Perhaps you don't have oxtail soup in the colonies, but it was/is a great winter warmer in my family.
BBC - Food - Recipes : Oxtail soup
BBC - Food - Recipes : Oxtail soup
Hi Cliff,
It isn't what to do with it that is the concern. I'm sure many of us have childhood memories of coming in from the cold and having a nice hearty bowl of Oxtail soup or stew that warmed you right to the cockles. We just have trouble understanding why something that used to be a giveaway at the butcher now rivals some finer cuts in price. Here it costs 6 or 7 dollars per pound. That puts in in the same league as rib meat.
It isn't what to do with it that is the concern. I'm sure many of us have childhood memories of coming in from the cold and having a nice hearty bowl of Oxtail soup or stew that warmed you right to the cockles. We just have trouble understanding why something that used to be a giveaway at the butcher now rivals some finer cuts in price. Here it costs 6 or 7 dollars per pound. That puts in in the same league as rib meat.
Ah! I see!
Yes, it is happening to many things.
We eat a lot of "offal" (horrible word!) and kidneys, hearts and liver are getting up to steak prices, almost.
Yes, it is happening to many things.
We eat a lot of "offal" (horrible word!) and kidneys, hearts and liver are getting up to steak prices, almost.
I understand the price of chicken wings as they have become very popular.
On the other hand chicken liver is getting expensive considering there is not such demand for it. Same as you say about the ox tail.
I can get 'chicken tenders' on sale ($1.99/lb) for less than livers ($2.49lb.
On the other hand chicken liver is getting expensive considering there is not such demand for it. Same as you say about the ox tail.
I can get 'chicken tenders' on sale ($1.99/lb) for less than livers ($2.49lb.
Same old, same old. My gripe is that it happens to the things I like. I really like taking an underdog cut of meat and see if I'm up to the challenge and this throws the whole game plan out the window. When I was a kid, Mom would slow roast pork neckbones and sauce them up before serving. In our house that was called dinosaur bones. You could sit and munch away on these things for an hour having lots of fun while you did it. You really earned your protein that night. She was always so happy we would eat them like that, knowing that if she didn't take them they were thrown away. She grew during rations so she was very conscious of wastage.
Francois Mitterand, had, as his last meal, ortolans --
Fried pig trotters are a treat, but you couldn't pay my wife to eat them.
Fried pig trotters are a treat, but you couldn't pay my wife to eat them.
After ww2, a substantial number of Rotterdam citizens couldn't afford regular meat.
So they often bought cow nipples from the butchers. As a waste product, it cost the least, sorta like chicken wings.
Nowadays, there are just a couple of R'dam butchers who run a tittybar.
So they charge more for a pound of large nipples than they do for braising steak.
So they often bought cow nipples from the butchers. As a waste product, it cost the least, sorta like chicken wings.
Nowadays, there are just a couple of R'dam butchers who run a tittybar.
So they charge more for a pound of large nipples than they do for braising steak.
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Chicken feet maybe?
I enjoy them fried and with the right simmering sauce but my gawd I have to get past where they have been before I can even consider.
I know the wings were just paddles in the same...but at least there's some meat.
Funny that reminds me, last time I was in Shanghai the office let me order a dish, I picked goose feet with abalone in "special sauce". The sauce seemed like two canned ones mixed together but it was only $8.
Good lord, I thought I knew what that phrase meant, at least in English! It is often said here that "hot dogs" are made from "lips, tits and a$$holes." However, the next time I am in the Netherlands I will try to remember that "tittybar" has a different meaning in Rotterdam than in Amsterdam!
My honey has finally mastered the art of Pho broth. The kind that keeps you eating at home.
I have learned the meat parts.
We like braised rib meat, raw beef (flank or round), tendon and tripe (omasum). No balls.
Garnish is green Mung bean sprout, basil leaf, chili in oil, lime, fish sauce and hoisin.
Life is good. 🙂
I have learned the meat parts.
We like braised rib meat, raw beef (flank or round), tendon and tripe (omasum). No balls.
Garnish is green Mung bean sprout, basil leaf, chili in oil, lime, fish sauce and hoisin.
Life is good. 🙂
You seem to have stopped everybody dead in their tracks, so to speak. I've witnessed similar rituals and agree with your sentiments.
My honey wanted me bad after watching that Abalone meet it's maker.
Or was that the other way round?
Or was that the other way round?
Actually I would wellcome an alternate method for abalone
than that used by my buddies (who catch them over on the coast)
They pound them then egg & flour (or just flour) /with spices
and deep fry ......
Good but I have learned to appreciate the flavor of the fish it'self
rather than the coating.
I like to steam (perhaps 'poach' is the proper term) trout
Any body have a recipe for poached abalone ?
than that used by my buddies (who catch them over on the coast)
They pound them then egg & flour (or just flour) /with spices
and deep fry ......
Good but I have learned to appreciate the flavor of the fish it'self
rather than the coating.
I like to steam (perhaps 'poach' is the proper term) trout
Any body have a recipe for poached abalone ?