Delicious !: Villa Beef and Provence Rice !

Living in Lyon France for this little "business adventure" is not exactly easy on the budget, IF you know what I mean... and seeing as I LOVE food, LOVE to cook, have a butcher down MY street, and a great, and I do mean great Market 6 days a week just over the bridge, I am enjoying, and making the most out of my little French Kitchen... just in case you were wondering :)

For dinner last night I made Villa Beef and Provence Rice...

I forgot all about roasting my mushrooms

until I set my table... OOPS.. we all have our moments...

here as you can see I have sliced my onions fairly thin and layered my casserole dish with them. I needed two small to medium sized onions to do so.

here is my beautiful and lean cut of meat... I don't know WHAT it is... I asked the butcher, who is so kind, for Beef, he began pulling out cuts and I chose this one! He asked if I wanted it cut, I said NO!

I have seasoned it with a bit of soy,

fresh garlic about 2-3 cloves per side rubbed in,

some Herbs de Provence &

some Organic No Salt Seasoning (brought over from America-purchased @ Costco)

and a hint of freshly ground pepper

I then browned it in a pan with Olive Oil from Provence and a touch of butter...

To my Onions I drizzle Oil,

sprinkle Herbs de Provence

Organic no salt Seasoning

and here is a touch of wine... not the yummiest for drinking

but

JUST the thing to add to my onions

& later

to sprinkle

& YES I do mean SPRINKLE

upon my beef

My beef browning nicely!

adding beef to Onion,
drizzled the wine
a touch more Oil from Provence
a hint more herbs de Provence
and I cover this up and put into the oven
on LOW (VERY) about 75-100 in a Euro oven....
for a few hours (3)
(dreaming of a crock pot)

I chose red onions because they are pretty,
and I am using more Herbs de Provence in the rice and thought,
it would be a lovely presentation!
chopped them fairly fine...

Heated the oil from Provence.
Now seeing as this is OLIVE OIL and it has a LOW burn time, I am not heating this quickly... I am bringing this up to temperature slowly...
I am NOT in a rush...

I saute my lovely onions

I add my rice! Remember 1 part rice to 2 parts liquid...
I like using a Chicken stock ...
but have none today...s
o H2O it is!
It will still be delicious :)