Two Meals One Pork (part 2)

It's been several days since I made this meal, and I keep putting off writing this because I don't really know how I feel about this meal.  I keep going back and forth in my head about whether it's any good or not, which is probably a sign that it's probably not for public consumption.

If you remember back to the previous post, you may recall that I felt that half of the items I'd picked up were fairly hodgepodgey.  This is largely due to my habit of impulse buying things that either look interesting or I was recently thinking about while grocery shopping.  Of the two ingredients that fell into the impulse buys category, one was something that had looked interesting, the other was something that I'd brought up in a conversation earlier in the day.

The first item was a packet of McCormick Sweet Mesquite & Caramelized Onion burger mix-in.  As I was looking at the various seasoning blends, this one stood out to me as something that I'd like to try on pork.  I don't know why it is, and had I looked at it more I would have realized that this is intended to be mixed into raw hamburger and then formed into patties, not something that necessarily is intended to be used for an over the stove mix.

The other item is a small can of sauerkraut.  I'd had a conversation earlier in the day about Rubens, so when I saw it in the store I picked it up, figuring that I could use it at some point on either a sandwich or brats.  That was not the fate intended for this can.

As I was cooking my pork tacos I was struggling with if I should should go all in with the extra ingredients, or if I should try to work something out something more sensible.  In the end I decided against sensibility which resulted in:

Sweet Mesquite Pork with Broccoli & Kraut

Ingredients:

1/2 Pork Sirloin Roast

1 14.5oz bag of frozen broccoli cutlets
1 packet McCormick Sweet Mesquite & Caramelized Onion Burger Mix-in

1 8oz can of Sauerkraut

Instructions:

Cut the pork into chunks.

Oil pan and set to medium heat.

Add the pork, brocoli, and kraut.

Stir in the mix-in.

Cook until broccoli isn't frozen and pork is cooked, stirring occasionally.

Plate and eat.

As I mentioned before I am still unsure how I feel about this meal.  The ingredients don't really mesh well, so there isn't a consistent flavor to the meal.  One bite will prominently feature the smokiness from the mix-in and the next will have the sourness of the kraut.  The mesquite was more noticeable in the pork itself, while the broccoli and the kraut gravitated more towards the kraut.  While I do personally enjoy the conflict of favor that this creates, I don't really think that it's a good meal.  Combined with the realization that the mix-in contains high fructose corn syrup, which I hadn't anticipating from a seasoning mix (I really should have looked into that some more before I bought it) I don't think I will be trying this again.