Rouladen Recipe – A Guest Post by Chrys Fey
Growing
up, my family always had Rouladen, sans pickles, for our special Christmas Day
feast. I can still recall the smell of the bacon grease from the fried bacon
and the scent of chopped onions lingering in the air. And, oh boy, there was
nothing like the flavor of the thin meat wrapped around the bacon and onion
stuffing, held together by three toothpicks. That’s coming from a vegetarian,
too, who no longer eats meat—GASP! But, hey, we never forget the things that
made our taste buds go wild as a child, and I am comfortable admitting that the
smell of bacon is still ah-mazing.
My
mom got the recipe from her mom, who got the recipe from a couple who came to
Michigan from Germany. (Although, my maternal grandma was German, herself.)
After she got the recipe, my mom only made Rouladen once a year as well, since
it involves a lot of cooking and the meat can be quite expensive.
My
mom kept that tradition for us while we were growing up, so I decided to give
that tradition to Donovan’s mom and grandma, who live in Michigan, too.
EXCERPT:
“Here.
I also wanted to give this to you.” Meredith reached into her apron pocket and
pulled out an index card.
Beth
took it. On the top it read, “Rouladen— Goldwyn Family Recipe.” It was the
recipe passed down to all Goldwyn women.
“I
should’ve given it to you a long time ago,” Meredith said.
“I
wouldn’t have known how to make it if you had.”
Meredith
patted her hand. “When you make it the first time, we can video chat, and I can
walk you through it.”
“We
may have to do that the second time, too.”
“As
many times as you need.”
Beth
tucked the index card into her pocket with the snowball cookie recipe.
“Thank
you.”
“You’re
welcome.”
The
timer for the last batch of cookies went off. Meredith pulled it out of the
oven, not knowing how much those two recipes in Beth’s pocket truly meant to her.
They were a Christmas present on their own, more valuable than anything that
could be bought in a store.
Rouladen
Recipe:
Ingredients:
-
8
pieces round beef slices, 6 inches, ¼ inch thick
-
½
cup minced onion
-
½
pound of fried, cut-up bacon
-
Pinch
salt
-
Pinch
black pepper
-
Quartered,
peeled potatoes
-
For
gravy, you’ll need flour and water.
Instructions:
1. Cut up bacon and fry.
2. Remove bacon. Sautee
minced onion in the bacon grease.
3. Remove onions from
pan. Keep the bacon grease in the pan.
4. Mix bacon with the
onion in a bowl. Sprinkle on salt and pepper.
5. Lay out prepared beef
slices. Add a generous heap of the bacon and onion mixture into the center of
each slice.
6. Roll up the beef
slices. Use toothpicks to secure each end and the middle shut. Three toothpicks
usually do the trick.
7. Brown the rouladen
bundles in the bacon grease, on all sides.
8. Remove the rouladen
bundles and put in a roasting pan. Add some water to the bacon grease pan.
Scrape up all the goodies. Pour over the rouladen bundles. Don’t drown them,
just enough to reach half-way.
9. Bake at 350 degrees
for about an hour.
10. Halfway through the
baking time, add the quartered, peeled potatoes around the rouladen bundles,
into the juices.
11. It’s done when the
potatoes are tender. Transfer rouladen and potatoes to a dish or platter.
12.
Gravy:
Add more water or substitute beef broth to the pan if a lot of the juices
cooked down. Put pan on burner and boil. Now, in a separate bowl, mix flour and
water together. Add the flour mixture to the boiling juices until thick. If you
need to thicken it more, make more flour and water mixture and then add to the
juices. Keep mixing.
QUESTION: Did you family have a
special meal for Christmas (or any other time of the year)?
When disasters strike around every corner, is
it possible to have a happily-ever-after?
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Hoping for a peaceful Christmas,
Donovan takes Beth to Michigan. Days into their trip, a winter storm named
Nemesis moves in with the goal of burying the state. Snowdrifts surround their
house, and the temperature drops below freezing.
Except, the storm isn’t the only
nemesis they must face. Everyone’s lives are at stake—especially that of their
unborn child. Will they survive, or will they become a frozen crime?
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