Oxtails...I finally bought some. Now what?

[breadmama]

A nice lady in the store told me she LOVES them and cooks them in her Le Creuset - I know I read about oxtails either in a Lorna Sass book, or in the Molly Stevens Braising book (which I don't own).

Can anyone tell me a good way to prepare them, and how to defat them? I am hoping that we'll get marvelous flavor and not a lot of fat - am I delusional on that last point? :-)

I do not cook a lot of beef, and yet this week I bought sirloin for burgers, a pot roast for the crock pot tomorrow, and those oxtails. It all looked good - well, except for the oxtails. They just looked more weirdly intriguing than good.

Thanks-
Laurie

[aggie94]

I love oxtails. I have never cooked them before, but my dad always did. I haven't made this recipe, but it seems very similar to what my dad would do with them, minus the orange.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/di...brex.html?_r=1

[avariell]

The recipe that aggie posted looks delicious to me! I think it would alleviate the worry about the meat being too fatty since you refrigerate it and lift the solidified fat off before eating.