A little more comfort food

This one came from America's Test Kitchen.  Braised Brisket with smashed potatoes.  So here's the picture evidence.

So here is everything ready to go into the pan.  Brisket, flour, garlic, tomato paste onions, brown sugar, chili powder and cayenne mixture, chicken broth, wine, bay leaves and thyme.

The brisket got seasoned with salt and pepper and then placed in a super hot pan with some oil and seared off.  Here is the brisket halfway through the searing process.

The completely seared brisket.

The onions and brown sugar go into the same pan that the brisket was seared in.

The onion mixture about halfway through the cooking process.  The garlic, and tomato paste have been added at this point.

The the sauce was finished with the flour and the wine mixture.  Everything was then placed into a baking pan and covered with flour and baked for four hours.

The cooked brisket.

Boiled red potatoes smashed with a butter cream cheese mixture along with chives.

The final plating.  Not pretty, but it's comfort flood so it doesn't have to be. 

This was a great dish for me, because I did pretty much everything yesterday and then just baked off the brisket to reheat for an hour or so while I was at the grocery store this evening.