the 2nd day of Labor day holiday, feed a hunger--Braised ox tail with pear

Today is the second day of Labor day holiday, unbelievable, I still stayed at home, ( I ruled out the walk in Cambridge area). Oh, I visited veggie planet yesterday, because there was a show there, so it was natural to take away and eat alone. the pizza dough reminded me Kissa( sK's invention about pizza) , it should be flatbread, but very alike. No surprise, but very delicious. and they do use some tofu mash (something like my tofu caesar). I have a little concern about vegetarian food, because it is delicious with the cost of a lot of oil.

XGs told me he had been hungry for days and would come with a super big appetite. Nothing is better than braised meaty short rib to fed a hunger. This recipe is called braised beef with ginger and pear, which I saw it from last month's bon appetite. it also calls for pig feet as the secrete ingredient. I guess it would release collagen which is amazing. When I was shopping pig feet, I found ox tails, it was like a bonus for me, I didn't have to drive over to the whole foods for short ribs, but could get wonderful ox tails here!

It is called ginger pear, but it doesn't look like it calls a lot of ginger. so I doubled the ginger.
And it also calls 3 hrs braised time, I just followed, and I was completely free during those three hours, which was not bad. When I was back , my house was full of braise aroma~~

It also says discarding the pig feet, but in China, almost everyone likes it, and because of collagen, women all go for it. I also pulled out the meat from those larger ox tails but kept the little ones. at the end pour on the reduction sauce.

Served with mashed potato. I had a mistake here, I should have use Yukon golden potato ~~
Not sure when I can make mashed potato again, I can't stand that much creamy carbs!
BTW, I have to admit I do admire XGs's ablity to eat meat :P