Nice recipe to dress up round steak. re: dry vs. fresh - for most herbs you should always cut the measure at least in half if you use dry (there are exceptions). Rosemary is strong anyway (and can be a bit chewey) - so if you haven't cooked with it before it's probably best to reduce it a bit further than that the first time.
I didn't want to pan fry the steak so I used the sauce as a marinade and grilled them on the grill. This was one of the best steaks I have had in years. I used flat-iron steaks and marinated them in the sauce for 5 hours before grilling. Better than the steaks I have had in steak houses!! The entire family loved them.
I made this a couple months ago and just haven't gotten around to rating it. I thought the flavors were really unique and amazing. The flavor is really strong though so it's one of those recipes you'll either love or hate. Didn't have bacon and was still good without it.
I'd rate the recipe as written using round steak a four...the sauce was definitely 5 star though. It was soo good that you didn't even care if your meat was rather tough but next time I'll save the round steak for a crockpot recipe & top a N.Y. Strip w/ this delicious sauce. The only changes I made to the recipe were cutting back just a tad on the mustard in the sauce (I didn't have sweet/spicy mustard so I added a bit of honey to spicy brown mustard) & I used real bacon bits instead of frying bacon. I did cook my steaks in just a little bacon grease though. Will have the sauce again on a better cut of meat...thanks!
Made a couple of alterations to this one and it is really good. I didn't care to have the crumbled bacon on top of the steak because it made the steak seem crunchy. But at the same time I did like cooking the steak in the bacon greese. Oh the dilema here. My solution... add the bacon to a baked potato. Also I added a few sliced mushrooms saute in the sauce and it turned out really well. Go easy on the Rosemary three tablespoons is too much. One or two works or just eyeball it.
I substituted tequilla for the whiskey and left out the brown sugar. It was great.
This was my first time ever cooking steak and I made it perfectly. The only thing I thought it needed was a bit more of a sauce but less mustard taste. I was expecting it to be different than it was but it still turned out wonderfully! Great recipe!!!
Rosemary too overpowering. Otherwise the sauce was pretty good. I used dried Rosemary instead of fresh. Maybe that was the problem?
This is a great recipe but cleanup was a nightmare. I used 1 tsp. dried rosemary and ended up adding a little more lemon juice Worcestershire and brown sugar as the sauce seemed to evaporate almost immediately. Other than that the sauce was a hit and the steak an otherwise mediocre cut of meat was a hit. I will definitely use it again but I won't put my Calphalon pan through the ringer!
