About a year ago Joanne and I made a long list of things that we want to want to do in life, a bucket list. Hers and mine had quite a few things in common, like learning how to swim, watching a bunch of movies like the Godfather ect. One of the important items on the list was to learn how to make my favorite dishes. Today I did just that, I learned how to make oxtails and seafood in creole sauce (crab legs, shrimp, conch).

I love food, I love my mom and I love her cooking almost as much as I love her, almost. Learning to cook like her is only natural.

So we will begin with the oxtails…umm… oxtails savory melt in your mouth oxtails…

Since they turned out so yummy I figured that I write down everything I did to make sure that I cook it right each time and every time.

Ingredients:

1. 3 lbs of oxtails
2. 1 sour orange
3. 1 green or red sweet pepper
4. 1 scallion
5. 1 onion (medium)
6. 3 limes
7. half a bunch of tyme
8. half a bunch of parsley
9. a garlic head
10. 4 table spoons of vinegar
11. 3 boullion cube
12. 3 packets of sazon con azafran
13. 1 can of tomato paste
14. 1 bag of lima beans

Its cooking time!

1. peel the sour oranges (we save the peel for tea), and squeeze the juice into a bowl, do the same with the limes.
2. Use the pulp from both the sour oranges and the limes to wash the oxtails, rinse with cold water.
3. put all other ingredients minus the lima beans and tomato paste in a blender, add the juice from lime and sour orange and hit blend for 60 seconds.
4. Pour mixture over oxtails and let sit or leave in fridge overnight.
5. When ready to cook, in a large saucepan put 1 1/2 cup of water and add meat one by one, leave seasoning blend aside, and let cook until water is dry, add more water, do that until oxtail is cooked.
6. While the oxtails are cooking, wash lima beans and put in a pot to cook with water (Nathalie you should know how to do that part, if not follow instructions on the bag)
7. When oxtails are cooked, meat should be soft and tender, in a bowl pour the tomato paste  and add (half of a cup) hot water and mix, pour mixture in a pan and cover for a few minutes.
8. Once mixture start to crisp add oxtails, the marinade and cover for 15 minutes.
9. Add cooked lima beans and sliced onions and let it simmer for 10 minutes.
10. ALL DONE! 🙂

IM too lazy to go back and check for typos cuz, but call me when you’re making it ❤