Crockpot Corned Beef and cabbage

Happy Birthday Joy!

the many faces of Joy Nicole

     Tonight is Shabbat and we are also celebrating Joy's 29th birthday. Joy requested corned beef and cabbage for her birthday dinner...are you jealous Jessica? Wish you were here. Joy also requested no cake.. but we did have coffee/chocolate ice cream with macadamia cookies...

Ingredients

• 5-6 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 small onion, cut into wedges
• 3 cups of water
• 2 TBSP sugar
• 2 TBSP vinegar
• 8 oz beer
• 4 lbs corned beef brisket
• 1 (1 lb) bag of baby carrots
• 1 lb small red potatoes, quartered
• 1 head of green cabbage, cut into wedges
• —-seasoning packet ingredients—–
• {leave this out if you are using the packet that comes with the meat.}
• ½ tsp mustard seeds
• 2 bay leaves, crushed
• 8 Allspice berries
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp pepper

Instructions

1. First place onion wedges and garlic at the bottom of your crockpot. This is going to act as a stand for your meat, so it doesn’t touch the bottom and dry out. Place beef on top of onions and garlic.
2. Next, mix together water, beer, sugar and vinegar.
3. Pour over beef and they sprinkle seasoning packet over meat. If you are using my homemade corned beef seasoning packet, simply mix together the mustard seeds, bay leaves, allspice berries, salt and pepper and sprinkle on top of beef.
4. Set crockpot, cover and cook on LOW for 8 hours.
5. After 4 hours of cooking, add in potatoes and carrots.Cover and continue cooking
6. When 1 hour remains, add cabbage to the crockpot. Cover and continue cooking for the remainder of the time.