Bow Wow Nam Nam

This morning before I woke up I knew I wanted to bake something. Sometimes I am like that...before I wake up I know I want to do something and today it was baking. I am trying to limit my baking for we humans to Saturday. So I decided today would be some baked nam nams for the four legged babies in this house. 


I began by searching the internet for dog biscuit recipes. There are a million out there, just in case you´re wondering. Seems like everyone has tried their hand at making a treat for our fur babies and I understand why, when you love them like family members its only natural you want to make them something nice to eat. I found the following recipe HERE.  Again, you can pretty much choose whatever you want. I just wanted some measurements to follow as far as how much dry vs how much wet. Then I did my own thing. I made one flavor with beef broth. Another batch with cheddar cheese and bacon pieces, and a third batch with fish flavor using tuna juice and seal oil and fish broth. 

I kept pretty much all my dry ingredients the same in each batch and just switched out the wet ingredients for the different broths and fish juice. You just have to play with this. I also read somewhere that greens were good for dogs so I put spinach purée in each of these batches. Doggies should eat their veggies too :-)))

Mmmmm, yum yum...if I had a tail and fur I´d be gaining weight right now....or at least slobbering silly over the computer screen.....thankfully though I am not.....but someone is.....

My gang tried all of these flavors and LOVED all of them. However, they love most things I make but Bently is the one who is most picky....so I tried him first...and he thankfully gave me his blessing. He never left my side under the entire baking process and looked at me with his big brown puppy dog eyes as if to say..." Mamma, can I lick the bowl?"

I took samples of all these flavors to my favorite pet shop in Hamar, Anita´s Hund og Katt. Basically just to be nice because I like this shop so much and the two ladies who run it are just wonderful. However, there was a little tiny piece of me that started thinking, what if these were popular with the four legged customers and could be something I could do to make money with? I´ve been looking for something that I could do from home...Anita was very interested in having me possibly bake for them and told me to figure out how much everything cost me to make these cookies and how much I would want per kilo. See, that is where I get lost. I haven´t a clue. Same thing happened when I went to the bake sale for humans....had no clue what to ask for my stuff. I just bake, I don´t think about how much the flour bag costs that I use...and for my cheddar and bacon dog cookies, I just used left overs I had in my fridge...so I didn´t buy it with the intention of making dog cookies, I bought it for us. However, I will try and figure it out and see what I can ask. Would be super fun to do this, combining a beloved hobby, baking, with my other beloved hobby, dogs. So we will see. My gang is crazy about apples so I am thinking of making an apple peanut butter cookie tomorrow and see what they think of that....I´ll keep you posted. 


If you have a four legged baby you want to spoil rotten, try the recipe above and don´t be afraid to add different flavors and try things...anything made with love can´t be bad....


Until next time my friends....