Oh, well, I'm OK with it.
Vegetarian Cranberry-Barbecue Meatballs
Ingredients
1-2 lbs. (packages) meatless meatballs (I used one package Quorn meatballs). Use 2 if you like it less saucy. You could also use the meatballs from the Meatless Meatball Subs, without the Italian herbs.
1/2 C barbecue sauce
1 can (16oz) jellied cranberry sauce or 2 C homemade Cranberry Sauce
1 tsp. soy sauce
Directions
Cut cranberry sauce into slices, if applicable
Place sauce into bottom of stoneware insert
Add barbecue sauce and soy sauce
Top with cooked or frozen meatballs.
Cook on low for 4-6 hours or high for 2-4
The cooking time depends on if your meatballs are frozen, thawed, or freshly baked.
The Results
These are, hm, different? All right, I'll just say it. These are absolutely awful. Granted, I was low on barbecue sauce, so that may be part of it. And I'll admit I wasn't all that fond of these Quorn meatballs in spaghetti. I'm not normally a meatball person. I like marinara or "meat" sauce on my pasta, why bother with meatballs? But those meatball subs were so tasty! I thought I'd turned it all around. My relationship with meatballs was fresh and new and beautiful. Now it's crushed.
It's like a weird, too sweet and too sour combination. I don't know what exactly is bad about it, but in general it took two yummy sauces and combined them to be gross sauces. This is an epic failure. It could be the Quorn contributed to the failure. The recipe seems sound to me for the real meat. It could also be the fact that I didn't use the can of HFCS sauce. Maybe that's the key in this one. Oh well, we knew there'd be days like this.
Now I just have to decide whether to dump these in the disposal an feel super guilty or wash off the meatballs and save them. First step is seeing if the toddler likes them. She likes weird things sometimes. If you try this recipe with the original ingredients or with just the meat swapped and it turns out well, let me know. If anyone has a recipe failure story, feel free to comment about that, too.
It's like a weird, too sweet and too sour combination. I don't know what exactly is bad about it, but in general it took two yummy sauces and combined them to be gross sauces. This is an epic failure. It could be the Quorn contributed to the failure. The recipe seems sound to me for the real meat. It could also be the fact that I didn't use the can of HFCS sauce. Maybe that's the key in this one. Oh well, we knew there'd be days like this.
Now I just have to decide whether to dump these in the disposal an feel super guilty or wash off the meatballs and save them. First step is seeing if the toddler likes them. She likes weird things sometimes. If you try this recipe with the original ingredients or with just the meat swapped and it turns out well, let me know. If anyone has a recipe failure story, feel free to comment about that, too.
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