I'll drag this on until someone yells uncle. It's off topic but what
else is new.
One of my favorite foods there was the black bean soup or "sopa negro
typical". I admit to eating fully two bowls before I realized the
diaphanous membranous structure lurking in the bowl was an egg cracked
into the soup to boil into whatever form it chose.
On 11/18/08, Mogrits <mogrits AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes what they call salad we would call slaw. We were served it with
> radish in places that had it available. Coarse grated but much drier
> than Southern cole slaw.
>
> All the talk about Lynn's bulls brings me to the beef...El Shaddai,
> that stuff was good! All the beef and all the chickens seemed to be
> free range, and popped with flavor. Many restaurants had elaborate
> fireplace cookers set up, with gear reduction rotisseries rigged with
> bicycle gears turning scores of whole chickens at a time. I had a beef
> tenderloin at a steakhouse (I think El Novilla, near La Fortuna) that
> was actually square on the plate and approximately an inch thick. It
> appeared to have been sliced on the bias from an American cut, yet
> cut with the fork. The carne with sides was about 4950 colones, or 9
> dollars. (I forget what the Imperials added).
>
> I wish this list was picture friendly- I took as many pictures of the
> sodas and food as I did the scenery and Ticos.
>
> On 11/17/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Mogrits wrote:
>>
>>> Also, a "taco" down there is quite a pleasure. Especially if eaten
>>> roadside in one of the many "sodas" along the way. Stringed seasoned
>>> beef usually, rolled in a tortilla and lightly fried, topped with a
>>> "salad" of cabbage, carrots, vinegar and a few seasonings.
>>>
>>> I think with two more weeks I could have been passably orally
>>> literate- the Spanish wasn't particularly difficult to read but
>>> writing it, for me, might take a few years to master. (One can dream).
>>>
>>> Warren
>>
>> It is not hard to learn, Warren, and in so many ways, it makes more
>> sense than ingles.
>> Mi amigos en trabajo always brought tacos and tamales and such for
>> lunch, always with the little salad you describe...we'd call it slaw, I
>> think. My friends would also add radishes to the list of condiments.
>> Before that, I had always eaten radishes either au natural or in a
>> salad. Now, I grate them or slice them, use them as garnish for my
>> guacamole and other dishes, then just add it to the list of taco
>> toppings. The radish seems to bring out the flavors in the meat
>> taco..and I never would have thought that.
>>
>> B
>>
>> --
>> "Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to
>> hate. Hate leads to suffering." Yoda
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