The Real Bak Kwa Fanatic

Hui Jiejie brought back a packet of Bak Kwa (barbecued meat pieces) which brought the fanaticism out of Wynn Wynn and me. Believe me, Wynn Wynn is always the crazier one, whenever it comes to food.

Something cold yet yummy

This is really NICE!!!

Must try. We can vouch for its palatableness because we have tasted it. :)

It's Treat Treat Time!

Nothing can get Wynn Wynn's attention when she's enjoying her dehydrated treats.

And don't expect her to share voluntarily too.

The Unexpected Present

Her intention was to buy a packet of dried cod fish strips. 

Eventually, she bought Frankie and I FIVE different types of treats! WOW!!!

MM said she bought the treats due to a 15% discount which was given in her birthday month. But she still could not understand why she bought so many in the end. 

Anyway, who cares! 

We just hope MM would continue to buy us all these yummy treats more often than before. 

We would pray hard for that to happen again and soon!

New Treats

It finally dawned on MM that Frankie and I have been deprived from enjoying most things that other doggies do. And so, the first time in our six years with her, MM bought us baked treats from US Doggie Bakery!

Please pardon us but Frankie and I simply went crazy over these new treats!

Cheese Tartlets (lamb)

 Cheeky Dumplings (chicken)

While we were enjoying the treats, we would like to clear the following air:



MM has always been stricter with our diet for our well-being, especially when Frankie has ultra-sensitive skin! However, as time goes by, MM becomes more lenient. While our meals still consist of mainly pork and fish, we will have chicken and mutton at times. MM once said as long as Frankie and I do not die from taking a certain food item, it is fine to eat it (except the taboo ones!) in moderation.

Either she has really changed her belief or she is simply tired from setting so many restrictions without seeing the benefits, MM's change is indeed good news to us. Who knows we will get to taste the fast food soon!

MM: One day has passed. The furkids seem doing fine after they have eaten half of the baked treats. :)

Special Breakfast

What can you do when you have leftover chicken rice?

Well, you can use them to make OMURICE!!!

That's what we had for breakfast this morning. Isn't life good? :))

First Post in Year 2011: Happy Chicken Rice

Do you still remember our little sister, Yomi?

She was super busy today because she had to help MM to cook our first ever chicken rice!

Yes, Wynn Wynn and I are a bit sua ku (ignorant). Though we live in Singapore all these years, we have yet tasted the local famous fare before. MM said our chicken rice was a bit special. Well, her "special" means NO MSG, NO salt, NO chicken fats and of course, NO chilli sauce. Haha... just kidding... both of us do not take spicy food. :p

Conclusion of our special chicken rice: SIMPLY SCRUMPTIOUS

When Yomi's mood = COOK

Do not disturb... Yomi is a perfectionist when it comes to work!

Plain-looking? Look is deceiving...

See how much we were enjoying the end-product!

 Wynn Wynn's face was totally inside the bowl... and for a long while!

Oh yes...

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYBODY!!!

May you have a fantastic year with a lot of chicken rice!

Why? We just realised...

CHICKEN RICE = HAPPINESS :))

Our First Christmas Present

YES! Our first Christmas present is here!

MM said there may be more to come. Wow, so exciting!!! *Woof, woof* 

Dehydrated treats - chicken, pig heart, beef lung, prawn...
What a great combination!

We LOVE Strawberries!

It's the season to enjoy the sweet and juicy strawberries from Korea!

Strawberry - One of our beloved fruits! Frankie and I simply love fruits and hence many of them naturally become our love. Well, we don't practise favouritism. Keke...

There is a belief that strawberries are toxic to dogs. Yet there is another saying that the enzyme in the strawberries helps to keep the dog's teeth white. Regardless of the harms or benefits, MM believes in feeding us the so-called forbidden fruits in small quantity. So, Frankie and I also eat avocados, blueberries, longan, durian and grapes! Since we do not show any stomach upset or vomit after eating the fruits, we will continue to enjoy them together with the humans. However, food items like chocolates, raisins, mushrooms and onions are definitely a no-no in our diet. MM explained these food items are actually yucky, thus we should not waste our tasting effort.  

Hmm... don't know why... somehow I feel that MM is simply cooking up an excuse. If these food items do taste disgusting, why are the humans still eating them and always happily? *Puzzled*

No More Chicken Wings

MM feels that both Frankie and I have been acting more scratchy than the other 'normal' dogs (though we are 'normal' too). Thus, she has decided to stop the daily feeding of chicken wings for a start of two weeks. OMG, this is really a piece of bad news for us! Though MM has promised to resume the feeding after the two weeks' trial, I could not help but feeling the experiment might be prolonged. :((

"Dearest Chicken Wings, I will miss you all.

In fact starting from this moment....."

Ai ya, not this type of chicken wings...

~ Pic taken from seattlewingman.com ~

YES! Natural and fresh...

These are our favourite and ultimate choice!

~ Pic edited from inmagine.com ~

Paw's Fish Balls

When it comes to weekend, we will have home-cooked food, instead of barf. Today, we had steamed fish and pig liver for dinner!

I LOVE FISH!

Hmmm... fish is okay... but I LOVE PIG LIVER MORE!

However, it turned out that the food amount was a bit too much for a meal. As she did not want us to end up with a super round tummy again, MM decided to keep the other half portion for our next dinner. In order to minimize the 'fishy smell' on our muzzle furs , MM did something to improvise our next meal a little bit. Guess what? We are having 'Fish Balls' tomorrow!

Our Paw's Fish Balls

~ Paw's Fish Balls ~

Ingredients:

1) Leftover food - steamed fish and pig liver with ginger and wolfberries

2) Peas, carrot, water chestnut, chinese parsley and potato

3) Solid Gold seameal

Method:

1) Boil potato and mash it

2) Cut the carrot and water chestnut into small cubes

3) Chop the chinese parsley finely

4) Steam the carrot and peas for about 10 minutes

5) Mix the leftover food, mashed potato, steamed vegetables, chopped chinese parsley, water chestnut cubes and a teaspoon of Solid Gold seameal well in a big bowl

5) Place 2 tablespoons of the mixture onto one palm and roll it into a ball shape with two hands

6) Cool well before keeping the balls in the fridge

Bon Appetit!

Back to Soup Soup Day!

We had soup for breakfast today!

MM had cooked us soup of super-sized water-cress meatballs with water chestnuts and carrots. She had decided to start our soup nourishment programme again, after a 7-month rest. Though we can only have such soup during the weekend, I guess it is better than nothing. Mmmm... meatballs, spare ribs, chicken legs, fish fish... I MISS you all very very much! :D

Yummy soup soup!

Sorry, we are VERY BUSY right now!

Heaty = Cooling Time

As we kept releasing dark yellow pee pee and I showing more irritation recently, MM decided to stop all supplements and boil us some cooling stuff.

MM ransacked the fridge and found some suitable ingredients to make our cooling herbal drink - dried chrysanthemum and chinese barley. The humans in the family also drink that occasionally, especially when they feel heatiness. Besides having a cooling effect on the body system, Chrysanthemum also detoxifies the blood, calms the nerves and sharpens vision. Chinese barley is said to be more effective than the western barley. In fact, barley is a superb source of dietary fiber. It is high in selenium which is an important antioxidant. It also clears heat and detoxifies.

Our herbal tea (BEFORE)

However, we did not really appreciate the drink. We sipped the drink with enthusiasm but found it not that appealing at all. No matter how MM coaxed us into drinking more, we simply acted blur. That did not deter MM at all. Being resourceful, MM made jelly out of the herbal drink. Hmmm.... Wynn Wynn and I LOVE the QQ and cold cold jelly! Too bad it did not taste sweet at all. *We wish we wish...*

Our herbal tea jelly (AFTER)

Something New Something Good

MM had been so busy in the past 2 weeks that she hardly had time for Wynn Wynn and me. But today, she's at home with us! *Hurray*

After our morning walk, MM went marketing for our weekly food supply. Guess what she had bought for us? They are DUCK WINGS! MM said it must be our luck for it was not easy to chance upon fresh duck wings in the neighbourhood dry market. Besides that, MM had also bought kunning fish. Hmmm... that sounds another something good. MM said it shall be a new test for us as we would be eating the fish as a WHOLE. WOW!!!

Kunning fish, beef, lamb, duck wings... HEY, no offals?

We are WATERDOGS!!!

Wynn Wynn - savouring her fish slowly... unlike Me!

Chop chop fast fast... I am actually a polar bear in disguise!

New BARF Meat

MM went marketing early this morning, for she could not do that on Sunday. Besides the usual chicken wings, MM had introduced a new meat into this week's BARF menu. We are having beef muscle meat and liver! Well, both Frankie and I have not tasted beef before. But the humans always say beef steak is nice and juicy. Hmmm.... our new menu sounds yummy! Let's also hope our body system can take the new food. Only then we can venture to try the others, like mutton or perhaps crocodile meat?

Menu of the week - chicken wing, beef muscle meat, beef liver and blended veg

Go BARF

Yes, today is the day. MM said we would start on a new diet today, which is known as BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food). Huh? What's that? The name sounds strange to our ears, but Wynn Wynn and I believe it must be something goodie. Furthermore being a modern adventurer, we always welcome any food idea! Ok, most importantly, the food must be edible and nice... :)

For a start, MM prepared a variety of vegetables and blended them into a errr... a bit weird green mixture (Yucks!). Next, she chopped different raw chicken parts into some sizes and shapes, weighed them as according to a calculated ratio before packing them up into individual ziploc bags. Due to our low activity level, MM decided our daily food intake shall be 3% of our body weight. Each packet of meat and bones would make up 60% of our meal. The remaining 40% would be vegetables and offals. But as we were going to switch over to BARF cold turkey, MM would not include offals right away. She wanted our individual body system to get used to raw food first. We see, we see.... *Nod nod*

Well, let's take my current weight (4.8 kg) as an example:

Meal amount per day
= 3% x 4.8
= 0.14 kg

Amount of RMBs (Raw Meaty Bones) in the meal
= 60% x 0.14
= 0.086 kg ( which consists of 60% meat and 40% bones)

Hmmm... in that case, wouldn't Wynn Wynn be eating MORE than me?!?!!!!! *Pouts*

Different greens, one yellow and one white... ready to be CRUSHED!

Our weekly supply of blended green food

Lastly, it's ATTACK TIME! Yoghurt was served as an appetizer. When the main course came, MM handfed us the bones (chicken back and wing) first. Surprisingly, Wynn Wynn and I handled that very well. We had passed the first test with flying colours! Heehee...

Our new raw diet - with a healthy doze of fish body oil, vitamin E and C

Well done!

Well, though everything seemed to be going smoothly, the next critical test would be the detox results. Due to that, MM had also decided to stop giving us our weekly soup in the meantime. We heard that the most common symptoms of detox include vomiting, LS, bad breath and itchy skin. Hmmm... hopefully we would overcome all possible hurdles. Jia you, JIA YOU!!!

Soup Of The Week

We had soup for breakfast again! This time, MM cooked us watercress with red dates. Red dates are supposed to improve blood circulation, while watercress is renowned as a spring-cleaning herb to purify the blood and toning the whole body system.

~ Our soupy breakfast ~

As usual, we finished every bit of it. I realised I actually like soup a lot. No wonder there is such a saying - "Anytime is a perfect time to satisfy your soul with a piping hot bowl of broth based soup." Though we cannot take piping hot soup, Frankie and I are just as satisfied with a bowl of soup at normal room temperature. Furthemore MM's soup always contains my most favourite - pork ribs!

The humans in the family believe certain soups have healing power, especially when using some Chinese medicine and/or herbs. The approach of using Chinese medicine is based on the concept of Yin and Yang, the two forces that rule the universe. Yin refers to the feminine and cooling forces, while Yang represents the masculine and hot forces. Although the two forces are seen being different, they are actually meant to complement each other in reality. As for herbs, they can be some plant spices, seeds and staple veggies like broccoli. Herbs are well-known for their various vitamins and minerals, as well as therapeutic and medicinal uses.

Though MM is not sure of how beneficial the soup can be for us, she just hopes every bowl of lovingly prepared soup will still have the ability to comfort and bring us more joy. Oh yes, we are definitely happy to have such new food in our diet. Our eat-&-lick-the-bowl-till-super clean has told the truth. Thus, please give us a BIGGER bowl of that on next Saturday!

A Happier Saturday

As promised, MM started the day by bringing us for a morning walk. It was a cool morning at 7 am and the air was truly refreshing. We had a great workout for we really panted like MAD after a walk round the Seashell Park!

RUSH HOUR!!!

Habitual practice - Exploring around the place...

Still exploring...

Not even letting off Lamp Post No. 456 at row #3

At last! High time to pee...

Also high time to poo...

Sweaty after all the 'hard work'... Luckily it was a windy morning!

Finally it's time for REST!

Later, MM cooked us nice soup for breakfast. It's just like ABC soup but it was yummy! Frankie and I finished every single bit of it, including the vegetables. I am glad that breakfast is not those boring dry kibbles after all. Heehee!

Our healthy breakfast - ABC soup!

And what was for dinner? It was PORK CHOP! My most favourite! I guess birthday wish does come true after all. Yay!!!

Heavenly...

~ Bon Appetit ~

MM's Home Cooking

MM did a brave deed today. She actually took over the apron and spatula from Grand Auntie to prepare dinner for the whole family!

WARNING: MM is not a typical good cook. Strictly speaking, her cooking history is brief though she does know how to differentiate between sugar and salt. So far only Wynn Wynn and I will humour her by finishing up the food that she cooks for us. We are actually the BRAVER ones! *Heehee...*

Cupcake Time!

When you found excess flour, 2 eggs, 3/4 tub of butter and a half bottle of fresh milk in the fridge on a lazy afternoon, what would you do with them? Well, MM and Hui Jiejie used them to bake the family's first cupcakes! Since it was their first attempt and with limited resources, they decided to do a simpler recipe - Vanilla Cupcakes.

After the whipping and beating, the batter was ready to enter the next level!

In 20 minutes later, the batter had risen!

The final products for us (without sugar)!

What was the final verdict? Mmmm... Not bad for first yet sudden cupcake enthusiats. The cupcakes were moist but quite sweet. Actually Frankie and I are rubbish bins. We like anything that can go straight into our mouths and fill up a corner of our tummies. Let's hope MM and Hui Jiejie will continue with their baking adventure!