German Cuisine: Roulade

Well we all know already that German culinary skills are somewhat lacking. You don't often hear someone tell their significant other, "Hey, let's get German tonight." Today I would like to introduce you to one of my least favorite dishes in the German arsenal... Roulade.

Roulade, or also known as "Rouladen" in German, is a dish made up of 5 basic parts... thinly sliced beef, bacon, mustard sauce and a pickle. You take the beef slices and cover them in mustard and lay the pieces of bacon on top. At this point you're thinking... oh that might not be too bad, but wait... To top off the whole shebang you take a intact pickle and roll the meat/mustard around it and put a stick through it to hold it all together as such...

Once it is cooked, top it off with some sort of dark red sauce and pair it up with some boiled potatoes and cabbage... bon apetit!

The thing that makes it horrible is the soft, mushy pickle in the middle that has been thoughly milked of its juices into the meat, which is a flavor combination I had never thought any sane person would have ever thought up. Sometimes you can also use turkey or even fish (as is for today's lunch menu at work) to do this! I don't know how this ever happened, but for some reason this is a very popular dish... especially for at home "cook for your date" events... thoroughly confused.