Goettafest

Have you ever had goetta?! {ged-da} Eh, chances are a lot of you out there haven’t. Unless you’ve spent anytime living around Cincinnati. We love our goetta. Seriously. We even have multiple festivals for it.

For those of you not in the know I’ll explain what it is. Basically it’s a breakfast meat. Yes, seriously. It’s sort of like a sausage, and typically sold in plastic wrapped link like sausage and you can slice it and fry it up or sort of brown it like hamburger meat. It has a little bit of a spice to it like sausage but it’s its own sort of taste. The two biggest ingredients are ground pork (or a combination of pork/beef) and steel cut oats. It’s super popular around Cincinnati where we have a lot of german roots and was a peasant dish made to help meat stretch further.

It might not sound like the most appetizing thing even just hearing about it but I admit it pretty good! It’s actually the only breakfast meat I’ll eat, I’m not a fan of the others. 

This past weekend there was a local Goettafest down on the Ohio River. Some how my adorable husband has made it his entire life without going to a single Goettafest. Unbelievable. So we remedied that this weekend and went. 

As we strolled into the festival we past by dinky carnival and bounce rides for kidos, a caricature artist, booths and booths of food where the “typical” ingredient has been replaced with goetta instead, lots of people and a live cover-band. 

After scooping out the options (which included goetta nachos, hot brown with turkey goetta, goetta burrito, goetta corn dog, deep fried goetta balls, goetta {not crap} rangoon, goetta sushi, goetta hoagie, goetta cheese coney and more!) we got a goetta calzone from Papa Johns. I’ve gotten it before and informed John that it was good so that’s why he wanted to try it, and it was very good. 

Then we got a little more adventurous. They also have goetta desserts but I’ve never been brave enough to try one, but the husband was! So we went the the local bakery booth and got the goetta brownie. The goetta was only in the chocolate ganache on top and it just gave it a little sweet and salty taste but you honestly hardly knew it was there. And it was a pretty darn good brownie!

Quick update on Mr. Pit! The pit is cracking and i noticed when changing and refilling his water that there is a white sprout growing, all tucked up inside it! yay!!