Easy Apple Sauce Drop Cookies

Lately theres been a  cool crisp in the air during our walks, mom has been making us wear our Halloween ties, and there are piles of crunchy leaves to play in 

and all that means.........................................apple sauce cookies.

Apple Sauce Cookies

1 cup apple sauce
1 egg 
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Preheat the oven to 325.  Stir the egg, apple sauce, and oil together in a medium bowl.  Add the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.  Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and drop tsps of dough onto the baking sheet.  Bake 15 minutes.  The cookies will be browned on top but still soft.  Bake longer for a firmer cookie.

These cookies seemed to give Norbert and Weasley some energy because after they ate a few they  had a fun wrestling match.


 

Black and White Sunday-Vintage Movie Edition

In honor of Halloween we have been binge watching the Universal Horror films at our house and I was quite surprised and thrilled to glimpse a sweet little Brussels Griffon in Werewolf of London, 1935.  Reminded me of my dear departed little Dr. Zira

Tubby the Pugkin

Monday Mischief-Pumpkins, Pugs, and Bulldogs at Demarest Farms

October is by far my favorite month of the year.  I love the colors, the cool air, and Halloween.  One of my favorite parts of October is going to Demarest Farms 
 

with a few of the dogs to buy a pumpkin and eat their delicious apple cider donuts and potato pancakes.   This year we brought Tubby, Ping, Weasley, and Bob.   One of the nicest things about Demarest farms is every fall they have a play area set up with photo props for Halloween pictures, if you get there early in the morning like we did you have the section to yourself and can take some cute doggie pictures.

 The best part of a trip to Demarest farms is the food.  They have amazing apple cider donuts that just take like fall and delicious apple pancakes.  Since they have a lot of picnic tables its easy to sit with the dogs and have a nice breakfast.

Everyone got a taste.

After we ate our food we picked out our pumpkin:

The whole trip was a big success with every on good behavior and no mischief in sight until...............we walked back to our car and realized we had a flat.

Luckily Dad was able to change it quickly while the dogs waited in the car.  Mischief managed!

We Got a Package!!!

This year Halloween came early.  We got a package in the mail from our friends Benny and Lilly at Two French Bulldogs, we were lucky enough to win their hug contest.

All five of us were super psyched to look in the package:

 

 And when we did open it was full of fun stuff!!!!

Three Halloween squeeky toys and a picture frame and a super sweet note.

 Weasley had so much fun playing with the toys:

Mom used the frame to hold a picture of Dad and the three pugs and now it hangs on our photo wall.

 Thanks so much Benny and Lilly we love you!!!!

The Felines of Urban Hounds

We love our cats but its so hard to photograph them.    Here are pictures of our three resident felines Baby, Scooter, and Ernie.

Tasty Tuesday-Cheese Ball!!!

Every once and a while I like to make a dinner of appetizers for my husband and myself.  I'm partial to retro tinged classics like shrimp cocktail, sweet and sour meat balls, and of course cheese balls.  Then I can pretend our home is the setting for a glamorous vintage cocktail party.

 A few weeks ago I made a cheese ball so deliciously indulgent that after a few crackers worth I tossed it to prevent any further consumption, but it was totally worth it.

Delicious Cheese Ball

In fact it was so tasty that it got me thinking about a cheese ball for dogs.  I mean why should people have the fun.  If I ever do have a real cocktail party with guests and everything, unlikely, wouldn't it be fun to have appetizers for the dogs as well?  I think so.   Luckily my dogs tolerate dairy well and they all love cheese so my primary tax was defatting and simplifying the recipe.  I can't say the end result is healthy but its not terrible and the dogs sure loved them.

Canine Cheese Balls

Everyone loved the cheese balls even my big old guy Norbert who looks rather stoic in this picture.

 Now for the recipes, of course you can change up a cheese ball any which WAY you like by using different cheeses and seasonings.

Cheese Balls for Dogs

• 8 oz fat free cream cheese
• 1/2 cup shredded fat free cheddar 
• 5 baby carrots, diced

Stir the above ingredients in a bowl and form into balls with your hands.  Voila! cheese ball.

Amy Sedaris's Lil' Smokey Cheese Ball

Definitely half this, I should have.

2 cups shredded smoked Gouda cheese
16 ounces cream cheese
1/2 cup butter
2 1/2 tablespoons milk
2 1/2 teaspoons steak sauce
1 cup chopped nuts

Directions:

Bring all ingredients to room temperature.
Beat the Gouda, cream cheese, butter, milk and steak sauce together in a bowl until combined.
Chill overnight.
Roll the mixture into a ball.
Roll the ball in the chopped nuts.
Serve at room temperature with ritz or club crackers

In the end I'd really much rather spend an evening at home with my dogs then at any silly cocktail party!