Things We Love: Making Seltzer At Home
Last month I attended a Momtrends event in New York City and to cut to the chase, they had a raffle and I won. Big.
I won a Soda Stream machine, which makes ordinary water into sparkling water.
I’ve wanted one of those things forever. Well at least since last fall when during the harvest festival at my kids’ school I got to supervise the beverage area and saw the joy in kids’ faces when they got to make the soda. I’m all about joy and kids’ faces. And also not having to lug a kazillion pounds of seltzer bottles of seltzer from the store and then recycling all that plastic. It’s efficient and green, what could be better?
Oh, I know. Easy to use.
My 9 year old set it up in about six minutes. And as you’re carbonating (which involves pressing a button) you hear a sound that sounds like a rude noise that all young boys like to make. So it’s absolutely fun for everyone!
The Soda Stream also comes with add-in flavors so you can make soda and ginger ale, if you’re so inclined. But in our family, we’re purists and just stick to seltzer.
For all these reasons, the Soda Stream Home Soda Maker is the thing I love this week.
-Marinka, the carbonated Mouthy Housewife
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We Have An App!
Big news here at The Mouthy Housewives. We’ve gone mobile! So if you have an Android, just go here to get an app!
It’s free and it has alerts so that you’ll know whenever The Mouthy Housewives have anything new for you! What could be better?
And don’t worry, if you don’t have an Android phone, we’re working on getting an app for you, too. Just sit back and have a margarita. We’ll let you know when it’s ready.
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Spring Reading
Spring has sprung and we are busy reading. Not just blogs and Twitter streams, but real life books! With paper! And pages!
Here are some of our favorites:
What We’re Reading
Let’s Panic About Babies, by Alice Bradley and Eden Kennedy. Two icons of the blogosphere and humorists deliver (!) a book that has more laughs per page than anything out there.
Falling Apart in One Piece by Stacy Morrison. A divorce memoir that is about so much more. A can’t-put-down masterpiece. Truly.
I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson. A sparkling, fun, poignant novel about two women who finally get the chance to fulfill their lifelong dream of meeting teen idol David Cassidy. Loved this book.
What Our Children Are Reading
Our Weird School books by Dan Gutman. With titles like Miss Daisy Is Crazy and Mr. Granite Is From Another Planet, my two boys can’t resist these fun, entertaining reads. They’re even coming up with their own ideas for possible book titles.
If your kids liked Pinkalicious, Purplicious and Goldilicious, then they should check out the latest addition by Victoria Kann, Silverlicious (Pinkalicious)!
In this story, Pinkalicious loses her sweet tooth and suddenly candy no longer tastes sweet. Honestly, I can’t think of anything more devastating. So you must read to find out what happens.
Mo Willems has written the last book in his Knuffle Bunny series with Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
What We Are Looking Forward to Reading:
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
Planting Dandelions: Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life by Kyran Pittman
Sweet Valley High Confidential: 10 Years Later by Francine Prose. WHAT?!
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Things We Love: The Joseph Joseph Scoop Colander
Every once in a while, The Mouthy Housewives will delight you with a product that we love. These are the products that one or more of us use in our home, kitchen, and in Wendi’s case, bedroom. The posts will be about products that we love and use and stand behind. If we are ever provided a product free of charge to review, we will disclose it. In this case, however, we were not compensated in any way for writing about this product. Which is an outrage.
The days of a Mouthy Housewife are long and lonely. Why, there is advice to dispense, nails to file, laundry to ignore. It takes a lot out of a girl. And when it comes to the culinary arts, let’s face it, we need all the help we can get. Because unlike Julia Child, we can’t count on those South Beach unfriendly sips of sherry. We need to get through the preparations on our own steam.
That’s why anything that makes the cooking experience more pleasant, interesting or attractive is a huge plus. Like this Joseph Joseph Scoop Colander
Pretty and useful, just like The Mouthy Housewives!
We love it. Because when we’re cooking something in boiling water, like pasta, or lima beans, or a magical potion, and we are too drained to er.. drain the pot (or maybe there are little kids underfoot, who the hell knows) we can just put in the Scoop Colander and retrieve our masterpiece. It’s heat resistant to 480 F, so you could probably use it on Mars during those interplanetary visits to the in-laws’. And you can use it to take stuff out of the oven, too.
And, duh, it’s dishwasher safe. Because the day we recommend something that isn’t dishwasher safe is the day that you get to yank our curlers out.
And the Scoop Colander comes in pretty colors. Some will even match your glass of Merlot.
P.S. And anticipating a question that is surely to pop up: No, you can’t get more bang for your buck and use the Scoop Colander for the litter box.
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Good Housekeeping @Home
The Mouthy Housewives recently learned of a useful new app for the iPhone from Good Housekeeping (yeah, that Good Housekeeping. The ones with the SEAL.) Since I’m the only Mouthy Housewife smart enough to actually have an iPhone instead of one of those “other” phones that pale in comparison because you can’t play Angry Birds and neglect your children, I was able to try it out first. And let me tell you, it’s a good thing I did.
While there are many reasons to like this app—the Home Decor Gallery, the News & Tips, the Do-It-All Cleaning features—here’s the main reason I’m happy to have this at my fingertips: The Stain Buster button.
Oh, did I not mention earlier that my middle name is “Stain?”
Not only do I have two little boys, but I also have an incontinent 18-year-old cat and a husband who sometimes forgets to put caps back on the ketchup bottle before he starts shaking it like he’s Tom Cruise in Cocktail. That, plus my propensity to sometimes spill wine when I get super excited during a Real Housewives of Beverly Hills marathon, means I’m always running to my computer to research stain removal. Unfortunately, this can take a little time what with the booting up, the Googling, the stopping at TMZ.com to see Mel Gibson’s latest rant and that all means that by the time I finally find the answer, THE STAIN HAS SET. And as God is my witness, you NEVER want the stain to set, my friends. It’s sudden death.
But now, with the Stain Buster app on my phone, I can spill my Kirkland wine all over my Kirkland sweatpants and it’s just mere seconds before I know the proper way to remove it. I also now know how to remove an avocado stain from carpet and baked bean stains from a couch, as well as the number one stain (per GH) blood from fabric! (I’ll let you use your imagination as to what I was up to the night I caused all of those stains in a 20-minute period. I still don’t like to talk about it.)
And the best part of all, the GH @Home app is free so be sure to check it out before you spill something again.
(That is, if you’re smart enough to have an iPhone.)
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