{"id":1560,"date":"2009-09-16T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katrina.effexhost.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/16\/works-for-me-wednesday-crock-pot-cooking\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T00:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T00:28:37","slug":"works-for-me-wednesday-crock-pot-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/16\/works-for-me-wednesday-crock-pot-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Works for Me Wednesday &#8211; Crock Pot Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearethatfamily.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 153px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg9IwiAaRTtv6S1C6Jl4bh3uYkJbP_soTUpgX3CYnMt2fnNGtGQdahN8Hy6gvb3dPEjl7ty251zDTZ21msJQ3N6zV45nzDwzu6CPzmRyztaCInjMELE8SRvc7L6GhxTkPuHlkhUOuKVuZBR\/s200\/new-usethisone-wfmwbannerKRISTEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382119296228146514\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Happy Wednesday! Is it a lovely day where you are? It certainly is here! The air has just that lovely little nip of cold in it which tells me that Autumn is truly here and I love it! I love sweaters and cozy blankets! I love hearing the leaves crunch underfoot as I go for a walk. I love hot chocolate and cold cider and nummy donuts that you can only get this time of year. Know what else I love? My crockpot!<\/p>\n<p>Every year, about this time, I seem to remember what an amazing piece of technology my crockpot is. It&#8217;s probably (oh goodness, this is dating myself..) 13 years old now but it still works like it did on the day I pulled it out of the box. It doesn&#8217;t have any bells or whistles. There&#8217;s no timer or digital anything on it, but I love it! It&#8217;s seriously probably my most favorite kitchen &#8220;gadget&#8221; that I own and I own more than a few!<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s so great about my crockpot? It does the work for me! Yesterday, I made an Irish stew. Now, the recipe originally called for me to spend all this time in front of my stove and oven. Did I want to do that? Nope! So, instead, I layered all of the ingredients, just like it said in the recipe, into my crockpot and turned it on low and I walked away. Eight hours later, I opened up that lid again and it smelled divine! It tasted pretty good too!<\/p>\n<p>I love the fact that I can throw my ingredients into it in the morning and then walk away until dinnertime and not have to worry about it. In fact, I&#8217;m thinking that next week&#8217;s menu week is going to be an all crockpot week. I have some incredibly delicious recipes for the crockpot and I can&#8217;t wait to share with all of you and to enjoy them, myself!<\/p>\n<p>Oooh&#8230;I can&#8217;t believe it, but I almost forgot! I&#8217;m the guest poster over on <a href=\"http:\/\/foreverdaisies.blogspot.com\/\">Forever Daisies<\/a> blog today! Go and check it out! She has some great giveaways and posts happening all week for Creative Week!<\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow,<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/s227.photobucket.com\/albums\/dd163\/kroets\/?action=view&amp;current=Name2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i227.photobucket.com\/albums\/dd163\/kroets\/Name2.jpg\" alt=\"Photobucket\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Wednesday! Is it a lovely day where you are? It certainly is here! The air has just that lovely little nip of cold in it which tells me that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}