Comments on: Costa Rican Breakfast- Everything You Need To Know

By: Jack Fiasco

Jack Fiasco — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:00:43 +0000

In reply to Ann. I'm in Costa Rica right now and have been eating this breakfast. No sugar involved and I don't think much oil either. It's rice and beans, eggs, a piece of sausage, and a couple slices of plantain. Not sure if we read the same article?

By: Christa Jimenez

Christa Jimenez — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:48:56 +0000

In reply to Chriselda. Hello! Thank you so much for your lovely comments and kind words. I started this blog out of necessity as I was wanting to cook for my Costa Rican husband and needed to know how to make is favorite recipes. 18 years later- here we are! Pura vida! ~Christa

By: Chriselda

Chriselda — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 19:13:45 +0000

Christa!

My name is Chriselda (I am Filipina) and my Costa Rican husband’s name is Christopher. We absolutely LOVED your article, you have SOO many exquisite food suggestions! I am going to make many of these for my husband thanks to you! We have been married 19 years and I won him over in 2004 when we met by cooking the Costa Rican Pepper Steak. Back then the internet just barely started so no one had any recipes. Now I’ve found you, wow, you have changed our food lives. Planning on visiting there someday, we live in Seattle. You are wonderful and we appreciate all the time you took to make this article. Blessings and gratitude,

Chriselda and Christopher

By: Christa Jimenez

Christa Jimenez — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 17:38:03 +0000

In reply to Ann. I am sure you can eat meat for every meal of the day! Just ask! And beset of luck. Pura Vida! ~Christa

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 17:34:43 +0000

Great info, and it all sounds delightful. But for us carnivores (animal-based food only), all that sugar and grains fried in inflammatory seed oil, is an absolute nightmare. Thank goodness for one real food we can hope for: eggs. Looking forward to exploring Costa Rica, none the less. We’ll just have to fast every day until we find somewhere to eat meat in the evening.

By: Christa Jimenez

Christa Jimenez — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 21:13:42 +0000

In reply to Sitzman. Hey Sitz! I like the en ayunas idea too. Either way- it means you are hungry in the morning! Pura vida! ~Christa

By: Sitzman

Sitzman — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:40:25 +0000

I’d not thought of desayuno as being like the first wish, but that’s a nice thought. I remember talking about it with my students since they thought the word “breakfast” was weird. But I explained that fast also means “not eating,” and pointed out that it was also the same idea in Spanish (breaking the fast of sleep, and no longer being “en ayunas”).

Anyhow, thanks, nice article!