I often have a word of the day. Not an official one, this is not a
challenging quest I set myself, it is more of a ‘that word is stuck in my
brain’ sort of day.
The other day word stuck in my head was exotic.
It started with a discussion about meatloaf (food not ageing rock
star/actor beloved of Rocky Horror and Waynes World). Meatloaf and recipes thereof had been high on
my agenda for a couple of days and I had finally left one baking in the slow
cooker for the day. A key ingredient was
ketchup, not something I cook with often.
This led to a discussion about other ketchup related recipes which led
in turn to ‘sweet and sour’ which inevitably led to pineapple as I don’t eat
sweet and sour food as I don’t like pineapple.
From there we rambled on into pizzas as I wondered whether Hawaiian
pizza was still a thing; apparently it is – and it is made exotic by the
addition of pineapple. So there you have
it, I was set for a day of ‘exotic’.
and it made be briefly think about exotic planting
and at the end of the day I went home and had very
non-exotic meatloaf
