Surprise Sauce

Being too sleepy to care any more, I poured the browned carne picada into a 2-quart crockpot, added a large can of crushed tomatoes and some stray veggie things which happened to be nearby and went to sleep.  Later I woke up to the most wonderful aroma!  What had gone into the pot were one carrot and two large slices of lemon, and now lemon scent is all over the house.  I've added 1 tsp salt and 1 Tb demerara sugar, and am watching it - turn it off before it gets hot enough to kill the good flavors, make a pot of pasta, add some cilantro and call it food.  Rice might be a better match than spaghetti though.  I need to think about that.