When Irish eyes are smiling

My husband's favorite meal is corned beef and veggies. Every year I dread St Patrick's day because I make it as a labor of love for him- even though I don't actually like corned beef and veggies. With my new way of eating, I of course scope out the fattiest cuts of meat I can find so when I saw a fatty corned beef brisket at the market I had to consider it. I decided I would kill 2 birds with one stone, make my husband happy and get in my fatty meat, and it would be worth it even if I didn't care for it.

Then I tried this recipe. And either my taste buds have changed or its just that good- because this was fantastic.

This is NOT a keto diet friendly recipe to be honest. Some people eat a modified diet they call "Dirty Keto" which allows for non-keto ingredients in meals as long as they're staying below their net carb limit. I actually don't do that, I stay as strict as possible. But I'm not a complete purist and I'm okay with the very occasional mis-ingredient. In this case it's a bottle of Guinness. This also calls for 1/4 C brown sugar, which I cut down to 2 tablespoons. I don't have any carby after effects this morning so as I suspected it seems to have been of minimal effect.

Oh.... and it's an Instant Pot recipe. My favorite kitchen gadget!

http://www.thekitchenwhisperer.net/2017/03/15/pressure-cooker-guinness-corned-beef-with-cabbage-potatoes-carrots/

I used the most beautiful extra seedy dijon mustard... ahhhhh....

Obviously I chose the fattiest pieces and only ate cabbage because root veggies are a big no-no on a keto diet!

The rest of the day, I ended up skipping the fast. That wine sugar hangover from the night before just kicked my arse. I had a hard boiled egg, some avocado, jalapeno and bacon for lunch, cheese and macadamia nuts for dessert. Stayed well under macros. 2 days in a row with no scale movement. Feeling great though!

Chugga chugga chugga keto choo choo.