Humongus Rouladen De Woolfe

Total Time: 6 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 6 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 lbs round steaks, 1/3 inch thick (there were 3 steaks roughly 8" by 6)
• 1/4 lb bacon, diced and frizzled a bit (i used some beef bacon i wanted to try and sprinkled the cooling bits with hickory liquid smoke.)
• 3 tablespoons softened cream cheese
• 1 medium yellow onion, fine dice
• 2 large sweet gherkins, julienne
• 2 cups beef broth (i used a beef/onion gravy mix and to it added 1 heaping tbs crushed dehydrated shitake mushroom.)
• salt and pepper
• the bacon fat, left in the pan after frizzling
• 4 small rose' potatoes, halved and lightly pre cooked in the microwave (this is just a habit of mine to be sure the spuds are done in the middle.)

Recipe

• 1 frizzle the bacon, dice the pickles and onion.
• 2 lay the meat out long way from you and spread the first 1/4 with cream cheese.
• 3 put one third the bacon on the cream cheese and start rolling.
• 4 put 1/3 of the pickles and onions next.
• 5 roll and tie, keep the width under the size of your crockpot.
• 6 sear the outside in that bacon fat.
• 7 put the halved potatoes on the bottom of the crockpot.
• 8 put the rouladen on top of the potatoes.
• 9 add any leftover onion, bacon, or pickle.
• 10 pour the gravy/broth over everything in the pot.
• 11 1hour on high and about 6hours on low.
• 12 you might want to turn them in the pot after, say, 4 hours or so.
• 13 remove the rouladen and potatoes.
• 14 then thicken the gravy to taste with whatever you normally use, i usually use arrowroot for a neutral taste.