Pejibaye Festival in Tucurrique Costa Rica
When one thinks of a pejibaye, or peach palm fruit, most often their mind goes to the curious orange ball […]
Fruits, Foods, Recipes of Costa Rica
Images of the fruits and food that grows on our farm in Limon, Costa Rica. Detailed recipes and video how-to’s.
Homemade Hot Pepper Sauce (Saucius maximus)
How to make your own savory hot pepper sauce from your hot pepper harvest. It took us a few years but
Plantain Fritters, Patacones, Atole – How To Cook Those Things that Look like Big Bananas
Plantain recipes for every meal, breakfast, lunch, dinner or dessert. The plantain is a starchy fruit that grows from a herb,
Breadnut (Artocarpus camansi) Commonly Known as Castana in Costa Rica
Chestnuts in Central America? The breadnut tree, which is in the Mora family, produces a large oblong shaped fruit that
Caribbean Rice-n-Beans, Coconut Rice and Beans
How to make Caribbean Rice n Beans using fresh coconuts, garden vegetables, and herbs. We visit restaurants that are owned
Raw Sugar Cane Processing using Manual Press
This article shows how we harvest sugarcane or sugar cane from our garden and make sugar cane juice on a
Food Dehydrator Solar DIY
How to make your own Food Dehydrator using Solar Energy (the power of the sun) Why build a Solar Food Dehydrator?
Nance Fruit Tree (Byrsonima crassifolia)| How to make Chicha de Nance
The Nance (Brysonima crassifolia) Fruit Tree (Nahn-C). How to make Chicha de Nance or Nance soaked in Guaro. The Nance (Brysonima Crassifolia)
Naranjilla Fruit
Naranjilla Fruit (Solanum quitoense) How it grows and how we use the fruit for juice Naranjilla (na-rang-E-ya) is a medium-sized,
Growing Coffee Plants
Growing Coffee – Choosing the best plants for our altitude and soil type. The terrain here in Costa Rica varies
Passion Fruit Maracuja and Leaffooted Bugs Who Love Them
Passion Fruit (Passiflora edulis) or Maracuya. Images of the passion fruit arbor, bugs, fruits and seeds. Our favorite flavor of
Making Raw Chocolate 10 Easy Steps
Making Raw Chocolate video takes you through the steps to make your own home made chocolate. Use the recipe or just
Fresh Corn Corn Bread or Costa Rica Pan de Elote
Pan de Elote is Costa Rica Corn Bread using Fresh Corn from the Cob Growing corn in the rain forest is difficult. Growing
Farm Food Ceviche Banano – Banana Ceviche
Banana Ceviche – how to use green bananas to make a fresh chilled soup Ceviche is a cold soup normally
DIY Beehive Stingless Bees
DIY Beehive for Stingless Bees We have been wanting to practice bee keeping for a long time. In the U.S.
Ma-ma-ma – My Mamones
Mamones Fruit or Mamon Chino Everytime we take a walk around San Miguel we come back with armloads of whatever
Pokeweed or Poke Salad (Phytolacca icosandra)
Poke Salad using Pokeweed (Phytolacca icosandra) I was on my way to the creek when I passed this plant with
Costa Rica Living, Fruits, Foods, Recipes of Costa Rica, Leaving Corporate America for a Better Life
Value of $4.50 in Costa Rica
Value of $4.50 in Costa Rica for an U.S. expat in 2012 There are a lot and I mean a
Making Tamales for Christmas in Costa Rica (Video)
A video on making tamales for christmas in Costa Rica. How we did our part by getting leaves from the
Araza Fruit, Araca Boi (Eugenia stipitata) – Smoothie ingredient
Araza Fruit, Araca Boi (Eugenia stipitata) Identification & Uses Araza a really sour, yellow, softball sized fruit that has a thin
Pejibaye (Bactris gasipaes) Peach Palm – Harvesting to Cooking (VIDEO)
Harvesting, Cooking and Preparing Pejibaye, Peach Palm Fruit Pejibaye, or Peach Palm, is a squash type fruit that grows high
Pineapples
Pineapples are a big business here in Costa Rica. The big companies use chemicals, to keep pests down, that are
An Abundance of Limes
Photo’s of our lime trees and how we use them for juice, pie and after dinner drinks. We have 6
Our Cacao Trees and How We Make Nibs
Cacao trees, fruits and how we roast the beans to make nibs We have approximately 25 cacao trees here on
Cacao Blooms – Start to Finish
The Cacao blooms are attached to the trunk of the tree. It seems to me that this is a natural
Our Cacao in bloom
We have about 25 cacao trees along our creeks here in Costa Rica. We have been playing around with the
Butter, Bounty and the Toucan: A New Life in Costa Rica (VIDEO)
Making Butter, Collecting Fruit and a Myriad of Birds We arrived on December 7th and it has rained every day