Daube a la Provencale

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Melissa, I've been a follower of yours since your win on Food Network.
This is my first review online.....of anything ever. This dinner was superb! I wondered if it could be prepared, after browning of the meat, in a slow cooker? I think I'll try it next time. Keep up the excellent job.

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This was absolutely delish! followed the recipe as advised and used beef broth as one other reviewer suggested. Additionally one hour before completion i added gemstone potatoes. dee lish. The house smellled soo good! Only thing I would do differently next time is to add a second can of broth since you have to part with 1/2 cup of liquid for the macaronade. Regarding the m'nade.. Opted out of melissa's recipe as others didnt seem to thrilled by it and used a different version - scrap the breadcrumbs, replaced the swiss/gruyere with grated parmesan and broiled until cheese browned rather than baked at 350. My husband absoluted enjoyed this dish - as did I. tomorrow i have plans to try out the orange olive oil cake. will follow up on that once its taste tested. This meal wasnt quite under $10 considering the beef chuck ran 6.50 and the bottle of wine was $10 (tho I already had it in the house.. but it was well worth it. Will make this dish the next time we have company.

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FANTASTIC...the macaronade was great too, using 2/3C gruyere cheese.
I added about 2T orange peel cut into strips to the cooking mixture and it had a very subtle taste.

Re-heating it the next day, I felt it needed abt. 1T worchestershire sauce because the flavors had kind of disappeared in intensity. Will definitely be making this for company!!

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We just had this for dinner tonight and it was delicious! I had to make a lot more meat than it called for because I have big eaters and it shrinks quite a bit. I still used to same amount of liquid ingred. and onion and carrot. I did make a slurry of flour and water to thicken the gravy a little at the end. The macronade was wonderful. I used whole wheat noodles and everything was delicious. I wish I would have had some chewy bread to sop up all of the gravy. It was quite expensive to make I started with 6 pound of meat and by the time I trimmed and cut it up I probably had half. I will certainly make it again. By the way, the macronade was not supposed to be like mac and cheese.It goes under the meat and gets covered with gravy.

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I made this for dinner last night and my husband is still talking about it. It was fantastic! The only change I made was to double up on the carrots and throw in a few small portobello mushrooms (which were really good. Didn't try the macaroni, so I can't rate it. This is now my favorite stew recipe. The Daube is to die for!

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Absolutely not a $10 dinner, but it doesn't matter because this was one of the tastiest recipes I have ever made. The flavor of this was so good that while eating dinner I said, "I can't believe I made this" and my husband laughed and said "I can't believe it either." I didn't have 6 hours to marinate, so I only marinated for 1 hour, and it still had tremendous flavor. I will be making this again for a dinner party this weekend. This 5-star rating is only for the beef portion of the recipe. The macaroni was just ok. I would agree with other reviewers that it needed more than 1/2 c. of cheese.

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I waited until Chuck Roast went on sale and made this, although it was NOT a $10 dinner ($5 roast plus $8 bottle of wine plus everything else It was FREAKING awesome! I made sure to follow the marinade directs exactly and only deviated by adding a cup of cheese in lieu of the 1/2 cup called for. Will definately make this again and again.

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I am such a huge fan of melissa, BUT the macaroni/cheese is definitely a "food failure"! My guests were saying "where is the cheese?" It needed at least double the amount and I still don't know if that would have salvaged the dish. However, the beef was the most tender and delicious that I have ever cooked!

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AMAZING!!! I never, ever write reviews. However, I made this recipe for dinner and woke up dreaming about it this morning! Can't wait to have it for lunch. Make it exactly as the recipe calls. This recipe would not be nearly as good without the macaroni. I made it with swiss cheese. If I could give this 6 stars I would.

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I was very excited about trying this recipe....it tasted more like the vinegar then anythbing else, I will not make it again.