Fennel & Brans

Here is an idea for a light and tasty meal for our vegan dogs, ours loved it!

Ingredients:
• Fennel
• Brans
• Spelt milk
• Parsil

Preparation:
• Mix some brans with chopped parsil
• Chop the fennel and cook it in spelt milk.
• Let the fennel cool down and mix with brans.
• Enjoy your meal!

Tortilla Twists

Good morning! The whether is definitely miserable so we need to put some colour on the table to cheer it up.
Here it is a tasty recipe to make our dogs and human friends smile!
Put your apron on and let’s start cooking!

Ingredients:

• Tortillas
• Blacks beans
• Courgettes
• Carrot
• Olive or Seeds Oil

Preparation:

• Cook and blend black beans in a blender. Alternatively you can use a tin of beans and blend them.
• Wash and cut the courgettes into small pieces and blend them too.
• Add a little bit of oil.
• Take a tortilla and spread the cream obtained by mixing beans and courgettes over it.
• Roll them up and place them on a non-stick pan. Warm them up both sides on a medium-high heat. This takes around 20 seconds.
• Repeat this process until you get the desired amount of tortillas for you and your furry and human friends.
• Cut the tortillas in slices and serve.
• Add some grated carrot as a fresh touch.

Tips: we used tortillas, but you can replace them with toasted bread. Regarding the stuff you can use the vegetables you have on the fridge instead of beans. Be creative!

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!

 

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.

Chamomile: natural benefits

Chamomile in herbal medicine is considered a medicinal plant. It can be found in sachets or rather fresh in herbal medicine.

This plant has a natural soothing and anti-inflammatory function.

If our furry friends are suffering from conjunctivitis or have watery eyes, we can use chamomile at natural temperature, neither hot nor cold.

Dip a cloth of pure cotton or gauze in chamomile and pass it gently on the eyes of dog, also use a couple of drops as eye drops.

It is a natural remedy, it does not burn, it does not have harmful effects,  it is inexpensive and it is very easy to use! Administer a couple of times a day and you will see that shortly their eyes will get better and cure.

Chamomile has a magical effect on our friend’s skin as well. If they are suffering from dermatitis, or  they have the itch as our Milka, you can give them a bath with warm chamomile .

Firstly, wash your dog with a natural soap: olive oil and oats are a fantastic combination that you can find in any herbal shop, and, finally, when the dog is already clean, a bit like a conditioner, give a final rinse with warm chamomile and pat dry with a towel.

You will help the skin to heal from irritation and regenerate. Our little Milka improved quickly with this remedy: her sore skin healed, the itching has gone and the hair become more brilliant and soft!

Like all natural remedies, effects are not immediate, but they are not toxic to the body and they really help to sort out the problem.

VeganBurgers

Ingredients:

• Mashed Beans
• Corn Flour
• Breadcrumbs
• Oats
• Olive Oil

Preparation:

• Mix a few tablespoons of mashed beans with corn flour and bread crumbs as required.
• When the consistency permits, shape several small burgers and pass them on the bread crumbs.
• Bake in the preheated oven for a few minutes, wet the baking dish with olive oil. Turn them so that you cook both sides.
• When they are lightly browned, take them out of the oven and serve with vegetables.
• Garnish with oats and a few drops of olive oil to raw.

Tips:
We used smashed beans but you can also use other vegetables cooked and blended. For example chickpeas or lentils.
The corn flour can be replaced with normal flour, it helps to mix and make the mixture more compact. The result is a fun and delicious meal for your furry friends…and for you, if you wish!

Raw Fruit Salad

Dear friends, here it is a simple and delicious idea for a light meal or an energy snack!

Ingredients:

• Banana
• Apple
• Mandarin
• Cucumber

Preparation:

• Cut the fruit into cubes.
• Eliminate the apple’s seeds which contain cyanide.
• Mix well and serve!

Suitable for a delicious and nutritious snack, this is a simple recipe, but rich in vitamins and very refreshing.

Sometimes simple things are the ones that we do not think about 🙂

Carrot Spaghetti

Ingredients:

• Carrot
• Radish
• Olive oil

Garnish:

• A couple of basil leaves

Preparation:

• Clean up a long carrot. With a potato peeler peel it into long strips like spaghetti.
• Clean up the radish and open it as a flower.
• Arrange the carrot strips in the pot and roll them like noodles with radish in the middle, leaves of basil and a drizzle of olive oil.