The year of the Ox

I was going to do a post about Chinese New year and the year of the ox. I thought I’d celebrate by making Oxtail soup. I saw a wonderful recipe for it with red wine and root vegetables the other day. As I started making my grocery list the thought hit me, The Ox is supposed to be the sign of prosperity through fortitude and hard work and I’m really hoping to have prosperous year…so maybe cooking up the tail of governing animal spirit is not the best way to obtain his favor. We had salmon burgers instead.