Recipes to use grow-at-home herbs in ways both you and your dog can enjoy.

[Boxer Mom]

Windowsill herbs, grown at home the organic way, make the perfect ingredient for a special treat you and your dog can enjoy. Everyday freshness is only a snip away. Whether you use them to enhance your life or your dog’s, the many benefits these year-round culinary delights bring is well worth the small effort it takes to grow them. Use these easy tips and recipes to make the most of your all-natural bounty.

Wheatgrass
Wheatgrass has some amazing health benefits. Its ability to boost the immune system is renowned. Discover what smoothie shops have known for years. Fresh wheatgrass grown on a sunny windowsill makes a great supplement to a well-balanced diet.

Wheatgrass Smoothie For You
Ingredients:
• 1 banana
• ½ cup fresh blueberries
• 1 cup low-fat plain yogurt
• 1 tablespoon ground flax seed
• Splash of orange juice
• 2- to 3-inch diameter bunch of fresh wheatgrass

Blend all ingredients together. Sweeten to taste with wildflower honey or organic agave nectar.

Wheatgrass Smoothie For Your Dog
Ingredients:
• ½ banana
• 1 tablespoon applesauce
• ⅓ cup fresh blueberries
• ½ cup low-fat plain yogurt
• 1½ teaspoon ground flax seed
• 2- to 3-inch diameter bunch of fresh wheatgrass

Blend all ingredients together and serve.

Ginger Root
Known for its ability to soothe upset stomachs and ease the symptoms of nausea, ginger root has long been an ingredient in wonder tonics the world over. Easily grown as a houseplant, ginger makes the perfect addition to a holistic home with health-conscious people and their pets.

Ginger Root Tea For You
Dice 1 teaspoon of fresh ginger root and steep it in a mug of hot water. Drink after meals and when upset stomach and nausea occur.

Ginger Root Tea For Your Dog
Dice 1 teaspoon of fresh ginger root and steep in a mug of hot water. Allow the tea to cool thoroughly and offer to your pet at 2 teaspoons per 10 pounds of body weight as needed for gastrointestinal distress. To enhance the experience, sweeten the tea with a touch of honey. Pour any leftover tea into an ice cube tray and freeze the doses for future use.

Parsley
A versatile cooking herb, iron-rich parsley adds more than just flavor to dishes for people and their dogs. The compounds found in this super plant mimic the hemoglobin that carries oxygen on red blood cells. Its natural astringent, cleansing, and deodorizing properties mean it also leaves the breath fresh and clean.

Parsley Beauty Tonic For You
Parsley has been used for centuries as a cleansing, revitalizing cosmetic treatment. Make your own tonic for more radiant and supple hair and skin. Just take a generous clump of parsley (about ½ cup), chop the parsley and add it to one cup boiling water. Steep for one hour, cool and use on the skin and hair as part of your daily hair and skin regimen.

Parsley Fresh-Breath Treats For Your Dog

Ingredients:
• 1¾ cup lukewarm meat or vegetable broth
• 1½ teaspoon dry yeast
• 1¾ cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
• ½ cup yellow cornmeal
• ¼ cup fat-free powdered milk
• 1 tablespoon fresh chopped parsley

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Dissolve yeast in lukewarm broth and let stand until foamy (about 10 minutes). Stir in dry ingredients and fresh herbs. Roll the dough out to ¼-inch thickness. Cut shapes with your favorite cookie cutters, and bake on a greased cookie sheet for 45 minutes. Turn off oven, and allow biscuits to finish hardening 10 to 12 hours. Recipe makes 20 to 30 biscuits, depending on the size and shape.

Get growing on a sunny sill in your home and reap the many benefits fresh herbs can offer. With even one or two herbs on the sill, you’ll discover endless green options for enriching your life and your dog’s.

[Mom 2 2 Boxers]

Thanks Tonyia Another interesting article

When Missie makes her dog treats she uses Flaxseed and Parsley in them I am not sure if she has ever used Ginger Root or not.

[PrincessGrace]

Thanks! Norton used to love a shot of wheatgrass from time to time - we'd walk to JambaJuice together and get shots!

I will for sure try some of this for the pups - minus the flax seed though - it does not agree with Gracie!

[My Boxer Baby]

Very interesting Tonyia, I never would have thought of this.