Hugeaux Spends Halloween at the Emergency Vet

When I had my Swissys I was in a group of Swissy owners spread about the country.  We were very close friends, most of us, by virture of the tri colored dogs we owned.  It never failed, one of us would have some sort of doggy emergency around a holiday.  So we would hold our collective breaths until we heard of  that one who had the ER Vet Visit.  Then we breathed easily knowing
we were off the hook.

Well, this year it is Hugeaux who decided to be the one who took the ER Visit Challenge.  Hugeaux is the King Charles Cavalier Granddog. 

Carrie had lunch us and then headed home.  She had a long week at work and was calling it an early Halloween end to the week.  When she got home, she found Hugeaux had eaten 1 bag of 3 Musketeers, 1 bag of Snickers and 1 bag of Butterfingers.  He had left the Laffy Taffy for later. 

Now Hugeaux is about 18 lbs.  That was about 3 lbs of candy. 

I told her to make him throw up, and he did twice only giving up about 1/2 a bag of 3 Musketeers.  Then the runs started and I recommended she call the vet.

Did you know that Valium is an antidote for doggy chocolate poisoning?  He is one mellow little guy tonight.

Luckily he is doing fine. 

Chocolate Yogurt and morning glory muffins

Made it Sunday night.  Cocoa powder and honey mixed to a paste, then the yogurt base as usual.  Ferment for 12 hours and you have chocolate yogurt.  I will tell you how it tastes in the morning.

I will have it with the Glorious Morning Muffins I made Sunday afternoon.  They were fabulous, Frank has already eaten 5 of them and the day is not over yet!

2 eggs
3/4 c vegetable oil (I use canola)
1/4 c milk ( I used reduced fat by Kleinpeter)
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups unbleached flour
1 c packed brown sugar (I used Brown Sugar Stevia)
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt (I use the coarse kosher salt)
1 1/2 c shredded carrots
1 c shredded apple
1/2 c coconut
1/2 c raisins
3/4 c sliced almonds (I used walnuts because I didn't have almonds)

1.  oven temp at 350.  Paper baking cups in 18 muffin slots in pans.
2.  in a large bowl beat eggs, oil milk and vanilla with wire whisk until well blended.  Add flour, brown sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and stir util dry ingredients are moistened.  Stir in carrots, apple coconut raisins, and 1/2 c almonds.

3.  divide batter evenly among 18 muffin cups.  (I use individual silicone cups because I was having a hard time finding the paper ones)  Sprinkle remaining 1/4 c almonds on top of each muffin.

4.  bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of center muffins comes out clean.  Cool for 5 minutes and remove from pan.

High altitude: use 375 oven and increase flour to 2 1/4 cups and bake for 18 to 23 minutes.

This wsas on the back of the General Mills unbleached flour bag.

chocolate with cheap calories

I guess I am all on this wagon about completing some of the UFOs I ahve hanging around here.  I couldn't find the Outhouse blocks for some stupid reason (most likely my room is not quite organized like it should be) but I found this OTHER mystery from Sassi Strippers that was supposed to be done in November.  I actually had it done but forgot it that night.  DUH.

So Valerie B. here it is, ready to be finished.  The material is some sort of silky stuff that my mother had in her stash.  It is beautiful and will make a fine quilt but it frays a bit.  I love the deep green and the deep colors in the red.  And for some reason I couldn't get the photo to rotate.  Oh, well.

Chocolate.

I found this on an advertisement from Prevention Magazine.  It sounds too good to be true.  But it was in the mail, so you really should believe it.

Molten Brownies
Preheat oven to 400 and coat a mini 24 count muffin pan with cooking spray.

pour 1 box of ghiradelli chocolate brownie mix into a large bowl.  In a smaller bowl, beat two eggs, one yolk and 1/4 c of low fat mayonnaise with an electric mixer on high speed for about 2 minutes.  Add to brownie mix along with 1/2 c melted unsalted butter.

spoon batter into muffin pan filling each cup to the top.  Bake 10 minutes and immediately remove brownies from pan with a tablespoon.

makes 12 servings with one serving being two of these bite sized brownies.

Pair with 1 cup of low fat milk for a snack that totals 400 calories.

glen