How to get me to test for you!
If at all possible I’ll be more than happy to test recipes, tips and review products at your requests. If you’re a rep from a company and want your product mommy tested just email me and we’ll set up something. I don’t charge to test but I’m not going to come out of pocket to review your products so you’ll have to supply it. If you’re just an average joe and want me to test something I will if it is within my budget. Email me at mommy at mommytested.com. (replace the at with the @ symbol. Sorry to spell it out but bots can flood my email if I just put it up like a normal link.)
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter everyone! Regardless of religion, it’s still a great celebration that helps bring in the spring!
Ever since I can remember, we’ve done the coloring the eggs, hiding the eggs, finding the eggs and baskets. My husband, son and I all 3 get into coloring eggs. We use regular crayons to decorate them with our names, hearts, dots, anything we can imagine. We also make our own dye for the eggs. 1 tablespoon of vinegar per cup of water and drop in food dye until you achieve the desired intensity of color. You can test it with strips of paper. (I was suprised at how many people didn’t know you could make your own colors with plain old food dye.)
Happy Easter all!
Sponge Tip!
You know how those sponges get stinky and full of nasty germs? Well, kill those nasty germs by nuking your sponge on high for 30 seconds in the microwave!
Oral B. Power Toothbrushes!
For the last 5 years I’ve been using the Oral B 3D Excel. They don’t even make that model anymore that I can find. But after 5 years ours is still going and going. I’d love to get a new one but at the prices they want it’s just not on my “MUST HAVE” list right now on our budget.
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Vegetable tip!
One thing we’ve gotten into the habit around here is having carrots and celery sticks cut up and ready to eat. Not only are they good, nutritious snacks but having them already cleaned makes them easy to add to recipes and for a quick salad. I take the celery and carrots, cut em up more and add them to one of those “bags” of salad they sell for $1.50 at our grocery store. A fast easy salad you can add to any meal.
Just clean the veggies, cut them into sticks and toss them in a big ziplock bag! They stay fresh for a long time! If the carrots start looking a bit sad just give them a quick wash, don’t dry them and put them back in the bag.
Where oh where has Mommy gone?
Someone reviewed my site recently. He/she actually liked it! Thanks by the way. =) Their one criticism was that it’s not updated that frequently. Well, life has been way busy and has gone through some major changes.
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Seriously Easy Crockpot Veggie Beef Stew
This is a great crock pot recipe. You can add, change, rearrange all the ingredients. Start it early in the morning and leave it on high while you’re around, set it to low when you’re not near. Make sure the last hour before serving it up though you give it the full power of high to make sure the potatoes cook and it gets “stewy”.
1-2 lbs stew meat, cubed
4 tablespoons flour
3 tablespoons oil
salt, pepper, garlic seasoning, italian seassoning to taste
4 medium carrotts sliced or cubed
4 medium pieces of celery sliced or cubed
4 medium potatoes, cut, cubed or quartered. (add more if you need to stretch it for more people!)
1/2 – 1 medium onion chopped
1 package stew seasoning mix
1 tablespoon barley oats, quick cook ones
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Onion Soup Mix Pork chops recap!
I tried the Golden Onion baked pork chop recipe at Lipton’s soup recipesecrets.com. I got the nod and a thumbs up from my son and hubby. I’ll be making a few alterations and definitely making this again.
I will use more than one packet of the crumbs, in fact I’m going to use crumbs that have no extra seasoning in them. The ones I used this time were the chicken/pork bread crumbs and they had almost a sweet taste.
Also, don’t bake them in a tin foil covered baking sheet, they stick and you lose all the crumby goodness!
Thumbs up for that recipe!!!
Reviewing Recipe for Pork Chops
I get tired of fixing pork chops the same few ways; fried, marinated in soy or terriyaki, baked in a pork gravy. I’m not a big pork chop fan anyway. Something about pork chops has always just scared me about making sure they’re cooked completely. So I have a tendency to over cook them.
I’ve been on a spring cleaning spree lately and when I attacked my cupboards last night I noticed a pork chop recipe on the Lipton’s Onion Soup mix box. Today I looked closer and found a pretty easy recipe that I actually have all the ingredients already around the house. Also on the package was the website address for their recipes.
Since I don’t want to plagerize, go here for the real recipe. If you’re to lazy to go there then here’s a simple version.
1 egg
4 chops
some bread crumbs
1 package liption onion soup mix
Combine soup mix and bread crumbs. Beat egg. Coat each chop with egg and dredge through the crumb mix. Bake at 400 for 20 min.
Let’s see how they taste! Will report back tonight!
Lysol Kitchen Cleaner
If there’s one thing I know it’s cleaning. I love to clean, I have tons of practice in it and I’ve tried tons of different products. Over the years my cupboard of products has attained a few tried and true brands that I can’t live without.
One of those products is Lysol Antibacterial Kitchen Cleaner. It’s in a simple white spray bottle, with green and purple lettering and accents. It’s not very expensive, only usually $1.94 or so around my area in Florida. But no matter what general cleaning product I’ve tried, I always come back to this one.
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