Slow cooker quinoa with zucchini, mushrooms and chicken sausage

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 cups

quinoa (I use red quinoa), rinsed

3 cups

chicken stock

12 oz

flavorful chicken sausage, sliced (I use sun-dried tomato with basil sausage)

small onion, diced 6 sun-dried tomato halves, roughly chopped

1/2 tsp

dried thyme

1/2 tsp

dried oregano

2 cloves

garlic, thinly sliced

4 cups

diced zucchini (1 giant zucchini)

3 cups

roughly chopped mushrooms

Fresh black pepper,