What's for supper - Second Course

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^ Home-baked bread. Few things in this world are any better.
Nice.
 
konfab said:
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Decided to keep things simple. Beer bread and butter.

This bread consists of beer, sugar, salt and flour. Everything needed for a nutritious meal :twisted:
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The texture seems a bit tight.
 
Noseworthy said:
recipe please
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I'm following this recipe from Reddit, with a few modifications - especially since he's making15kg at a time..

Clean and cut oxtail and toss in a couple pinches of black pepper. Sear on cut sides that have cartilage. Chop celery, onions, and shallots. Spread on the bottom of a large pan with whole pieces of garlic. Lay oxtail on top seared side up. Combine wine, soy sauce, chicken stock, and brown sugar in a pot. Bring to a boil and pour over oxtail. Cover with plastic wrap and foil and put in conventional oven @275 for 6 hours. The next day, peel fat off top and separate oxtail from liquid and place oxtail in separate pans. Pour liquid and vegetables in a pot and heat until gel turns liquid. Strain out vegetables and return to heat, reducing in half. Cool dish in refrigerator.
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My deviations (apart from quantity): I dry brined the oxtail overnight, and compensated by using less soy sauce. I didn't add any pepper pre-sear since I think it causes a bit too much burning. I added the juice of a whole orange. I cooked for 4.5 hours, not 6. I checked it on the hour to make sure it was tender but I didn't want it completely falling off the bone. And I skimmed a lot of fat off immediately post-cook.

I don't think I'll be straining out the veg to make a demiglace, I reckon I'll just have it as a stew. When I'm warming it up I'll add mushrooms.

That's it.
 
Randhir you inspired me to Try Oxtail. One of my fav meals but I have never made it before. A friend gave me her recipe so going to try that and hope like hell I don't ruin R300 worth of oxtail. It bloody expensive
 
Sharon39 said:
Randhir you inspired me to Try Oxtail. One of my fav meals but I have never made it before. A friend gave me her recipe so going to try that and hope like hell I don't ruin R300 worth of oxtail. It bloody expensive
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That's like 4kg. How many are you cooking for?

To be honest it seems you can adapt any short rib recipe for oxtail.
 
Spaghetti and meatballs… eventually.

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akescpt said:
Parmesan crusted? Is it a strong taste? Find Parmesan to be quite strong at times.
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No not strong at all. I used half a cup of parmesan with half a cup of breadcrumbs and a ton of herbs, so the parmesan is balanced out.
 
Where do you buy such cheap Oxtail? Mine is around 2,7kgs from Woolies, since its a first time cook I wanted to get a good quality oxtail. I figured Woolies would be decent. Cooking for 4 x 2 meals maybe 3 depending on how much is leftover. Decided to leave it for the weekend cause I want to take my time and not rush. You never shared your end result, or did I miss it?
 
akescpt said:
Your balls look leka...
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Thanks :) They're a bit of a schlep to make so I tend to do them in bulk and freeze the ones I'm not going to use on the day after I've browned them.

Browning them in a pan used to be the most time consuming aspect of making them but I've switched to deep frying them for a couple of minutes.
 
Sharon39 said:
Where do you buy such cheap Oxtail? Mine is around 2,7kgs from Woolies, since its a first time cook I wanted to get a good quality oxtail. I figured Woolies would be decent. Cooking for 4 x 2 meals maybe 3 depending on how much is leftover. Decided to leave it for the weekend cause I want to take my time and not rush. You never shared your end result, or did I miss it?
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Was on special for around R70/kg. I took pics but unless you make a real effort stew normally just looks like brown goop in a bowl :p

It was fantastic, but a tad too rich.
 
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