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Goetta
Goetta is a meat-and-grain sausage or mush of German inspiration that is popular in the greater Cincinnati/northern Kentucky area. It’s a German breakfast sausage that blends the textures and flavors of pork, beef, whole grain steel-cut oats, fresh onions and spices.
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Cincinnati Chili
Have your chili 3, 4 or 5 ways, Cincinnati style. This is also great on hot dogs, smothered with shredded cheese.
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Linda’s Midwestern Pot Roast
Once you cook pot roast in this manner, you will always want to make it this way. It’s fall-apart tender. The secret to good pot roast is coating it with flour and browning it well before baking.
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Charlie Gitto’s St. Louis Toasted Ravioli
This fabled recipe comes from Charlie Gitto’s restaurant in St. Louis’s Hill neighborhood.
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Shaker Lemon Pie
Also known as Ohio Lemon Pie, this delicious pie comes from the Midwestern Shaker communities long ago.
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Maid-Rites
The Angel brothers of Muscatine, Iowa, would be proud. Their loose meat sandwich, dubbed a Maid Rite and first served in 1926, is still being served today. Comfort food at its best, this ground beef mixture seasoned with chopped onion and beef bouillon is served on pillow-soft rolls. It’s stick-to-your-ribs great food. Those of you with recipes that call for ketchup in the recipe have got a FAKE recipe. Maid-Rite has NEVER added ketchup to their meat for their classic burger while cooking it. The secret is twice-ground ground beef (probably the cheapest you can find). The meat is very, very fine. We know all this because our family is from Muscatine!
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Iowa Spaghetti Sauce
When we were young, we looked forward to visiting my Aunt Anita in Muscatine, Iowa. She always had this ready for us when we arrived. We fought over the mushrooms so, over time, she added up to three times the amount of mushrooms called for! This is a very unusual and very tasty spaghetti sauce.
