For the love of food...

This morning I woke up with a stone in my stomach - again. Well, what do you expect if the last week you've been eating the Costa Rican way - rice and beans every single meal!

But you know what - I managed to convince them to buy some yogurt for me. So this morning I felt like a princess - happy as ever with my strawberry yogurt!

For lunch I have, surprise-surprise - rice and beans!!!

Helado de sorbetera

... is just another really-really delicious thing I discovered. As I am a total ice-cream addict who really likes ginger-bread and adores cinnamon.... the costaricans have just the thing for me: an ice-cream with a taste of something in between cinnamon and gingerbread... thus eating it the way a little child - having ice-cream all over your table and yourself as well - makes really a fun out of it! (and of course the ice-cream men saying compliments about your eyes - it´s just the way life is over here)

First impressions of food

Food no 1: Gallo pinto = rice and beans. In some homes you can get rice and beans 24 hors a day, 7 days a week. So no wonder everyone gains a lot of weight here!
But fortunately the first 3 weeks for me is exactly the food I'd expect from a tropical country: fruits and yogurt for breakfast + the wonderful-wonderful Costa Rican coffee. For lunch soup and salad, sometimes rice or lenses. And for dinner just something light.
Oh I just love this country with all the variety of vegetables and fruits!!!