Costa Rica breakfast dinner

We decided to make a meal from Costa Rica. When we pulled up the Wikipedia entry for Costa Rican cuisine, the photo showed a typical Costa Rican breakfast. Who doesn't like having breakfast for dinner? Certainly we like it. So we made the following meal:

poached eggs,
toast,
gallo pinto,
fried plantains,
and to drink, one of M's favorites, Mighty Mango Naked Juice.

M's Interruption
Hi. I liked the brinner, which is, yes, breakfast for dinner. Here is some other awesome naked juices:
Blue,green and red machine
Berry blast

Those are just some. You can find lots at Cub and Target. Some are at DBC.


back to Mom
Gallo pinto, which means spotted rooster, is black beans and rice, which are cooked separately and then pan fried together. It is often served with Lizano salsa but, as we couldn't find any at our local grocery stores, we had HP sauce with our gallo pinto.

I had never had plantains. I liked the taste, not as sweet and firmer than regular bananas.

It was an easy and yummy Friday night dinner.

I get my salsa from New York City!

Actually my salsa recipe. And it's from Spanish Harlem, to be exact. This is taken from FETCH!. In the challenge Sammy (one of the FETCHers) goes to Spanish Harlem to, apparently, learn the ingredients to salsa music and buys the ingredients for salsa (the food). In the other challenge Sam, Noel and Harsha make a cake protector. Oh, and D.J. and Jay get a perfect score in the Half-time Quiz Show.



Mom's Interruption
M did a great job of copying the recipe from the TV screen. But you'll notice what's missing from the recipe (shown in the picture above): what are we supposed to do with the ingredients?? We simply added everything to the food processor and coarsely chopped. To my tastes, the result is just a little sour ("pocky," to use M's word). Maybe we were just supposed to use the juice of the 3 limes? Next time, I'd probably add whole limes again, but use only two limes. Even with three limes, I agree with Ruff's pronouncement that "this is an excellent salsa" (and a very easy one, too).

The green tomatoes came from our garden and the garlic from our local farmer's market. And we even managed to find locally produced corn chips.

Back to M
I like this salsa, even though I don't usually like tomatoes and we have some great chips, too. I like watching FETCH! and I see it almost everyday.