Potatoes and chickpeas nuggets

Hello everybody! Did you enjoy your Christmas? Here is a tasteful recipe for you and your dogs!

Ingredients:
• Potatoes
• Chickpeas
• Flour
• Breadcrumbs
• Veg milk
• Olive oil

Preparation:
• Boil the potatoes until they become very soft.
• Put them in a bowl together with chickpeas and with a fork smash them. Add some olive oil and vegetal milk. Mix all the ingredients and keeping on stiring, add little by little some flour.
• When the mixture is homogeneous, shape some balls in your hands and coat them in breadcrumbs.
• Put all the croquettes in the oven and when they coating will be golden, turn the oven off and let them cool.
• Once at room temperature, serve!

The Vegan bone is Orange: The Carrot-Bone

Our furry friends need hard food to keep the teeth clean and favor, in the growth phase, the change of teeth.
An excellent bone substitute, we refer also to the vegan bones sold in pet shops or internet, is the CARROT .
It is natural, healthy, cheap, and even for them, yummy.
Cut the ends, wash it or peel it with a vegetable peeler and give it to them raw!
The first few times maybe they’ll find it hard to eat a whole. We must also take into account the size of our fluffy friend. For small size dog, half a carrot can be enough. For medium to large size dogs you can give a whole.

Like any new thing you have to get used to it.
At first they could use it as a toy too, and you will see that they will love it!

 

Bean Risotto

 

Ingredients:
• Rice
• Beans
• Zucchini
• Olive or Seeds Oil

Preparation:
• Overcook the rice and wash it well. Add it to the beans that you have pre-cooked. We use fresh beans that we leave to soak the day before and cook for about an hour.  You can use the ones in cans, ready to be used and more practical.
• Wash and cut into pieces a couple of zucchini.
• Mix all ingredients in the pan.
• Let it cool down and serve!

Forbidden and Toxic Food

A little reminder about toxic and forbidden food as well with some healthy food for our dogs. Obviously do not take in consideration meat…unfortunately the reminder was not completely vegan 😉 We should be more precise about tomatoes: they are toxic to dogs only if they are not ripe. If they are ripe they are fine for them! Furthermore mushrooms are forbidden only if you don’t know if they are edible. The one you buy in the can or at the supermarket are fine from time to time.

Aubergine & Chickpeas rolls

Ingredients:

• Aubergine
• Smashed chickpeas
• Cucumber
• Olive Oil

Preparation:

• Cut the aubergine into wide thin slices and grill them on a frying pan without oil.
• Take some canned chickpeas or previously cooked and smash them in the mixer.
• Take the cucumber and cut it  into sticks, which will later form the heart of the treat.
• Take a slice of grilled aubergine and spread some smashed chickpeas all over the surface. Position in the middle the stick of cucumber. Roll it up and your roll will be ready. Repeat until all the aubergine slices are over.

Tips: for ease of rolling we have removed the skin of the aubergine, but you can safely keep it. If the roll proves to be difficult to eat because it’s too long, cut it into two or three parts. It will mean that there will be more rolls for everyone, even for you humans! Slurp!

Forbidden Food: Macadamia Nuts

In the group of nuts we have to keep in mind that those of macadamia are highly toxic to our dogs.

They are rarely eaten by themselves but they are a common ingredient in human cereal bars and cookies and their taste is appealing to dogs.

Symptoms of poisoning include: weakness, especially rear limbs, depression, vomiting, tremors, fever, abdominal pain, and pale mucous membranes. But even neurological problems such as temporary paralysis and inability to stand.

According to the statistics, there are many poisonings from macadamia nuts, if eaten run immediately to the Vet!

The combination, delicious for humans, of chocolate and macadamia nuts, common in cookies, makes them even more dangerous.

They are toxic even at low doses such as 4-5 nuts for a 10-kg dog. So watch out and check the ingredients in your snack. If there is presence of macadamia nuts, no exception.