Wordpress. Dinner, Hypoglycemia.

You know, I do not like Wordpress. If you read and then comment on someone’s Wordpress blog you are then asked to ‘confirm follow’. Once maybe;  but every time you make a comment you are asked to do the same. It’s a flaming nuisance. I don’t understand why they can’t do it once and that’s it.

Saturday night we went to have dinner at a friend’s home and our main course was Rouladen which we haven’t eaten in years. A girlfriend’s mother used to make them and we always enjoyed them. I don’t really know why I have never cooked them myself. Below is a recipe I found from AllRecipes.com. There seem to be several different recipes available. Something which happens with an old, traditional dish.

We had wine with our meal and later when we were home I started to feel as though I had had too much wine. I didn’t take a lot of notice at first, and went to bed. I woke an hour later and felt as though I had been “on the mop” for hours. My brain slowly told me I was probably having a sugar low (hypoglycemia) so I heaved myself out of bed and checked my readings, as I thought, very low so I ate some honey which does the trick. This is something people with diabetes need to watch for – very occasionally you can feel and behave as if you are drunk when in fact you have hypoglycemia. This can actually be very dangerous especially if others with you just assume the worst and don’t give you any help, and if the readings go low enough, you do need help. Most people with diabetes carry some emergency sugar source with them, I carry gummy bears in my purse I also have small cans of very sugary drinks at home including one in the bedside locker which I should have drunk last night instead of staggering to the living room to take my readings. As you can see from the above, confusion is a symptom too. Highlighted above is a very good article I have just been reading. I didn’t realise this is something non diabetics can also suffer from and the article explains why and what to do. To emphasize the seriousness, a young woman who was a friend’s girlfriend, died last year because of untreated hypoglycemia.

German Rouladen

Recipe by Ron Oldham
Serves 6

"Meat rolls filled with bacon, onions and pickles. Delicious, easy recipe learned while visiting Germany. "

• 1/2 pounds flank steak
• German stone ground mustard, to taste
  
• 1/2 pound thick sliced bacon
  
• 2 large onions, sliced
  
• 1 (16 ounce) jar dill pickle slices
  
• 2 tablespoons butter
  
• 2 1/2 cups water
  
• 1 cube beef bouillon
  

Directions

1. Cut the flank steak into thin filets; about 1/4 inch thick and 3 inches wide.
2. Generously spread one side of each filet with mustard to taste. Place bacon, onions and pickle slices on each filet and form into a roll. Use string or toothpicks to hold the roll together.
3. Heat a skillet over medium heat and melt butter. Place the rolls in the butter and sauté until browned.
4. Pour in 2 1/2 cups of water and add the bouillon cube; stirring to dissolve the bouillon cube. Simmer the rolls for about an hour.

1.  My Comments: The juice is served as a gravy. I just read another recipe which recommends adding red wine to the pot as well as a can of tomatoes. This recipe doesn't say anything about thickening the gravy, never having done it myself, I don't know, but you might want to be prepared to do so.

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