The Anderson Award for On-The-Fly Culinary Ingenuity

... or, the Andy. I'm instituting this award because, well, face it, when you're cooking, sometimes shit happens.

In this case, mid prep for that absolutely luscious rack of ribs the other night, my stove blew a fuse. This was the second time in two days that the burners blew a fuse, the first time was with a bright blue spark (I think I mentioned it in another post). As you can see from the picture, I had two pots of potatoes going with the steamer full of carrots on the bigger pot. Everything was half cooked when the fuses died.

Meag and her friend ran to the store to pick up new fuses but when I went to put the new fuse in, my finger brushed the socket and I got a shot of electricity halfway up my arm. I figured that it was probably best to just step away from the stove for the night.

Quick thinking bird that I can be, I pulled out my big ole pancake griddle and cranked it up with the pots on top. Had everything back on the boil in a jiffy and dinner went on.

So, I feel a little weird awarding this thing to myself but I don't doubt that someone will come up their own story of On-The-Fly Ingenuity and then I will pass it on. This is not an annual award, it will be passed freely from person to person (this is made much easier by the fact that there isn't actually a tangible trophy... yet :D

So, who is Anderson? Do you really need to ask?