{"id":26064,"date":"2022-09-29T16:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26064"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:04:55","slug":"better-than-i-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26064","title":{"rendered":"Better than I expected&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.I know it&#8217;s early, but I just had dinner that I cooked in my slow cooker all day and it came out way better than I expected&#8230;it could be the\u00a0 best thing I&#8217;ve ever made in it and it was all by accident really&#8230;just threw stuff together and let it cook all day with bottled traditional pasta sauce as the liquid with a little water that I used to rinse out the jar when I poured it in&#8230;that along with the chicken leg quarters, onion, potatoes, carrots, garlic, and some celery I had in the fridge..oh, and I added quite a bit of Italian seasoning&#8230;but I think what made this dish was turning it up to high and adding half a box of elbow macaroni for the last half hour since it thickened the sauce up so it stuck to everything&#8230;.this is comfort food that I am going to make again and again over the winter&#8230;oooo, some sausage would go good in it, too, it doesn&#8217;t need it but I may try that next time and I may de-bone the chicken, too so I don&#8217;t have to pick through it as I eat&#8230;.and I don&#8217;t think it has that many calories in it since it is mostly veggies, pasta, and chicken&#8230;.but whatever is okay since I skipped lunch in anticipation of eating a lot for dinner&#8230;man, I&#8217;m full&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.I know it&#8217;s early, but I just had dinner that I cooked in my slow cooker all day and it came out way better than I expected&#8230;it could be the\u00a0 best thing I&#8217;ve ever made in it and it was all by accident really&#8230;just threw stuff together and let it cook all day with bottled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Better than I expected&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-26064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26065,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26064\/revisions\/26065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}