Food

“we get the oxtail from butcher’s in Plaistow though, special order. The down side is that the more popular these cuts become, the price starts to rise due to demand thanks to a celebrity chef waxing lyrical about, let me think … oh yes ox cheeks..”

im a big fan of ox cheek, use it for ragu and curry, used to buy it for bobbins in my local supermarket when they had a meat counter pre-covid but then it disappeared from the shelves, but last week i bought some ‘lean casserole steak’ which was 3 large chicken breast sized pieces of course grained meat with thin flecks of fat running through it.
It looks like ox cheek, tastes like ox cheek but i guess they don’t call it that as it puts people off who don’t watch Nigella or own a Nigel Slater book.

was about the same price per Kg as the various diced shin/casserole steak packs on the shelf.