I sometimes have to laugh at some of the pictures I take. It just goes to show that it doesn’t matter what kind of camera you have, it’s the user that produces stunning pictures. Want to see my delicious breakfast tacos and cantaloupe I had for breakfast?
Doesn’t that look delicious? Ha! I follow a shit ton of people on Instagram and like some of you who read my blog and never comment, I hardly ever like most of the people I follow for some reason. It’s like I am on the outside looking in. This one girl Amy is an Advocare distributor like Janetha and I know Heather you did the 21 (or was it 24?) day challenge. The other day I saw that she had a 100 flight challenge on the stair master. Her goal was to do 100 flights in 20 minutes. I had no idea if I could even come close to that, so I decided to give it a try.
So I’ve given myself a 30 day challenge to see if I can work up to 100 flights in 20 minutes. I ended up doing 25 minutes all together on the stair master after a cool down, then did 15 minutes of upper body on the machines and then 5 minutes of stretching. It was a nice 45 minute lunchtime workout.
On Sunday I was meal planning and realized I had a bag of potatoes that somehow fell to the back of the pantry and had to be used up or thrown out in a few days. I also had broccoli that I hadn’t used from the week before so soup sounded like the most logical choice.
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So cheezy and delicious! Does anyone else do this? I let my tangerine sit out for a couple hours before eating it – the skin gets really crispy and the juice of the tangerine just pops in your mouth – so good!
So Tony and I have been having a craving for beef brisket. Ever since our trip to Austin last year, the moist brisket is one of the best things we ate while we were there at Rudy’s BBQ – the sausage at The Salt Lick was the best too.
I love how my step-daughter-in-law is not shy about eating!
Only one teeny tiny problem with that. Not many grocery stores actually sell beef brisket. Corned beef? Yep! So we ended up going to the butcher shop in town. When the butcher cut off a hunk of the beef brisket and put it on the scale – at 7.5 pounds, with tax came to $60. I know I gave a couple people on Facebook a heart attack at the thought of spending $60 on one piece of meat. But, I have a weekly budget of $100 for food. I went $20 over for the week, but the previous week I only spent $46 on groceries, so it all balances out in the end.
I ended up cutting that in half, freezing the second half for when we can finally grill outdoors again on the Weber. I ended up using this marinade for the beef which I let marinate for 24 hours. After going back and forth, I decided to wrap the meat in foil and bake at 250 for 4 hours. I had Tony take the meat out and come to room temperature first. In the middle of the afternoon he decided to add water to it.
The verdict? The meat was very tender, but hardly had any flavor at all. I was shocked because when I tasted the marinade the day before it was really flavorful. We both agreed that this would have had better flavor on the grill. And I have lots of leftovers. This morning I am making a brisket, potato, egg white and spinach hash. I got a bunch of great ideas when I posted a picture on Facebook:
Rachel suggested these spicy brisket nachos.
Karli recommended corned beef salad with lemon-dill dressing and braised brisket tacos.
Helen suggested a Reuben casserole. Holla!
Do you have any suggestions with leftover brisket? I’d love to hear them!
Today is going to be close to 50 degrees – now my back yard is just half full of snow – I am hoping it will melt the rest of it soon!
Happy 18th birthday to my nephew Paul!
Alright, time to get this how on the road – make it a great day!
I get a BBQ Brisket sandwich from a local BBQ place and it is delicious. It’s shredded and topped with slaw (like a traditional Southern pork BBQ sandwich). Now I want one!
My mom gets her brisket at SAMs – the price is good!
You need to try the Pioneer Woman’s Passover brisket recipe – there is dry onion soup mix in it it but if you could take the flavor of the soup, it would still be the best brisket ever! No joke – And I eat a lot of brisket…
I think that’s where I’ll look next time for it to save some $$ – thanks for the tip!
you needed to brine it more with your marinade, some people do 5 days, I bet if you would have done it longer, better flavor, I went to cash and carry and bought a 13 pound whole brisket, 31 dollars, I cut into several meals…I put mine in the slow cooker with pickling spices, was delish and fork tender…so glad we bought the big piece so we have more for later, left overs were grill corned beef with pepper jack cheese on rye bread….threw on the Panini grill, to die for with added horseradish as our spread…..
Connie, I also thought maybe I should have used my meat tenderizer so maybe more of the marinade could have gotten in the meat? I loves me some horseradish – delish!
It’s a little disheartening when a dish doesn’t have as much flavor as you thought it would. Sometimes a little salt or acid will help. The Reuben casserole (or a dip) would be fantastic. What about cabbage rolls? Mini pot pies or hand pies? Colcannon???
Love all those ideas! I haven’t stopped by your blog in a while – I need to change that!
Beef has gotten incredibly expensive! I can’t even begin to imagine what a whole tenderloin costs these days! Love the looks of your brisket though! I’ve only ever made corned brisket myself.
You need to make the Alton Brown flower pot smoker to do the other piece of brisket! That would be in budget 😀
Have you changed a setting on your blog? I don’t get the whole posts in my reader, but just snippets of it.
I’ll have to check that out Lori – a flower pot smoker??!!
Nope, I barely know how to change anything on this blog, I’ll check it out though. 😀
If you belong to Costco, they have great brisket. Sometimes you have to trim it a bit, but that is where I get mine. You are doing great with this exercise. My tangerines get like that usually without me thinking about it. I let them sit out and forget sometimes!
I never thought to check out Sam’s Club – the price may have been better!
I love my tangerines that way, too… and they are easier to peel after they’ve been sitting out!
Sometimes I envy all the nice shops and stores that come with living in a bigger city…not that I’ve ever lived in one! lol Butcher shop?? Not where I live. I’d probably have to drive an hour to Huntsville or Birmingham to find one! Our grocery store carries brisket but not corned beef. The soup looks so good – I have a kitchen at work & it’s just me so I may be making that tomorrow! lol
I love having a kitchen at work, just miss having a stove. Hopefully before too much longer I will be able to grill outside at work again.
You are an inspiration to me, ( I am not a stalker LOL) I have been newly diagnosed with diabetes and I am scared to death to eat anything, You give me hope that I can real food and be healthy and happy,
Oh shit – sorry you have the sugars Bonnie! I emailed you yesterday with some questions – it will be okay! 😀
oh mah goodness! Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do – lol! Too bad it didn’t turn out with much flavor. 🙁 I bought corned beef brisket and am going to make it tomorrow – I’m a little behind on it lol.
I should stock up on corned beef this weekend – loves me a Reuben!
Hmm….you could send your leftover brisket up north to me? HA!
I love broccoli soup. I’ve never had the taste for brisket though I’ve tried it many times.
I’m with you – prefer regular beef brisket over corned, though I do love a good Reuben, which you short of need it corned for that.
I’ve been trying for years to make a good brisket but the way we really like it is smoked and I don’t have a smoker. Therefore, I stopped trying and now just get brisket when we go out for BBQ!
We’ve decided that this summer if we get a smoker, we need to get a digital one that can regulate the temperature – it was hard to keep enough heat to actually smoke anything. If I lived in Austin I’d eat at Rudy’s BBQ three times a week!
Yes! I’m a distributor, too!! (I just don’t advertise it much – lol)
I wonder about the stairmaster – I should try it next time. I never even check to see how many floors I climb when I’m on it! Haha
What? I didn’t know that. Is it still like $175 for the program?
Holy Brisket!! There’s no way I could pay that much for one piece of meat. I just couldn’t. LOL
And I love Allyson’s joke about BBT – perfect! ^^^^
I know – I love that show too!
I loved your Sunday recap – that place looks gorgeous!!! Bummer that The Eatery was so crowded – next time. And, the people puking – ugh!!
I haven’t made brisket in awhile – maybe this week would be a good time to do one.
yep, I’ve made a note to myself Kim “never go to Chicago during St. Patrick’s Day!”
My suggestion is to contact Howard Wolowitz’s Mom on The Big Bang Theory. LOL! Sorry but I could not resist a beef brisket joke because I LOVVVVVVVE Big Bang and Howard and his Mom and her beef brisket. ;P
We were just watching a few episodes of BBT last night that we hadn’t seen before – Wolowitz’s Mom kills!
My daughter and I are both too intimidated to do the stair master. It puts you up so high and she says what if she can’t keep up with it and it flings her off. 🙂 Yes, I know that sounds dramatic but trust me those kinds of things happen to us. I got a paper cut on my cornea once from a paper plate of all things:) We are super accident prone.
My family LOVES brisket! Only one problem, I have never made a great one. Good but not great. The first time I made it I didn’t realize I bought corned beef brisket so the other flavors I added really messed it up.
Ha – if I go fast enough I do fear I am going to fall off, but I lightly hang onto the bars and it seems to be okay. Yep, this brisket was just okay – I plan on making tacos with it for lunch tomorrow – it needs some spicy shit!