Recipes to Share with Your Dogs

I cook for the dogs just about every day.  Some of my favorite recipes to make are ones that can be shared by the humans in the house (since I don’t cook for them quite as often).  Here are three shareable recipes from this weekend:

French Toast

My grocery store puts out a rack of breads whose sell-by date is today and marks them down significantly.  It’s an opportunity to pick up delicious artisan loaves at great prices.  This week I chose a loaf of rosemary potato bread:

I cut the bread into cubes.  (Of course you can make the more traditional slices of French toast if you prefer, which I sometimes do.  But I always cube the portion I’m feeding to the little dogs anyway so this time I just decided to cube the entire loaf.):

In a mixing bowl, I whisked 15 eggs with a generous splash of vanilla and soaked the cubed bread until the eggs were absorbed.  Then I placed about half the mixture at a time into a hot, buttered frying pan and sprinkled heavily with cinnamon (I have no self control when it comes to cinnamon):

After browning the one side, I turned the bread over and browned the other.  Then, into the dog bowls:

I added sliced bananas to the bowls before feeding but you could feed as-is or with the toppings of your choice.

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Cinnamon Date Scones

1 egg

1 C buttermilk

2 T honey

2 C whole wheat flour

1 1/2 C all purpose flour

1 C chopped dates

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

lots of cinnamon!

1/2 C melted butter

Whisk the egg in a bowl then mix in buttermilk and honey.  Stir in dry ingredients until partially mixed then drizzle in melted butter while stirring to mix thoroughly.  Shape the dough into a flat round and cut into six pieces on a greased baking sheet, pulling them slightly apart from one another.  Bake at 400 degrees F for 25 minutes:

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Almond Scones

3 C almond meal

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 C coconut oil

1 heaping T honey

1 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

Whisk the eggs in bowl then mix in the remaining wet ingredients.  (Note:  I had never used coconut oil before making this recipe and found it challenging to get it thoroughly mixed.  You could use another nut oil, such as almond or macadamia, if you have it.)  Stir in dry ingredients until completely mixed.  Shape the dough into a flat round and cut into six pieces on a greased baking sheet, pulling them slightly apart from one another.  Bake at 300 degrees F for 20 minutes:

I found these a bit bland for my taste but no complaints from the dogs.