Costa Rica Cooking

I am not the cooker! I'm the eater! My theory has always been "Why cook when my Dad is an amazing chef and cooks meals everyday!?" There was never a need to learn to cook. Even when Brian and I got married, I would get a text message from my dad saying there were left overs and we should come over! It's quite sad that I don't have any pictures of his cooking. I guess I just jump right in instead of photographing it! Here are a few pix of my Daddy who I miss so much!!







Now that we are in Costa Rica, WOW things have really changed! I was pretty nervous, but willing to try some stuff. I've been making some yummy crepes and banana pancakes for breakfast. I just made some yummy hashbrowns this morning! They certainly were delicious!



I had a minor mishap with some brownie s'mores I tried to make! They looked so good on the internet and they didn't look too difficult...boy was I wrong! 3 things I did NOT know before attempting these delicious s'mores: 1. Graham crackers are so hard to find here in Costa Rica, so we had to make do with some wheat grainy crackers that were more like wheat thins! 2. Baking chocolate is impossible to find in a small town! I had to use this crazy chocolate that was like wax and meant for chocolate dipped bananas, which are also nasty wax bananas! 3. Costa Rica ovens are in celsius, not fahrenheit! So when I read 325 F, I went to the oven and was puzzled why it only went to 250. So I just figured it was an old oven that didn't go very high and said...I guess just go as high as we can! We can probably get to 275...C not F! That means I baked that bad boy at 527 F!!! Yeah, not a success by any means! Lessoned learned!



A few others I have made so far are: Haupia, many different fruit smoothies, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate cake with frosting and peach cobbler! All in all, we are having a wonderful time and are enjoying every minute. (Don't ask my husband how the s'more brownies were!)