Looking for rec for Oxtail soup

[deedee]

Does any one have a rec for Oxtail soup, would appreciate you posting it. Thank you.

[faeriebritches]

i bet marasai does.

[bhscarlett]

She only made that and oxtail spagetti,, I would love both, and better yet can it be put in the plant swap cookbook,, I forget what loving person Is working on that one. Yummy! Blessings, Beth

[gone_tropical]

I just brown it a bit first (to give the soup some color) then add chopped veggies. Onions, leek, carrots, parsley root. I let mine cook for a loooooong time. When it is cold (fridge) the soup is like gelatine. Heat it up, strain and I then thin it with water and add instant broth to taste.

[marasri]

So , FR, you ARE out there lurking or we are just posting in all the wrong places. Ox tail soup.eh. Well I open the fridge and invite the food in the pot. close lid. and cook.

I salt pepper, brown the knuckles and then put them in the pot. I add some canned chopped tomatoes and/or beef broth and start cooking the oxtails. They will need about three hours. Sometime during that time, I sautee some onions, celery, whatever says "ME, ME!" Carrots, potatoes, eggplant, olives.. I decide if it will be a soup or braised (more or less liquid). Italian spaghetti saucish (more tomatoes or tomatoe sauce, eggplant, olives) or English stew (beef broth, milk with flour, worcester , carrots, potatoes.) If I am braising with tomatoes and they get a bit bitter , I then add a titty taD OF sugar. I spice just the way I cook. No system here. I have been known to mix cinnamon in with the oregano, or tumeric in almost any combination.

[deedee]

I will sure try every one of your soups. they do sound sooo good. Well, I'm a limey, (English lady), I am, but hate saying so many times, I think you are all sick of me by now, but this is a popular soup there, and have drank gallons, I have been wanting some for so long, I tried to make here but could not get the flavor right. But now I have some to try. Thank you all so much.

gone_tropical, I cook my soups a long time too, thats the best.

[bhscarlett]

wow ,, didnt know there were so many variations,, thanks for sharing with us,, ive got to try them all,, blessings, beth

[marasri]

DeeDee, my soup is guarenteed to not be the soup you grew up with. I mix nationalities with abandon. I did this soup I was famous for when I lived in Hawaii. Every one called it Mara's Aquarium soup. I made a broth out of washed salted Butterfish. Then I stuffed wantons with a Thai shrimp pork and water chestnut mixture and stuffed some small squid bodies with a shrimp and mint/chinese parsley mixture and pinned their little legs back on and then cooked them in the broth with some bac choy. I served it in a glass cistern so it looked like animals swimming around in the clear broth with green sea kelplike greens. The little squids arms curled up so cute. They were adorable. My Hawaiian/Chinese neighbors thought I was a little warped. She was frightened to teach me anything because then she got to see combined with Greek, Italian, Thai and American.

[deedee]

Marasri, I'm sure they'll be great, a lot better than my flavorless ones that I made, who knows I might like yours better. Boy you are some cook, would I have loved to taste some of your concoctions, and what presentation, in a cistern, WOW, they sound so good.I bet your c Chinese nieghbour never taste any, did she.

bhscarlett, I don't know about Oxtail spaghetti, That just sounds so weird, did you like it.

faeriebritches, she did, thanks

[bhscarlett]

Imagine a child loving it, I was a picky eater, it was delicious, that is why I will use Masaris receipe and keep trying to find for Oxtails spagetti, blessings, Beth

[faeriebritches]

mara.. i am not hiding.. just back on here a little more.. with eoghan and school... fall illnesses etc.. i havn't been around much.. but I am back

[marasri]

FB, It is good to hear from you. Makes me smile. DEEDEE, Think of Oxtail spaghetti as a variation on meatballs. My Haoli neighbor would cook them in a greek spaghetti sauce that had a bit of cinnamon in it along with the oregano garlic,marjoram and thyme.. My Chinese Hawaiian neighbor did taste things at my house. and would come over while I was cooking and hang in the kitchen. We would laugh at all the different ways that people learn to cook in. Food was so interesting out there. I had another neighbor (Samoan) that would do lots of luaus and he ate my dog ( sweet black dog) but he had the good graces to invite me over. I not so politely declined. I was seething. He had been feeding him, inexplicably for a month. Teach me to let my dog roam free. Well, I didn't much like that dog much, anyway. I was never picky about what I ate, but eating my dog was a line I could not cross. Not yet.

[faeriebritches]

ya'll are making me SO hungry!!!

[marasri]

Stay away from my dog!

[deedee]

marasri,I feel so sick to my stomach now,Oh My God.Geeze he fattened him up,Good one mara,yea,I was thinking yea,your hungry for dog,faeriebritches,LOL.Life is hard, but you still have to laugh.LOL about your nieghbour coming over and eating your fixins.yea, we see how food is in such abundance there and how much they love to cook,my kind of eating,god if I didn't need to loose weight,I have to use restraint now.Wouldn't I love to chow down to all good things we have mentioned here,Oh I'll eat some,but such a little bit,how am I going to do that with these soups, you have got me in trouble now.LOL