Can you cook a corned beef brisket like a regular brisket?
Let me rephrase that in a way that won't fit in the post title:
My SO bought a number of corned beef briskets around St. Patrick's Day when they were dirt cheap and we froze them. Personally, I hate corned beef and cabbage, and have had more than my share for the year with the three we've already cooked that way. I always cook them by adding that little packet of seasonings which I figure give the beef that corned beef and cabbage taste I dislike so much. The package says you can cook it without the seasoning packet, it's already seasoned. I'm wondering what that means. Could I just throw it in the crock pot with potatoes, carrots, onion and beef broth without that packet of spices and come out with something more like beef stew than like corned beef and cabbage sans the cabbage?
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I'm definitely trying the mustard roast next time! And I always forget about the hash, it's actually one of my favorite Sunday morning breakfasts. And I cook it just the way you do! 
I ended up putting it the crockpot to cook mostly like regular CB&C: threw in cut up onion, about 8 carrots, 6 or 7 small potatoes. Rinsed the hell out of the meat. Used a can of beef consomme and a can of vegetable broth to boil it all up in. I'm thinking about melting some brie in the broth when it's done, or I may smear it on the meat itself. I looked up what spices go into corned beef and they are all good companions of brie in other recipes. So hoping that might make it more palatable to me. Leaning hard toward smearing on afterward now that you reminded me about the hash. 
they're pretty good if you put them on the BBQ with a handful or 2 of wood chips to smoke a combo of apple and hickory is pretty good, do 'low and slow' though :shrug; 
