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My Sad Story

 In the interest of keeping my blog real so I remember that not everything turns out lovely, I'm sharing my fail of a few weeks ago. We were having a family dinner with our children and I wanted to do a Cafe Rio salad with the sweet pork base. I started the day before with cooking the pork. I had all the ingredients, including 6 pounds of pork shoulder, and a recipe that my SIL had recommended. I put everything together in the crockpot and cooked it all day until late afternoon.

Then right before my date with my husband, I wanted to finish it up and stick it in the fridge so I wouldn't have to take care of it when I got home. I tasted the pork and it was tasting pretty good.  Then I added the red enchilada sauce that the recipe called for but I soon realized I had added way too much. So I drained off as much as I could and then I tasted what was left.  So disappointing! I have not had much red enchilada sauce in my life and it turns out...I am NOT a fan!

Scott helped me and we dumped it in a colander to try to get more of that red enchilada sauce out of it. We placed it in the non-disposal side of the sink (which has its own drain) and then I pulsed the disposal for a quick second to get the sauce down. Unfortunately, some of the liquid bubbled up on the other side of the sink in that drain where the colander was and we weren't sure how much contaminated the pork. Was the pork contaminated with whatever was in the sink drain?


We had no idea what to do. Would it have been okay if we just rinsed it off and then cooked it in the oven or in a frying pan a little bit? In the meantime, I was also discouraged with how the pork tasted. So we stuck it in the fridge and planned something else for dinner the next day.

Ultimately, after it sat in my fridge for about a week, I decided to throw it out. This was hardly a major catastrophe but I really hate wasting food and I was disappointed after the time and effort too. So here are the lessons learned:

1. Don't run the disposal with anything you want to eat sitting in the other sink unprotected. And,

2. DON'T USE RED ENCHILADA SAUCE IN YOUR SWEET PORK.



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