Happy Easter, meatloaf and yogurt also ND thoughts

 First, we have blogistas who observe Easter in the Greek Orthodox rite, so, Happy Easter, Christ is Risen!

And one thing led to another, ending in meatloaf, a personal first. I had planned on making meatballs with the ground Misfits turkey, then ended up doing shrimp pasta instead. I had originally planned on shrimp with rice, but suddenly fancied trying the new Italian pasta instead.

Soooo, it occurred to me that a great use of the turkey would be meatloaf. Now, full transparency, I have never eaten it, never made it. I think it's served to your family rather than guests. Anyway this famous American comfort food had never appeared on my plate.

I grew up in a period in post WW2 England where edible beef was out of most people's budget. My Mom could afford minced beef so tough and resistant she literally simmered it all night to tenderize it enough for stew. 

So no history of meatloaf, in fact she'd have been horrified at the idea. So I studied how to do this

In the second picture you'll see this week's yogurt starting up, why not, while I'm there anyway.

I seemed to have all the makings for meatloaf, cilantro instead of parsley, home pickled onions in beet pickling liquid. garlic, seasonings, all good.

And I made a glaze, apparently you need a glaze, using the last of the ketchup and a bit of molasses with raw sugar.

I mixed the turkey last night because of the yogurt needing the night before start, and left the assembled meatloaf in the fridge, assuming flavors would blend 

Today I baked it. Then before finishing, made and added the glaze and finished baking.

And here's the cook's privilege test drive

It was one pound of turkey, so it's shallow, but no harm done for that. And it's pretty good.  I'd already had lunch, shrimp pasta, hence the empty plate, because this is next week's dining pleasure.

I've microwaved sweet potatoes for filling pita bread, so a slice of this will make a good sandwich.  This is one to do again. It certainly is moist and sliced nicely, two things I understood to look out for, so there's that.

In the course of various other things pinging about what I have realized for some time is my ND (neuro-divergent) brain, I've been thinking about the years when I was thought to be a psychic because I could flash on scenes other people were thinking about and they'd think I'd read their minds. 

In a way I had, but I think I was picking up on subtle communication in other ways. To me it seemed perfectly normal no idea other people didn't do this. And I dialled back the comments when I realized other people were really scared by it.

I don't mean common or garden deja vu, I mean knowing entire dialogs which happened between people I didn't know in places I'd never been, which were about to be said by the person I was talking with.

Case in point: at an academic party in Wisconsin, met a writer I'd never heard of, for the first time and he was telling me about an experience he'd had in Oxford. 

I flashed on, and blurted out,  the whole scene, how he'd turned a corner in a country lane,  walking with a friend, and come face to face with a Henry Moore sculpture against a hedge. I'd never read or heard of such a thing, news to me.

He hadn't written about it, anyway I'd never read his writing, and he was stunned, demanded to know how I could know that. I wasn't there, didn't know who he was with. And yet I knew he was going to say it.

 

He avoided me a bit after that, a bit unnerved, then later made friends, but I suspected he was looking for copy, he being in the middle of a new novel at the time. 

My suspicions proved correct when I read it, years later, a lot of familiar dialogue in there..  It's the hazard of hanging out with writers, not a problem. 

The apparently psychic ability is,  like synaesthesia, another probably ND ability,  you assume it's  normal because why wouldn't your experience be like everyone else's? Till you find out other people don't think that way.  

Anyway it's just a passing thought. You never know what's going to happen in here.

Happy day everyone, 

Think your own thoughts. First anniversary of my borrowing this image created by AC.