Chili Gone Bad -What Now?

"Yesterday I had planned on making a turkey chili over rice. I was talking with my sister on the phone while measuring out the ingredients for the chili.  As I was about to say goodbye I realized that I had measured the rice right into the other chili ingredients.  NOT GOOD! The rice was supposed to be cooked separately and then the chili should have been poured over the rice! There was no way to scoop out the rice as there were other ingredients already on top.  Ahhh! So I thought, well I will try to cook the rice in the tomato/bean liquid and see if it will still cook properly? Nope, didn't work. Boiled the rice in the liquid for about 40 minutes, tasted it and the rice was still crunchy! Dang, the chili was a not happening.  Luckily, I had not poured in the cooked turkey meat.   I had to throw away the bean, tomato, rice mixture.  It was 8:00pm and dinner still wasn't done.   I took the turkey meat added some leftover tomato sauce and poured it over some cooked shell noodles. Along with the pasta I had a English Cucumber, spinach, tomato and crouton salad with a raspberry vinaigrette."

Lesson learned, don't talk while in the middle of the measuring process of the recipe! Thought I learned that by now.  Oh well, better luck next time with the chili recipe. 
Have you ever had a recipe gone bad?  What did you do to fix it? Please share!