Food & Cuisine
Costa Rica's Blue Plate Special - "Casado"
“I’m starving!” you say after a long morning playing at the beach in front of your condo in Playa del Coco. Maybe it is the sea air, or the hot sun, or all the fun activities available to you every day, but in Costa Rica you get HUNGRY. The gnawing kind. You crave a variety of freshly prepared food in great quantities, and you want it FAST. So head to a Soda for a Casado.
Costa Rican Tamales - A Christmas Tradition
Costa Rican tamales are kind of like the Christmas cookies of Latin America. They are everywhere in December, and they’re a tradition worth experiencing.
Costa Rica Thanksgiving
A golden-skinned turkey, aromatic stuffing, tart cranberries, and the warm spices of pumpkin pie…everyone’s mouth starts to water sometime in November just thinking about the traditional Thanksgiving menu. But what about a Costa Rica Thanksgiving? Can you still celebrate a US/Canadian holiday in a Central American country?
Costa Rica eggs not refrigerated? Why?
When I take new clients around to see the sites and the many great offerings in the Playa Hermosa area of Costa Rica, I always get this question all time when I take them to the grocery stores; “How come the eggs are not refrigerated?”
Coffee, a Costa Rica Requirement
If you are not a coffee drinker (because you have been living on the moon), you will likely become one when you move to Costa Rica because, frankly, you cannot live here without drinking Costa Rica coffee.
Can’t get exotic foods in Costa Rica?
Lets face it, we all need to eat to stay alive right? Some eat just to survive and then there are people like me that find great pleasure in eating for many reasons, not just survival. When I retired from the hospitality industry and first moved to Costa Rica over eight years ago, this was something that was a bit of a concern for me.
A Day at the Feria in Liberia Costa Rica
The cost for 3 medium pineapples = ₡1000 or $1.87. Yes….you read that right! These are the juiciest, best tasting pineapples ever!
Picadillo - What is it and how do you make it?
Do you know what Picadillo is? If you have been to Costa Rica, I am sure you may have had it and did not even know. I don’t know about you, but I am a fan of multiple-ingredient dishes. Therefore, I am a huge fan of a common Costa Rica dish called Picadillo
Plantains a Costa Rica Favorite
When I first came to Costa Rica in 1999, I saw what I now know to be plantains in the fruit and vegetable stand and I thought, “Wow! Those are the biggest bananas I have ever seen!” Even though I had been working as a sous chef in the Midwest of the US, plantains were nowhere to be found.
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