1 Tbsp milk or half & half

1 Tbsp cream cheese

1/4 Granny Smith or Red Delicious apple

For chicken version add the following:

2 chicken quarters (legs and thighs)

1 tsp dried rosemary

1 tsp lemon herb seasoning (no salt)

1/2 tsp garlic and herb dried seasoning (no salt)

In a medium sauce pan add the rice, chicken stalk, whey and cream cheese.  Cook over high heat until it boils and then reduce to simmer and partially cover. 

Defrost veggies in a microwave safe bowl in 2 tbsp of water for 3 minutes, grind up in food processor and add to rice mixture.

With the skin on, cut up apple into small, bite sized pieces and add to rice mixture.  One of my two pups is a rescue so she has no teeth, therefore I cut up her food into tiny pieces.

In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs and milk or half & half together and mix into the rice mixture.  Cook for about an hour stirring periodically until rice is tender.

 

For the chicken:

Season both sides of chicken with the herbs.  Spray a sheet tray lined with foil with butter cooking spray.  Place the chicken on the tray and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes until juices run clear.  Let chicken rest on a wooden cutting board for 10 minutes.  Cut up chicken into small pieces and add to the rice mixture.

Your pups will enjoy much better than their old processed food and you'll be happy knowing that you're feeding food that is much healthier for them!

Article from The New England Cheesemaking Supply Company on Angelique

Hey everyone,

Check out the new article that The New England Cheesemaking Supply Company wrote about me and my new cheese making hobby. She included lots of the pics that I sent to her as well. Thanks so much to Jeri Case for writing the article; she does a great job on their blog and I really enjoy reading it. She interviews some very interesting and talented people. The recipe for my homemade pup food is in the article. I've included the link here. I hope that you enjoy it and please let me know what you think!

http://cheesemakinghelp.blogspot.com/2011/01/angelique-haschalk-in-virginia.html

Angelique

Pics of our little pups

Hi all,
Since I told you about the homemade dog food that I make for my pups, I thought that I would show you pics of them.  Little Buddy is our 8yr old handsome Maltese boy; he's such a good pup and takes care of his little sister Coco.  He loves the homemade food that I make but since he still has his teeth, I make sure to still feed him some hard food as well because that helps his teeth stay clean.

The second pic is our little Pomeranian Coco that is a rescue pup and she is the most beautiful doggy EVER!  She was rescued from a puppy mill in Georgia two years ago.  She was just used for breeding and then her "owners" would take her puppies away from her and sell them to pet stores.  Now COCO is treated by Jeff and me as a little puppy girl since she was probably never treated like that when she was a pup.  She wasn't trained in any way when we got her (potty, walking, playing, etc.) but she learned quickly and now she's GREAT!

I will post my homemade pup food recipe tomorrow.  It's much more healthier than the junk that all the stores sell and, when I give you the tips, it ends up being less expensive, too!

First Posting

Hello Everyone!

I am a home cook who likes to dabble in many different things from easy to challenging. I own a ton of cook books and am an advid watcher of a variety of cooking shows. I consider myself to be an adventurous eater but I am married to a very picky husband. Therefore, I often find myself having to adapt recipes to his taste. Example: I LOVE mushrooms and he won't touch them with a ten foot pole. I usually will add mushrooms to my own plate though after I've cooked a dinner for him where I think that mushrooms would work well in. I cook a lot of comfort foods like casseroles because my husband grew up in a huge family of eight kids and this is the kind of food that he is used to eating. His mother tells me that this kind of cooking was easy when then kids were growing up, filling for FIVE teenage boys and no one complained. So, when we first got married I photocopied her recipe book where she had all of her old hand written recipes on file cards. Some of the old recipes actually called for adding lard, haha!

I also enjoy making a variety of homemade sausages and pasta using the attachments with my stand mixer and have lots of recipes and tips that I'd be more than happy to share with you. I've also just recently started making my own cheese and have had three successful attempts so far. My Mom got me a couple of cheese making kits from the New England Cheesemaking Supply Company for Christmas. Although we really love many types of cheeses, I wasn't too sure about it at first and thought that this might be too difficult of a challenge. Making cheese is a science, kind of like baking, and I'm a much better cook than I am a baker. However, once I attempted my first batch of mozzarella and it turned out to be a great success I was totally hooked! If you've never tasted it, there is nothing more delicious than fresh, warm mozzarella cheese and in think that everyone should give it a try. It's also really fun to make and it would be a cool thing for kids to make their own string cheese :)
Please go to www.cheesemaking.com and check out the Cheese Queen's website.

Okay, I think that I probably sound like a stay at home Mom, but I'm not. I'm the one that works outside of the home and my wonderful husband now takes care of the house, our two dogs and our canary. I just love to cook so that is the one thing (other than more work) that I do at home after work. Yes, my husband could cook for himself before we got married but I took that over and he graciously stepped aside to let me. Speaking of dogs, I also make my own homemade doggie food. There is so much awful stuff in commercial pet food. I'll post some links in later posts and it will probably make you run scared too. Actually, it is less expensive to make your own really healthy doggy food then it is to buy the stuff sold in
stores. I'll share my recipe with you in my next post.

Have a great night and please feel free to email me with your thoughts and questions!

Angelique