Mel is always excited to order oxtail from Caribbean restaurants. With the right spices and preparation, the meat can be so tender and flavorful - a nice break from the normal rotation of chicken, pork and steak. Unfortunately, she's never found oxtail at our local supermarkets. Well, during the pandemic we started ordering meat deliveries directly from two awesome butchers in NY (Cassanova Meats and Vincent's Meat Market), and they carry oxtail!
Knowing that oxtail meat would naturally be a bit tough, Mel wanted her first recipe attempt to involve the slow cooker. Some of the recipes promising "Caribbean" flavors involved a million ingredients and she just wasn't in the mood for all that rigmarole, so she found this simpler one: Southern Smothered Oxtails.
We admittedly improvised a bit (i.e. adding a can of fire roasted diced tomatoes for extra sauciness), but the basics of the recipe were super easy to follow and yielded delicious results!
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