{"id":1226,"date":"2020-10-18T18:02:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/?post_type=recipe&#038;p=1226"},"modified":"2020-10-26T18:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T18:51:23","slug":"slow-cooker-bacon-enhanced-carnita","status":"publish","type":"recipe","link":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/recipe\/slow-cooker-bacon-enhanced-carnita\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Cooker Bacon Enhanced Carnita"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve read about carnitas a lot. They always look delicious but for some reason, finding &#8216;pork shoulder&#8217; here in Spain isn&#8217;t easy. I&#8217;ve ordered it before from the butchers, but usually I&#8217;m not that organised to order something from the butchers. But when I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marksdailyapple.com\/crispy-carnitas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Sisson&#8217;s Crispy Carnitas<\/a>, I couldn&#8217;t resist to attempt my own version. Yes, I based it on his recipe &#8211; but with a twist. And a slow cooker!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I served my carnitas with my version of confetti rice! Which was actually cauliflower rice (of course) with chopped red pepper and smokey paprika. We had some guests over for dinner so I let them stuff everything into a tortilla, but I just piled my plate with cauliflower rice, black olives and a splash of Quark (like sour cream-ish). Delicious! Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read about carnitas a lot. They always look delicious but for some reason, finding &#8216;pork shoulder&#8217; here in Spain isn&#8217;t easy. I&#8217;ve ordered it before from the butchers, but usually I&#8217;m not that organised to order something from the butchers. But when I saw Mark Sisson&#8217;s Crispy Carnitas, I couldn&#8217;t resist to attempt my &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"recipe-course":[98,55,60],"recipe-cuisine":[],"recipe-cooking-method":[],"recipe-tag":[69,76,75],"recipe-key":[32,44,20,39,38,23,33,24],"recipe-badge":[],"recipe-dietary":[],"class_list":["post-1226","recipe","type-recipe","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","recipe-course-all-recipes","recipe-course-mains","recipe-course-slow-cooker","recipe-tag-bacon","recipe-tag-cured","recipe-tag-foodprep","recipe-key-dairy-free","recipe-key-egg-free","recipe-key-gluten-free","recipe-key-high-protein","recipe-key-keto","recipe-key-low-carb","recipe-key-nut-free","recipe-key-slow-cooker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/recipe"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"recipe-course","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-course?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-cuisine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-cuisine?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-cooking-method","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-cooking-method?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-tag?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-key","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-key?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-badge?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-dietary","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-dietary?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}