{"id":158,"date":"2005-11-18T12:38:45","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T18:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=158"},"modified":"2005-11-18T12:39:29","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T18:39:29","slug":"my-kingdom-for-a-baster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2005\/11\/18\/my-kingdom-for-a-baster\/","title":{"rendered":"My kingdom for a baster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meals are stacking up fast and furious heading into the holidays.  It&#8217;s a bit daunting to think of all the things I&#8217;ll be cooking between now and January 1, but it&#8217;s also going to be a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I made my first batch of chicken stock using the remains of a chicken I baked to have around for meat.  It turned out pretty well.  I turned around and used the stock (technically, I guess, it was a broth) for a batch of sausage barley soup with cabbage.  Now <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> comfort food.  I also have a couple pork chops w\/ sauerkraut that I need to finish up ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to imagine getting any of this done without a crockpot.  My SmartPot has got to be one of the best investments I&#8217;ve made in the last five years.  For example, the barley soup I made would&#8217;ve taken a lot more of my attention had I not been able to throw all the ingredients into the SmartPot and let it cook while I was at work.  If you have information that crockpots cause cancer, I don&#8217;t want to hear about it.  And I doubt I&#8217;d stop cooking with it even if I knew.  It&#8217;s just too handy.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for my trusty crock is a batch of <a href=\"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=137\">squash bisque with bourbon<\/a>.   Also on deck is another go at Marcella Hazan&#8217;s bolognese, which is not only delicious but very comforting to make.  Play <em>Le nozze di Figaro<\/em> real loud and just spend a couple hours knocking around the kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meals are stacking up fast and furious heading into the holidays. It&#8217;s a bit daunting to think of all the things I&#8217;ll be cooking between now and January 1, but it&#8217;s also going to be a lot of fun. Recently I made my first batch of chicken stock using the remains of a chicken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","category-meals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-2y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}