WTF is Oxtail
They are more often than not sold as individual sections of bone with their surrounding meat. If you do happen to get a whole one you can feel along for a the gap between the bone and cut there. As far as cooking it, think of how you’d cook a lamb shank - long and slow and good for the base of a stock or stew. There isn’t usually much meat on these things as the tail of most animals is used to store fat but if you’re served a piece you’ve really got to pick them up and chew off the meat.
For something a little different, you can try making a paté
Oxtail Paté
Oxtail
Paté - Makes 2 cups
1kg of oxtail
1T of olive oil
1 onion, sliced
2 cloves, ground
10 juniper berries, crushed
1 bay leaf
Pre-heat your oven to 160ºC. Toss all of the ingredients together
and roast for 6+ hours until a skewer pierces the meat without
resistence.
Take the roasting tray out and pick over the bones, removing the
large pieces of fat and placing the meat into a food processor.
Discard the bones. Remove the bay leaf and add everything else to
the food processor. Blend until the meat becomes fine, but not a
pureé.
Pack the paté into a dish suitable for serving in and cover in
plastic wrap. It can be keept for up to a week refridgerated.
WTF is a Fricassee?
Roast Chicken and Winter Vegetable Fricassee
Packing. You're doing it wrong
Fisher and Paykle 519L Fridge for
Sale
I' like to say it was entirely due to
the fact I was sick, but unfortunately, this is how I usually pack
to move house, turning my kitchen draws upside down over a box,
taping it up and dealing with the mess at the other end. Just watch
out for the steak-knives!
Box of cutlery and utensils from my
last house move
WTF is Lycopene?
Unlike the anti-oxidents in some substances, like Vitamin-C, those from Lycopene aren't destroyed by cooking, infact, cooking increases the amount you can absorb, so even after Leggos has fully reconstituted what used to be a tomato into what can only loosely be described as tomato paste, there is still actually some benefit for you. That's not to remove the fact that fresh tomato is still going to be better for you than a fully processed substance, but if you want to create a home made tomato sauce with out any other preservatives and chemicals, it's a good way of increasing the anti-oxidents in your system. The currently recommended daily amount of lycopene is about 30mg, which can be had in just a single glass of tomato juice.
A perfect recipe to get some more Lycopene is Hugh's Tomato Ketchup. It makes about a liter.
Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall 's Tomato
Ketchup