Breakfast in Costa Rica, and lunch & dinner too feature one main theme - Rice & Beans!
Posters advertise it and people love it - and after the first day you will too!
Essentially it's seasoned differently for each meal, and every place has their own twist, but it's all fundamentally local stuff.
Here we have beans and plain rice, with fried plantains, lovely smashed beef, potato mix and salsa. We cooked this one outdoors on our homestay.
This was one of the restaurants versions - I learnt to avoid the spaghetti versions quite quickly - but the beans as paste and the meaty blend were great.
Breakfast saw a more traditional Gallo Pinto where the rice and beans were mixed and we got banana and omelette too. Result!
The coffee was universally good here too - all locally grown.
Another day, another traditional casada mix. We helped make this one again, but only very tangentally.
For the Americans they provide Pancake options, and it'd be rude not to try these - especially as some places were from fresh batter and absolutely amazing (others you could hear the packets being opened)
And for the final meal in Costa Rica - more rice and beans! This time with some of the nicest pork I've ever had - and the minty lemonade which got us through the hotter days.
Pura Vida!
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