oxtail
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oxtails
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Options range from $19 wagyu oxtail patties to a $48 grilled pork chop served with crab butter, grilled mango and a jus flavored with kuchela, a Trinidadian green-mango relish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
The organisation runs a weekly community meal on Tuesday for about 60 adults and Mr Price said attendees will see beef and oxtail soup become part of the menu.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
And the prevailing wisdom counsels late night oxtail soup at the California Hotel, an off-Strip spot catering to Hawaiians, who are so populous in the city that they call it the Ninth Island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
Home to many people originally from Jamaica, Bermuda, Trinidad and Tobego and other West Indies communities, local dishes include jerk chicken, oxtail and rice and beans made with coconut and cacao.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2024
This evening they had supped on oxtail soup, summer greens tossed with pecans, grapes, red fennel, and crumbled cheese, hot crab pie, spiced squash, and quails drowned in butter.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Admittedly, another part of what I loved about that food back then was the roasted pork and grilled chicken and oxtails.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2023
If you’ve never made oxtails, don’t worry, they’re pretty easy to make.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
If you’re wondering where to get oxtails, try your local butcher or Asian food market.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
And like other cuts of meat that are cartilage, collagen and connective tissue-heavy — again, oxtails, but also like chicken wings and feet — turkey necks are tremendous for making stock.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022
We had black beans and oxtails and collard greens and rice.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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