On Feb 3, 2:22*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> On 03/02/2011 5:15 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
>
> > boy does this sound good......haven't seen oxtails in the market
> > lately, I'm going to have to look for some.
>
> >http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/ma...html?ref=style
>
> IMO it seems odd to use brown sugar with short ribs because they tend to
> be slightly sweet to begin with, not to mention the issue of heating up
> sugar until it starts to smoke and turns black. *Not saying that it
> couldn't be good I also wouldn't have thought of short ribs need hot
> peppers. Maybe it's just that I have had so many good braised short ribs
> that I don't see any reason to use a different approach with them.

oxtails aren't short ribs.