Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!! Corned Beef

Hope you're all wearing green today, because everyone is Irish on March 17! I love this holiday. Being almost 100% Irish, I've always enjoyed going about my day and seeing everyone wearing green and being cheerful. My Dutch husband also loves this day for another reason: corned beef. I usually make it a few times around this day and he never gets tired of it. Corned beef is super easy and you can easily make it in a crockpot as well.

Ingredients:

2-3 pound corned beef brisket
1 spice packet (usually comes with the corned beef package)
salt and pepper
2 cups water

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove brisket from package and dry with paper towels.

2. Place the brisket in a dutch oven, fat side up. Add the water, till the brisket is surrounded by 1 inch of water. Sprinkle the spice packet all over brisket. Add some fresh cracked pepper and a pinch of salt. Be very lite on the salt, since the brisket is already cured and has salt in it.

3. Cover the dutch oven and place in the preheated oven. Roast for about 2 1/2 hours. Remove from the oven, remove the lid and turn up the oven to 375 degrees. Place back in the oven for 10 minutes more.

4. Remove from oven and let rest for about 20 minutes. Slice and enjoy!

Place in pot, fat side up.

Add water, spices, salt and pepper and through in the oven.

Boil some cabbage while the brisket is resting.

Slice and enjoy!