La+Comida+De+Costa+Rica

Costa Rican food is extremely healthy, fresh and delicious. Families grow most of what they eat. Tropical fruits like guava,pineapples,bananas,passionfruit, and soursop are at every meal either a juice or as a fruit. Breakfast is typically gallo pinto ,rice and black beans,fresh eggs,sausages,yogurt, cereal,fruit,cream cheese,fresh Costa Rican cheese,toast,pastries and Costa Rican coffee with hot milk. El Almuerzo is gallo pinto,salad,chicken,fish,maybe beef, pickled vegetables,bean puree, chilies in vinegar sauce,fresh fruit and more Costa Rican coffee. Costa Rican coffee is very dark and very strong. Everywhere you go they ask you con lech o negro? The leche is served very hot and the sugar is usually raw sugar. They usually will have break at 4 and they will serve more coffee,pineapple jam, pastries,blackberry jam,tropical fruit juices. Around 7 they have dinner which is Tilapia,chicken in onion tomato jam,beef in a vinegar sauce,fresh vegetables,salad and MORE GALLO PINTO!!!!!! Our home stay made delicious tilapia from the tanks on her property. She also made us coco de miel which was a shredded co nut in a sweet milk sauce. It was delicious. The snacks they have are ice cream usually coconut or blackberry or maybe chocolate,,little hard corn crackers or fresh fruit. Everything has been really delicious. The best part has been the coffee which is grown in Costa Rica.At our home stay we ate fresh tortillas with eggs right from the families chickens. They produced eggs with very yellow yolks. We also ate tilapia that had been caught only minutes before we ate it. One of the teachers in my group gutted and scaled it( something I was not up for!) One thing I do miss in Costa Rica is diet coke, it is not easy too find and ice has not been readily available either and it has been hot here!