Best corned beef I've ever made!!!

[Alfred]

Hey gang,

OK - So here's the recipe for today's corned beef - As improvised from the posts above -

I browned the corned beef in the cast iron skillet with a little olive oil
put the corned beef in the crock pot
Sauteed one large sweet onion in the pan drippings, added it to the corned beef in the crock pot with just a little extra water, maybe 1/2 cup or so
added two stalks celery, chopped
added two tablespoons hickory liquid smoke
Cooked 4-5 hours on high in crock pot.
Removed corned beef from crock pot
Peeled and cut 5 potatoes, boiled in saucepan until done with the potliquor from the crockpot
added course ground black pepper to taste
Added frozen peas and carrots to the potatoes for just the last few minutes
served corned beef with peas/carrots/potatoes like a pot roast/stew

Received rave reviews from sweet wife, kids liked it, too. No corned beef leftover!

Also made fresh bread in the bread machine to go with it.

Improvised a cold tomato salad with three fresh tomatoes (diced), 1/2 stalk celery (chopped), 1/4 sweet onion (chopped), about 1/4th box rotatini whole wheat pasta, some dried basil, mixed generously with bottled Italian dressing, then chilled in refrigerator.

Served with iced green tea!

Awwsome!

AL

[S. Heisley]

YUM! Sounds great! Sorry I missed your post yesterday, Al; but, it seems you did just fine!

[theshoer]

Hi every one this is my first post since introducing myself.

I like corned beef and pastrami so I started making my own

Take a brisket or tritip (or any piece of meat really) Soak it in a brine for about 7 days, can't find my recipe right now, we have been doing some remodeling but the brine is something like

2 cups kosher salt
3 table spoons pickling spice
2 tablespoons of pink pickling salt
1 gallon water

brink to boil then let cool to room temp. then put the meat in the brine and soak for 7 days, checking and turning daily. If you do not add the pink pickling salt the corned beef will look grey at the end of the 7 days, it will still be and taste good it will just look grey.


the pastrami, take your corned beef add your dry rub(again I forgot because of the remodel)to it then slow smoke it for about 2 1/2 hours.

It will be the best corned beef or pastrami you will ever have