The Cure for Spaghetti Smears
Take a 12"x12" piece of MDF and cover it with spare kitchen or bathroom tiles... It will sit very neatly in the bottom of the cupboard, under the pasta collander, and when needed, just get the youngest child / missus / Religious fantatic that happens to always knock on your door as dinner is being served, to hold it up at chest level as you take 3 paces back and fling the juice-soaked, weak, limp, lifeless, Itallian substitute for mashed potato, at the board. Cooking can be made into a game, and is more entertaining if you deliberately miss on the first couple of attempts. (This works best on Mormons with their pristine white shirts... JW's tend to be a little more scruffy already - or have my neighbours got to them first I wonder?)
(Nozirrah turned left instead of right and ended up here on, Thu 11 Feb 2010, 9:02, Reply)