{"id":679,"date":"2011-03-12T20:05:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T20:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2011-03-12T20:05:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T20:05:35","slug":"the-crock-pot-is-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/the-crock-pot-is-my-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"The crock pot is my friend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3654\/3490779238_fb4c3deb02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On days when things are super busy yet I&#8217;ve got a craving for a real good home cooked meal, the crock pot is my best friend.<\/p>\n<p>Throw in a roast in a pan and brown it first, add some seasonings, you can even brown some carrots, potatoes and any other veggies you may have on \u00a0hand. Then toss it all into the crock pot, add some water, cook it all day and come supper time, you&#8217;ve got a \u00a0yummy, and VERY easy, yet very satisfying meal!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.smugmug.com\/Homelife\/Bakingcooking\/DSC1017\/1191332554_s42Qc-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><br \/>\nWant a little extra flavour in that water\/juices, add some beef stock of your choice. Or get creative with some more spices\/seasonings or other flavourings. We&#8217;ve even done coke roast before. Yes, coke roast. Google it, it&#8217;s got to be in there! It was actually pretty darn good!<\/p>\n<p>Soups are another favorite here. We especially love pea or bean soups here.<\/p>\n<p>Or fresh chanterelle mushroom soup even!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.smugmug.com\/Homelife\/Bakingcooking\/DSC9654\/1056593567_FGfDR-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What are your favorite VERY easy, crock pot meals? I need some new recipes and hate trying anything new that hasn&#8217;t been &#8216;reviewed&#8217;. So if you have a moment, share a review of one of your favorite crock pot recipes here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On days when things are super busy yet I&#8217;ve got a craving for a real good home cooked meal, the crock pot is my best friend. Throw in a roast in a pan and brown it first, add some seasonings, you can even brown some carrots, potatoes and any other veggies you may have on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/the-crock-pot-is-my-friend\/\">Read more<i class=\"fa fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","category-the-homestead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}