Browning the chuck roast in batches and cooking the onions and garlic until they're sweet adds deep flavors to our beef stew. Cooking low-and-slow in the oven allows the meat to become tender in its rich, red wine-laced sauce.
This shrimp scampi hits all the right notes -- buttery, lemony, garlicky -- and has excellent simplicity and balance of flavor (and copious amounts of butter!). But while it looks and tastes fancy, it's very easy to make.