October 21, 2002
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This is important guys. Help me save my lunch. I have pork tenderloin that I cubed. I'm browning it and planning to serve it with rice and a veggie (to be determined). Here's the deal. I have this recipe that calls for pork loin, rice and applejuice, with sweet potato and red onion. It's a great casserole. I thought, HEY! I can capture some of that flavor if I put applejuice in with the simmering pork. I don't have apple juice, but I do have some of those packets of apple cider mix. So I tried that. It smells AWFUL! Any suggestions? If I can't think of something quick I'm going to McDonald's for lunch and I HATE McDonalds. (Not to mention that I'm unhappy about the ruin of a perfectly good pork loin.)
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Well did it taste ok? Maybe it just smelled "off" because it's a mix... other then that.. I am not much help, but I did post a recipe for Breakfast Pizza
Personally I would not use apple juice but a apple compote . With rice and porck in its juice , it is famous !
Michel
Anyway, I have no suggestions but I have a question … Why in the world are you cooking all of that for lunch? That is like a Sunday lunch around these parts of the woods. Only special occasions and Sundays and never in my house. I am such a bad wife someone should just take me out back and shoot me to put everyone else out of misery!
Depends where you're at...if the rice is already par-cooked with the apple notjuice, you're shaking hands with Ronald. But if you stop now and extract the meat you can probably rinse and reuse it to make something else later...something with enough spice to cover the debacle. Szechuan for example.
I must be losing it ... I don't know how or why but my comment cut the first sentence off. What I said was … Okay, what brought me here is completely unknown since the title obviously is calling for cooks and I am most definitely not. And then what is above. I know, I make things too difficult!
If you can drain the juice, do so. Add a bit of chicken broth, some chinese five spice powder if that sounds like it will work, maybe some dried apricots. Do you have apples or applesauce? You could thin that with the chicken broth for the apple flavor.
Or you could take my dh's approach - lots of Tabasco sauce to cover all the other flavors.
Well I am too late probably, but I vote for taking it out and using maybe even bar-be-que sauce...and cooking it till it falls apart.
Thanks! I'm going now to drain it and see if I can save it. (I'm cooking a big lunch today because I have a committee meeting tonight so the family will be eating lunchovers for dinner. . . unless it's McDonald's in which case they'll be having the old PB & J.) LOL
Not sure I can be much help...
SAVED - Okay - here's what I did. I hadn't added the rice to the pork because it wasn't going well, so I cooked it separately. I drained and rinsed the pork, sauteed an onion in a skillet with non-stick spray, threw in the pork and used a LOT of hot curry powder. Voila! Lunch. It tasted good and the pork was plenty tender. - I won't be submitting this to the Xanga Cookbook though - thanks for the help!
Packaged apple cider generally isn't a good replacement for juice.
hee hee hee!!! Now THIS sounds like something that you might have witnessed in MY house!!!!!
*giggles* I'd have opted for plain water at first... and I'd have never saved it. Whoo hoo! You go!
Where is FOOD 911 and Tyler Florence when you need him? I'd probably rinse it off a bit and see if I then could salvage it by browing in some olive oil and a lil butter and serving it with some grilled onions. Hope you didn't have to ditch it OR eat at McD's (that aint food, lol!)
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