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Mr Libido Incognito > wrote:

> Well might as well call a crockpot braising. Throwing the meat in frozen
> didn't seem to effect the flavour and saved me some time, as I had
> forgotten to take it out last night.
>
>
> I chucked a sliced up onion in the crockpot, then about 1 cup of merlot.
>
> Put the frozen (roughly 2.5 lb) chunk of brisket on top of the onions,
> Sprinkled in a fair bit of black pepper, some italian hrb mix, a bit of
> crushed red peppers, some celery seed and cinnamon. on top of the brisket I
> put another onion all sliced up. Selected 7 hours on high and put the lid
> on.
>
> After about 5 hours I threw in some grape tomatoes and sliced mushrooms.
>
> Very good...I've never tried cinnamon with beef before. Served it with a
> brocoli cauliflower mixed veggies. The brisket just needed some salt...I
> should have added some while cooking it.
>
> Got some Wisconsin apple butter delivered to me thru my son's live in
> girlfriend's mom...so I see some applebutter BBQ sauce in my future.

A smidgen of cinnamon can be interesting in a lot of dishes.
I nearly always use it in any Mexican dishes, or red Italian sauces.
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