{"id":3691,"date":"2009-05-23T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T03:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:34:52","slug":"slow-cooker-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/05\/23\/slow-cooker-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow-Cooker Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my stove-top is compromised (one burner can&#8217;t be used) and I don&#8217;t want to heat up the oven in the summer anyway, I bought a new crock pot. I haven&#8217;t used crock pots much because the recipes often call for different sizes; I had only one, and it seemed impractical to have more than one since they are large. Well, another mom mentioned that Walmart had a 3-in-1 crock pot on sale for $30, and so I went and got it. (Target sells the same brand for $60.) It has one base and three crocks: 2, 4, and 6-quarts. <\/p>\n<p>The other night I used the 2-quart size to roast chicken thighs with rosemary and white wine. Today I made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crumblycookie.net\/2008\/05\/30\/crockpot-pulled-pork\/#comment-5919\">pulled pork<\/a> for the first time (in the 6-quart ), and it was delectable. <\/p>\n<p>There are umpteen zillion crock pot recipes for free on the web, so I&#8217;m looking forward to trying some of them. It just requires a little planning and prep ahead, but then it&#8217;s so easy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my stove-top is compromised (one burner can&#8217;t be used) and I don&#8217;t want to heat up the oven in the summer anyway, I bought a new crock pot. I haven&#8217;t used crock pots much because the recipes often call for different sizes; I had only one, and it seemed impractical to have more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11669,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions\/11669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}