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.