Definition of "olla-podrida" [‖Ol•la-po•dri•da]

• A favorite Spanish dish, consisting of a mixture of several kinds of meat chopped fine, and stewed with vegetables. (noun)
• Any incongruous mixture or miscellaneous collection; an olio. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "From the snippets of conversation I would overhear while trying to concentrate on the sports pages, the Goddess Movement seemed less an organized religion than an olla-podrida of all things New Age."
• "And in his common daily conversation, which had heretofore been a disgusting olla-podrida of the most brutal sensuality and soul-destroying imprecations, he now expatiated with vast unction upon the marvellous power of grace which had plucked him, as it were, like a brand from the burning, and delivered him from the domination of the world, the flesh and the devil!"
• "The remainder of Book Two contains more pastry recipes and additional soups and stews, which reflect the international character of the region: olla-podrida and an adobado of sturgeon, a capon stew “in the Hungarian manner,” that archetypical Netherlandish specialty, the hutspot, or as Lancelot calls it, heusepot a veal stew, partridge “in the Catalan manner,” and a leg of mutton “roasted in the Irish way.”"