St Patty's Day Come Early!

So corned beef and cabbage is one of my all time FAVORITE meals! And as I was shopping this weekend for groceries I saw these great looking, gorgeous pieces of meat just begging to be fixed.  This was a slight blonde moment (no I am not blonde but my mother is so I like to say that I am blonde once removed so I only have the occasional blonde moment lol).  I had completely forgotten that this upcoming weekend is ST. Patty's Day so... DUH to me that of course! there were some great cuts in the case.  The problem was I had already worked this meal into my meal plans this week and did NOT want to have to wait till Sunday to have it! So long story short we are having St Patty's Day early this year! lol

Now I was always brought up putting the giant pot of water on the stove with my beef and the little seasoning packet cooking for a couple hours then throwing in the red potatoes and cabbage for another hour and then we were good to go.  Simple, to the point and always yummy.  Over the years I have tried to duplicate it and I don't know if I get impatient or what but I can never seem to get the meat tender enough...SO I decided to try and do this meal in the crockpot! I am a big believer in this invention and believe we should use it to the fullest! So I started doing some digging around online for ideas and recipes and I discovered that there was so much more I could be doing with this dish to give it even more flavor! So below is the recipe of what I currently have in my crockpot. It is kind of a combination of a few different ideas I found.  I will be sure to update you all on how it turns out! (PS as you can tell I'm not all that big on exact measurements! lol)

1- 3lb corned beef brisket
spice packet that comes with it (or in my case it was just pre-rubbed on)
10ish - mini red potatoes
2 cupsish of baby carrots
2 tbls minced garlic
mrs. dash
2 cubes beef bullion
water
cabbage

I quartered my red potatoes and layered the bottom of the crockpot.  Then I poured in my baby carrots.  I added some Mrs. Dash and garlic to these and covered with water.  Then I put my beef brisket on top of this (add your spices packet now if it came with yours) and covered with water.  Dropped in 2 cubes of beef bullion added more garlic, and Mrs. Dash. Covered and set crock pot on low for 6 hours. After six hours I cut up and added my cabbage set the crock pot on high and cooked for 1 more hour.  (normally I would have just left it on low for 8hrs and added the cabbage at about the hour to go mark but I misjudged my timing today and want Rod to be able to eat dinner before he has to go to his rehearsal tonight!) I am going to be dying all day smelling it cook!