I took my neighbor out to breakfast to celebrate her birthday. We went to Sleepy Bee, one of my favorites. I tried this sandwich because it had vegan goetta. Goetta is a local food, much loved in Cincinnati. It's made from sausage and steel cut oats, fried in slices. As a vegetarian, I'd never sampled it and was happy to see this version. It was good.
Everything I've tried at Sleepy Bee is good, especially the pancakes. I love pancakes and theirs are light and fluffy, like mine never are.
My grandmother used to make mush, made with oats or cornmeal. I wish I knew which hers was made of, but I don't. My grandmother's mush was similar to goetta in that it was sliced and fried. My grandmother and I ate it with Karo syrup. Growing up, we never had maple syrup or pancake syrup, always Karo.
I loved mush and would beg my mother to make it but she never would. I'm guessing that's because she ate a lot of it during the depression, but I'm not sure of that.
(Thinking of my much-loved grandmother, she was blond, blue-eyed and short. I got none of those genes.)
My grandmother made me something ... I think it was fried as well. But I cannot recall it.
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My mother's mush was made with cornmeal. We ate it hot with sugar and milk. Leftover mush was patted into a bread/loaf pan and refrigerated, then sliced and fried and eat with (yes) karo syrup. You've really jogged a memory her!
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