Amelia is always at her house with her porch doors open for customers. Her prices don't vary and they are much cheaper than in the stores and restaurants
She pretty much can eye a whole tuna and cut exactly the amount you request (the only picture I didn't get was of the scale). We usually just buy a 1/2 kilo and that is sufficient for a dinner for two. Her husband and three of his partners fish every morning to ensure a healthy supply of fish. The fish are usually caught that morning or the day before. Que Rico!!
Here is the finished version on our plate!
Another wonderful benefit of living in Costa Rica is the fruit. We are now regulars at a fruit stand on our way to Potrero. One of the guys is a super good salesmen, he lets you try almost anything you want, and then of course I always end up buying it. Fortunately, John and I are good fruit eaters and we never let anything go to waste! I think one of my new favorite fruits is a mangostein and the locals say it's good for cancer prevention too (not sure if it's true...tried to look it up on the internet and I couldn't find)! It is just amazing how many wonderful and different kinds of fruit that God has created (and there's so many more I've yet to try). At some point I'll have to do a whole blog on just fruits so I'll never forget them!
Here's John drinking a coconut where we live. Below are the supplies and yes that's a machete! After we drink the coconut, there is a coconut lining that you can dig out and eat (I think that's John's favorite part). Muy rico!
Last photo...to go along with my food-themed post... a simple bowl of mango. Didier, from English class, brought us 3 mangos a week or so ago. I haven't had such a good mango since my Mamaw and Papaw's mango tree in Florida was still alive (my dad would always say that their mangos were so sweet because the sewer ran under the tree). I don't know how my Mamaw would always cut the perfect slices of mango. I've actually been having a hard time cutting those same slices (it feels like I'm going to slice something else). Somebody told me a trick yesterday on how to cut them so they are not so slippery. I'll keep you posted if it actually works!
With all this talk about good food from the sea and on the land, I am just so thankful for God's creation and His creativity (once I post more pics you'll see what I mean)!
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that
is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit.
You shall have them for food.
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to
everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of
life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. Genesis 1:29-30
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