Junior League cookbooks are a big favorite of mine, so I was extra disappointed that the recipe I tried from the Eugene, Oregon book didn’t turn out very good.

I made Pork Chops Florentine, which sounded like a good combo: slow cooked pork chops on a bed of spinach, smothered in a cheesy sauce. But smothered doesn’t come close to describing the incredible amount of goo involved. There was something way off in the ratio of sauce to food. And, of course, the sauce got so mixed into the spinach that there was no way to separate everything once it was cooked. It was an unappetizing mess.

Oh well, they can’t all be winners.