I want to introduce you to Goetta

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the person who may or may not have introduced you to Bacon Explosion would like to introduce you to her ABSOLUTE FAVORITE BREAKFAST MEAT EVAH, and see if you agree that this is DS friendly.

Goetta.

This is not to be confused with the Goetia - those of you who ARE familiar with the Goetia will probably snicker at this point.  DO NOT EAT the Goetia.

However, Goetta is stunning.

Goetta is a german meat thing.  It's not really a sausage, but is generally made with beef, pork and pin oats boiled together into a grey mush, refrigerated until fully congealed, and then fried in a pan in patties or in slabs.  This stuff goes great by itself or in an omlett with nice, sharp cheese.

Here's some pics:

*(Looks like sausage, doesn't it?  IT'S NOT!  This is very mild, full of oats and very tasty)


*(Pardon me while I whip this out... BAM!)

www.goetta.com/ -> This is the website for Glier's Goetta.  They make these commercially and sell them in my hometown (Cincinnati) and in surrounding regions.  It's not a nationwide dish, so many of you have never known the joy that is Goetta.

Here's a recipe for how to make it at home: http://www.abouteating.com/goetta.shtml

That's not the only recipe out there.  There are family recipes across the web that you can pick up and try.  That one in particular is all pork and, as I've said prior, some will also cut the pork with beef.

So, lots of meat, some celery, spices, onion, and pin oats.  This is good stuf for DS, right?  I may have to make some this weekend for the first time.  I'd always been lazy and just brought some packs back from Cincy when I visit.

 Looks like scrapple to me.  Same thing?

The concept is the same but the flavoring is different.  I think the texture is also different - I don't think scrapple incorporates pin oats, but I could be incorrect on that one.

From Wikipedia:

While similar to scrapple in that it contains a grain product and meat for the purpose of stretching out the meat over several days, goetta looks very different. Scrapple is made with meal while goetta uses steel-cut or chopped oats. The oats in goetta are much coarser than the fine powder used in scrapple, and add texture to the dish.

I grew up in the Cincy area and know Goetta well.. LOVE the stuff.  I was devastated when I realized not every area of the country sells it!  My mom knows to head to the store and buy a brick of it whenever I come home.  It's *delicious* with a runny egg yolk slathered over it too.. 

One picture I saw while browsing through google was of an Eggs Benedict made with goetta.  It looks heavenly and I'm definitely going to try it some day.

I'm going to pick up a pork shoulder tonight and see if I can't whip up a batch of homemade.  I've never done it before, but I imagine it will be passable.  I have, however, learned that it's hard as HELL to mimic a skyline chili recipe.  It just never turns out the same as when you get it fresh.

Um, you said DO NOT EAT the goetia.  How could you eat it?  According to what I can find, goetia is:

Goetia refers to a practice whi*****ludes the invocation of angels or the evocation of demons, and usage of the term in English largely derives from the 17th century grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon, which features an Ars Goetia as its first section. It contains descriptions of the evocation of seventy-two demons, famously edited by Aleister Crowley in 1904 as The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King.

Is there also a food named goetia?

Goetia is also the (shortened) name of said Crowley book involving said practice - eating it would be a very, very bad idea.

LOL!! I was thinking when I read your post - Wait, isn't that some Crowley thing? and wondered if I ate it could I summon demons with my arse? I know my husband & dogs would believe it. 

Oh yes!  I'm so glad my stupid little demonology joke wasn't in vain.