Dinner Disaster

I had a recipe I'd been saving for a while, waiting to get all the ingredients in the house at one time, and to have the time to put it together. But once that was all lined-up, it was going in the Crock Pot so it would be no fuss, no bother.

And unfortunately, no taste.  I'm not going to post the recipe because it was pretty terrible and I don't want to inflict that on you, but I'll tell you some of the ingredients.

Pork pieces, cut for stew
Sweet Potatoes, cut for stew
Ro-Tel Tomatoes & Peppers
Onion

So far, it has things my family likes.  There were other ingredients as well. It said to cook for 7 hours. By the time that happened, the flavor was GONE from the pork, and the vegetables were MUSH.

We ate it, since there wasn't another option yesterday evening, but I apologized to my family and said "I won't even TRY to tweak this one. It is BANISHED." The look of gratitude in their eyes was wonderful to behold.

This is why I hate crockpot cooking. It is too easy to turn things to mush, and cook all the flavor out. Ick.

It does make good hot cocoa though.

So what do you do when a recipe turns out to be a mistake?  

(Remember, we don't have a dog)