Sometimes I even cook for the dog...

my happy dog - Max

The weather has been crappy and rainy lately, and the dog has been moping around the house.  To cheer her up, I decided to make her a batch of homemade dog bones.  They made a good treat for watching the Puppy Bowl with her today.  A couple of years ago, I found a cookbook called "The Doggy Bone Cookbook".  It comes with a little red, plastic bone cookie cutter.  Since these days, everything at the pet store is imported from China, and apparently the Chinese dislike dogs enough to poison them with things like melamine, I figured it couldn't hurt to start baking my own dog treats once in a while.  The book has a variety of different flavors.  Max has tried the "peamutt butter" and the "trick & treat" pumpkin bones. 

Chasing cheese doggy bones (and stars)

Today we tried the "chasing cheese" bones.

To make a batch of Chasing Cheese bones, you will need:
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
2 tbsp softened margarine
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup milk

preheat the oven to 375. Mix together the cheese and the margarine.  I really mashed the cheese up so it would mix in well.  Then stir in the flour and the milk.  I used an extra 1/4 of milk, because the mixture was still a little dry.  Then roll these out to 1/4 inch thickness, and cut into shapes with a cookie cutter.  For a special treat, I mixed a few bacon bits into a few of the dough balls that i rolled out.  Max loves them, and I feel safe giving her these, cause they're made out of stuff I would eat.

for more doggy bone recipes, check out the Doggy Bone Cookbook by Michele Bledsoe