Bob and I have mostly moved into our new condo (hooray) and we want to have an awesome house warming party so I thought we should make something awesome, like....my Dad's brisket! But I didn't want to test out the brisket when we have the party so I had a test run yesterday and I must say, I am most definitely my Daddy's Gal because it was delicious.
I bought a 4 lbs brisket from our local market, Bi-Rite, rubbed it down with Angelo's Beef Rub, put it in a deep roasting dish, covered it with foil and let it cook on 250 degrees for almost 24 hours. I cut up an onion and placed it all over the top of the brisket. I pulled the brisket out of the oven after about 10 hours and scooped up the juices and poured it all over the top of the brisket to keep it moist. When I pulled it out of the oven after the 24 hours I was a little nervous that it was going to be burnt, but after slicing into the brisket we were pleasantly surprised to see that it was wonderfully juicy, and after tasting it....delicious!
To go with this delicious piece of meat made corn on the cob and covered it with butter and cayenne pepper. I popped it under the broiler for a few minutes to help make it kind of crunchy and turned out great.
We also had blue cheese potato salad. I found the recipe online and I must say I was kind of disappointed with it. I wanted some bite to the potato salad and it was just so-so. I'm thinking some dijon mustard would have helped quite a bit. If you'd like to try the salad for yourself you can check it out here. Who knows, you might like it more than we did.
I mixed up a garden salad with mushrooms, tomatoes, carrots, onions, orange pepper, avocado, and blue cheese. I was going to make my grandfather's awesome dressing for the salad but ended up not really having everything I needed at the last minute, it's okay we'll try again next time.
To satiate our practice guests I picked up a fruit platter and a couple of different kinds of cheese with rye triskets, and made my own guacamole to go with chips and salsa. As per usual, especially with my family, I made way too much food so we ended up with a lot of leftovers. The brisket was a success and we ate almost all of it, there's just enough left over to make fajitas. I'm pretty excited about this plan and will update you on how delicious it is.
We now know that I can replicate the awesome brisket and we're really excited about the house warming!
:)M
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