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Beef Brisket

11/27/2011

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     I hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving! What is the most delicious thing you ate? I would love you to add the recipe to the comments section.  My husband and I hopped on a plane and went to Tucson to see his family.  It was warm and beautiful.  We ate well, hiked in the desert mountains, and had a great time with the fam! I have a ridiculous amount of things to be thankful for!
      Now that it is time to settle back into the normal routine of things I thought I would offer up a yummy winter dinner idea.  Beef Brisket.  It's no vegetarian delight, but I got major bonus points from my meat eating dad and husband for this recipe. 
     It is a perfect thing for a Monday.  You can take about 10 minutes to prepare everything the night before.  In the morning, turn on the slow cooker and dinner will be ready when you get home!

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Ingredients:
  • A cut of beef brisket.  
  • 2 tomatoes (quartered)
  • 1 onion (quartered)
  • 1/2 Cup red wine
  • 1/4 Cup brown sugar
  • 5 cloves of garlic
  • worcestershire sauce 
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • sprinkle pepper
You favorite herbs, I used
  • 1 teaspoon coriander
  • 1 teaspoon parsley
  • 1 teaspoon basil
     The brisket should have one side that is fattier than the other.  Place the brisket in the ceramic part of your slow cooker fat side up.  Then add in all the vegetables.  Feel free to make this your own.  Carrots and potatoes are nice additions if you have them handy.  Put your herbs on top of the meat.  You can use fresh or dried herbs, whatever is most accessible.  Add in brown sugar.  Zigzag the worcestershire sauce back and forth over everything.  Lastly add in the wine (feel free to go overboard on this). If you are storing this overnight, cover it and put it in the fridge.
     Before cooking add enough water to the pot to ensure that everything is submerged.  One of the first times I made this I skimped on the water and ended up with hard, dry, totally burnt brisket.  Set the slow cooker on low for 8-10 hours, or high for 4-5 hours.  At the end the meat should pull apart with the fork, your house will smell delicious, and all you have to do is plate the food and serve!

4 Comments
Naseem Pervez
11/29/2011 01:52:45 am

Hi Robin, I saw your web page, its beautiful, loved the story of the adorable chickens. I have to share it with Malaika.
The beef brisket recipe seems delicious, thanks for sharing......:)

Naseem.

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Robin
11/29/2011 01:41:07 pm

Hi Naseem!
How are you doing? I'm glad you liked the site! I have been having a lot of fun sharing my ideas. Where are you and your family living now? Please give Malaika a big hug for me!
Let me know if you try the brisket. I would love to hear how it turns out!
Robin

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Naseem
12/2/2011 03:33:40 am

I'm good, thanks...:) Your happy spirit communicates to the reader. I realized that commenting on someone's blog is not like your email or facebook where get notification, when I looked at the new recipe that you posted on fb & thought of coming back to your page & saw your reply....:)
We are in Boulder, CO after spending the summer in Miami, FL. We spent 2 years in Pakistan. I spend some good time with my family & Malaika learned to read & write Urdu. Then we started missing our lives here & came back in June.....:)
Thanks for sharing your fun experiences, its fun to read all about them.
Nassem.
PS. I'm going to try to make the beef brisket next week, will definitely share the results with you.

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