Fumbling Toward Culinary Talent: Beefy Rice

I don't know if there's a Cooking for Dummies book (probably), but the following recipe should be in it.

It's a side dish. Or for frugal folks, it's a main entree.

Ingredients:

1 cup long grain rice

2 cups beef stock

1-4 shallots, sliced thinly

1 onion sliced thinly

olive oil for shallots and onions

smidge of smoked paprika

smidge of thyme

cracked black pepper to taste

Slice the shallots and onion thinly and slowly sweat them on low-medium heat with the olive oil. Once those aromatics have cooked down substantially, put the rice into the sauce pan for a little while to coat the rice with the oil and oniony goodness. Then pour in the 2 cups of stock and cook covered for the recommended time of the rice you're using.

Of course, how much onion or how many shallots you use is up to you.