{"id":3603,"date":"2011-01-11T17:25:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T23:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2011-01-11T17:25:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T23:25:22","slug":"make-it-fast-cook-it-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2011\/01\/11\/make-it-fast-cook-it-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Make It Fast, Cook It Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Make-Fast-Cook-Slow-Everyday\/dp\/1401310044\/\">Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking<\/a> for Christmas.\u00a0 This is a cookbook written by Stephanie O&#8217;Dea, who challenged herself to use the slow cooker every day in 2008, and documented the results at her web log, <a href=\"http:\/\/crockpot365.blogspot.com\/\">A Year of Slow Cooking<\/a>.\u00a0 I handed the book and a notepad to Jack asking him to write down the page numbers of a few recipes he would like me to try making.\u00a0 He filled the sheet of paper with page numbers.<\/p>\n<p>So far we have had <a href=\"http:\/\/crockpot365.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/crockpot-beans-and-rice-recipe.html\">Beans and Rice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/crockpot365.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/crockpot-tortilla-soup-recipe.html\">Tortilla Soup<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/crockpot365.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/crockpot-bread-pudding-recipe.html\">Bread Pudding<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/crockpot365.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/crockpot-fish-chowder-recipe.html\">Fish Chowder<\/a>.\u00a0 All the recipes have been good, and the Fish Chowder is outstanding. (I used cod as the white fish.)\u00a0 I have increased some of the seasonings from what was recommended in the book, but have otherwise followed the recipes pretty closely.\u00a0 I like cooking, but tend to like doing it early in the day, so using a slow cooker is ideal for me.\u00a0 Not only do I recommend this cookbook, I plan to buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/More-Make-Fast-Cook-Slow\/dp\/1401310389\/\">the sequel.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister sent me Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking for Christmas.\u00a0 This is a cookbook written by Stephanie O&#8217;Dea, who challenged herself to use the slow cooker every day in 2008, and documented the results at her web log, A Year of Slow Cooking.\u00a0 I handed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2011\/01\/11\/make-it-fast-cook-it-slow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Make It Fast, Cook It Slow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-W7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3605,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}