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Getting My Mash On. Prep Masha Review.

The lovely people at Wordstorm gave me this handy little mashing thingo to review.

Here’s what the people that made it say:

The Masha uses patented Rotor Cone technology to gently squeeze potato through an outer mesh. The result is restaurant quality, smooth creamy mash in seconds.

My husband used it to make the creamiest pumpkin soup and then it was my turn to have a play. I decided to make Gnocci. For the first time ever.

Steamed potatoes ready for the Masha treatment

Seconds later we have light and fuffy mashed potato

Then I added the flour and egg and parmesan cheese.

Rolled the dough into logs and then cut into little bits and rolled into balls and rolled over a fork to get these little Gnoccis. Far from uniform, but pretty good anyway.

Rolled the dough into logs and then cut into little bits and rolled into balls and rolled over a fork to get these little Gnoccis. Really bloody fiddly but a bit fun and made me feel all domestic goddess like. Far from uniform, but pretty good anyway.

Boiled in salted water until the rose to the top, then tossed in pesto and served. YUM

Boiled in salted water until they rose to the top, then tossed in pesto and served. YUM

When I used the Masha to make Gnocci, I wasn’t initially convinced of it’s awesomeness, because bits of potato were getting stuck in behind the blades and not mashing. However, I have since learnt that I was not using it properly. To stop bits of stuff getting stuck in behind the blades, you have to keep the Masha on and spinning while lifting it up out of the mash. Mashing in an up and down motion and not just on the down. Problem fixed. On my second try I mashed pumpkin and sweet potato for muffins. Perfection.

The thing my husband likes best about this is that the plastic blade comes off so it is so much easier to clean than a stick blender.

What I like about it is that mashing anything now takes mere seconds.

I don’t know if I would buy one myself, because I didn’t know I needed it. But now that I have it, I am not giving it away to anyone. So I think it would make a great gift.

At the moment it is only $49 at Harvey Norman and $68 at Big W, Which is a huge difference. Shop around.

For more info and some video check out the website http://www.prepstore.com.au/

I received the Masha to review and keep. No money was offered or accepted for this review. All words and opinions are my own.

Poster Candy Awesomeness – Review and a Special Code For You

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This gorgeous piece of art is made out of instagram photos and is sitting on the mantle piece in my dining room being gorgeous.

I made it thanks to Poster Candy. They let me have it for free. The poster came lovingly wrapped in tissue paper and rolled into a cardboard tube about three days after I ordered it. That’s like almost instant. I purchased the frame from Ikea. Poster Candy’s photo sizes are a perfect fit for Ikea frames. Like I need an excuse to go to Ikea!

The piece in the photo is the largest size available at 100 x 70 cm. It’s HUGE and is only $49.95

Their smaller pieces start at $19.95 and if you enter this handy code, toushkalee1pc you will get two for the price of one of any of the smaller pieces from $19.95 to $34.95.

Because I only wanted to have photos of my kids on this huge piece, and looking through my instagram account there were more Xanthe photos than Millar photos, I decided to set up a new and private instagram account and re-instagram all the awesome photos of Xanthe and send through some more of Millar to get a perfectly balanced piece. Its a bit of a shrine to my kids at that size, but what do you expect from a Mummy blogger? Now that I have the private instagram acct linked up with Poster Candy, I am totally going to create more awesomeness. I might even finally print our wedding photos this way. The options are endless.

You don’t need a private account, you can just log in to instagram via Poster Candy and you can pick and choose the photos you want to go on your poster with a simple click and drag or you can just click “randomise” and see what happens. The private instagram account means I can create these pieces without flooding your instagram feed with my photos that I don’t really want to share, but I really want hanging on my walls in tiny squares. There is something so aesthetically pleasing about a photo grid right?

Anywhooo. Go and play. it’s fun. And really really easy from both PC and i-Pad.

Bupa Family Moments – App Review and iPod Touch Giveaway – ENDED

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I was at a friend’s house earlier this week. This friend is a new mum to a beautiful almost 6 month old baby girl.

My friend is also really busy as she has just bought a business and what with that and all the mum stuff it’s a bit hectic.

While I was there we were talking about immunisations which reminded her to check when the baby’s next lot were due. Lucky she checked, they were due in two days time, so it was a mad panic to rearrange people and things to accommodate this.

If she had the new Bupa Family Moments App, it would have alerted her to the upcoming needle appointment sooner. The app, from insurer Bupa was only just released this week – as if my friend’s mad panic sent a wish out into the universe and wham! there’s now an app for that!

But it doesn’t just take care of remembering immunisation appointments for you. You can also use it as a reference tool to check all those parenting questions. Like, how many hours, ideally, should my toddler be sleeping, and what, ideally, should my preschooler be eating. I’ll give you a clue, the answer to the first one is much more than she is and the second one is not nutella sandwiches with no crusts.

You can also chart your little one’s growth, just like they do in the health nurse books, but much prettier.

You can add photos and notes to capture precious moments too.

Then you can share this info with your selected elite group of family and friends or you can share it with the world on Facebook.

Best thing? the app is FREE.

If you are a Bupa member you can also have a time lapse photography thingo which is pretty cool! If you are not a Bupa member, you can pay $4.49 and add it on. It’s pretty nifty! I so wish I had this five years ago! I saw this thing on Pinterest once where these people had taken a photo of their baby sitting in the same chair from day one to about age five. AMAZING. I would totally do that with this app. It would be easy peasy and totally awesome. Maybe I should have another baby… (bahahahahaha)

Because I haven’t had the app since Millar was born, we did a quick vid of about 5 photos to show the Time Cam app in action. Obviously this would be way more awesome if you took a photo of your baby almost every day from birth to age two. How cool would that be?

You can WIN this iPod Touch. Or actually, one exactly like it in the gorgeous blue that matches my son’s top.

EDIT: 28 November 2012 This giveaway has ended. The winner (Karlene) has been notified by email.

Simply leave a comment below to tell me what imaginary-not-yet-invented app would make your life easier or more awesome.

T&C

Open to Australian Residents only
Competition closes Tuesday 27th November.
Winner will be notified by email and has 48 hours to respond with a postal address or I will chose another winner.
The most creative, funny or otherwise appealing answer will win.
The item is one 32gb iPod Touch in Blue valued at $329.
If you want to triple your chances you can pop over to Kate Says Stuff and Crash Test Mummy and enter their comps too.

Disclosure: I received an iPod Touch loaded with the Bupa Family Moments App to keep for review purposes. As always, all words and opinions are my own.