cascadas farallas, costa rica, day 6

um so i don't know what is taking me so long to update this blog thing. i really have to finish my food vacation photo uploading though. this is getting ridiculous.
so this is my sunday in costa rica back in august...
i had a fruit platter (or 2) for breakfast. which i most commonly did. and i've actually started really enjoying just eating fruit in the mornings now. even with more wintery weather coming. i don't feel any different or more hungry if i only eat fruit or if i do a maca cacao banana smoothie or chia cereal or whatever. and i feel best when i eat a bunch of different fruit - first thing on my way to the bus, when i get to work and when i have a break in the morning... it's just great. what would be greater though is if i was in costa, eating all the amazing fruit there every morning... sigh...













lunch was starfruit juice and a zucchini pesto! YAH!!!

















dinner started with zucchini soup...













and the main dish was a durian quiche. the crust was a carrot/zucchini/flax creation. i appreciated the other flavours and textures but i find it really hard to get into the durian taste. the creaminess was AMAZING but gah, i don't like the flavour and it's so hard to hide! it's so good for you but still...












dessert was a mango strawberry torte (cheesecake). YES!

cascadas farallas, costa rica, day 2 (first full day)

so... the day starts off with a drink from a young coconut, yoga and breakfast!



so i had chia cereal every morning in korea but this was better as the chia was soaked perhaps overnight (that makes it so much more gelatinous) with maybe some coconut milk and banana blended in and blueberries, strawberries and banana chunks mixed in. yummy!



had a kale juice with lunch and a green papaya salad with tomato canopies.

















and dinner started with starfruit juice and a thai salad featuring hibiscus, fennel and bok choy...














and sushi was the main course featuring rice made of cauliflower and a "salmon" sashimi made of carrot. i found the sashimi kind of bland but all in all, still exciting!













for dessert - banana surprise. blended frozen banana with nuts and blueberry coulis on top!