"Dominus" Red Wine Sauce Steak with Roasted Potatoes and Asparagus

Sometimes you just want really good steak and potatoes. Since it is not yet warm enough to grill outside, this steak recipe is a good indoor meal that is always a crowd pleaser.

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Dominus_Winery.html

The addition of the red wine and onion sauce in this dish made me think of this California winery by Herzog and De Meuron, where the building facade is made of wire boxes filled with rocks... sounds strange, but its construction provides some really amazing lighting effects from the interior and uses the gabion wire basket, which is usually used in terracing, in a subversive way.
I'd love to visit this winery some day and do some wine tasting in this lovely and unusual building, who wants to come?

Ingredients,

• rib steak or any sirloin steak fillet
• 1 red onion
• 2 shallots
• dry red wine about 2 cups
• salt, pepper and tarragon (on the steaks)
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• olive oil
• small red creamer potatoes, cut in half
• Herbs de Provence
• green asparagus
• chopped fresh Italian parsley for garnish

How to make it,

1. Cut potatoes in half and put into a metal oven pan, drizzle with a bit of olive oil and dust with herbs de Provance, salt and pepper.
2. Put into a 425 degree oven for 25- 35 minutes or until the begin to brown a little.
3. For the steaks, pat with salt pepper and tarragon and set aside.
4. Put the butter into a large metal pan over medium high heat, when the butter melts put the steaks into the pan for about 4 minutes on each side or until the steaks have browned a bit to your desired level of cooking, then set aside and cover to keep warm.
5. In the same pan put the chopped onions and shallots with a little bit of the wine, just a glug.
6. Stir and deglaze the pan, which gets all the brown bits from the cooking of the steaks, this is full of good flavor.
7. Cook the onions and shallots until the become transparent occasionally adding more red wine to them as it cooks down.
8. In a separate pan cook the chopped asparagus in a bit of olive oil with salt and pepper for a few minutes, just to bring that vibrant green color out, very simple.
9. Add the sauce on top of the steak, enjoy!