So, even I have to admit that this blog lacks a little pizazz. Actually, it lacks any pizazz and is completely pizazz-poor!
A good friend of mine suggested I change the format slightly and I like her idea, so here it is (cue fanfare) I'm now going to attempt one new challenge per week. Yes, folks: one a week. Without further ado, I shall announce that this week's challenge is...
A week without kitchen roll!
Well, think about it: it is pretty wasteful and there really is only so much of I can compost, so most of it goes into the bin. Here is what I currently use kitchen roll for:
1. Patting dry food, e.g. potato wedges, before cooking - actually I mostly use a clean tea towel for this, but it sounds more of a challenge if I pretend I use it more often than I do!
2. Wrapping otherwise inedible gluten-free food before microwaving to 'refresh' it. Not sure what I will use instead, but will give it some thought. TR will thank me for it. (The thoughtful alternative I shall come up with - not the dried-out, inedible gluten-free food.
3. Wiping up random spills from kitchen floor. I guess I could use rags or a microfibre cloth - appear to possess quite a few of either.
4. Blowing noses when I can't be doing with getting a hanky or tissue. Let's face it, this is not nice or kind - kitchen roll scratches your nose, something awful.
5. As a place to put compostible items, because I can't be bothered to get a bowl out of the cupboard. (How lazy am I?!)
6. Sometimes use it to grease baking pans. Could equally use an off-cut of baking parchment, because greasing a pan usually means there is some of that kicking about.
Well, I think that's about it, but we seem to get through a lot of the stuff, so goodness knows what other uses we have for it. I did recently ask my mum what her mother used, instead of kitchen roll. Her answer was, 'I have no idea, although I have wondered about that myself.' Will try and get my mum to sign up for this challenge too!
By the way, sorry for the bunched-up post. I need the advice of my tech-support department, but he is sleeping on the sofa, pretending to watch the cricket.
2 comments:
Mrs. Ruby's mum here. Now I know what you use kitchen roll for, I can tell you why my Mum never needed it! Potato wedges weren't invented and neither were microwaves. Floors were mopped with a floor cloth and noses were wiped with hankies; compost was put in newspaper and the whole thing thrown on the compost heap, and by the way, left over food scraps went in the pig swill bucket. Butter wrappers were used to grease pans. I have signed up for your challenge, but how do I microwave jacket potatoes without it?
Oh no, Mrs. Gramp - I hadn't thought of microwaved jacket potatoes! Good point! It's a good job this week's menu, chez Ruby, doesn't include jackets.
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