A gorgeous pink candy flower

A lovely looking pink flower at my friend's organic firm at Canalette, Upala.

water melon season is in!

Finally, water melon season is here! Yummy!!!

Upala, my friend's firm

I stayed at my friend's firm in Upala, northern part of Costa Rica last weekend.
I was expecting his firm to be my scary WWOOFing experience in southern Spain in 2005, but his place turned out to be like a paradise. He's got the basics(water, lights, refrigerator, shower and toilet in open air), and lots of fruit trees and greens. His firm is huge and enjoyed walking tour of his firm in the wild jungle where there are many fruit trees planted, gorgeous river, and a great view of the city. I felt comfortable and relaxed completely at his firm.
Hope to visit his firm agina soon...

30 coconuts

30 yummy coconuts were delivered to my house this afternoon. I have asked the coco man to open 15 of them and the rest un-open so they remain fresh. They cost 6,000 colones (about $12). What a great discount. He sells one coconut for 300 colones, so it is 9,000 without a discount. I just asked him the price and he just nods. How beautiful!
Yesterday, I made coconut soup with cilantro and turmeric. It was surprisingly delicious!

from La finisterra at Playa Hermosa. I was out all day long with my work - jet skiing, having meetings with cool people at Liberia, Playa del coco, Playa de Hermosa, and Sardinal. It was so much fun!

Pipa, fresh coconut from Upala

This guy sells fresh and sweet coconut every morning. He says that the coconuts come from Upala (northern part of Costa Rica). I have asked him to bring 10 coconuts this morning, and I have already finished 8 coconuts water this morning.
I have asked him to bring me 30 coconuts tomorrow morning. How beautiful getting delivered coconuts to your home and getting discount on top of it. Yeah!
1 coconut costs 300 colones (about 60cents, 70円). 10 coconuts for 2,500 colones (about $5) Yeah to the discount! Let's see how much I would buy 30 coconuts tomorrow...

For lunch, I had Green soup (2 coconut meat, water, salt, soysauce, extra virgin olive oil, turmeric). This was surprisingly good. Tasted like avocado. I've added turmeric because my wonderful acupuncturist suggested me to take (as I don't care so much of the taste, this was a great way to eat consume - the soup had no taste of turmeric).
I also made sushi rice with shredded cabbage, sesame, ginger, and over night soaked oatmeal. I wrap the "sushi rice" in nori, and it sure tasted like Japanese sushi rice!

papaya ginger smoothie

I went to a cool acupuncturist, who speaks 4 languages fluently (English, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese), referred by my raw food friends. He is half Japanese and half Korean. His wife is Tica (Costarican) and their son's name is Japanese, Kiyoshi.
The doctor told me I have a "cold" body with a bad circulation, and suggested to take ginger and curcume (ginger like root vegetable). So I have been adding ginger whenever I get chance.
Ingredients of the smoothie: papaya, water, naturally grown lemon, organic ginger, raw organic honey, naturally grown aloe vera.
Papaya was not so sweet but this smoothie was delisious!!!
oh, the accupunctuarist told me I have an allergy with Noni. No wonder my skin has been irritated everytime I ate Noni... He said he can cure the allergy though. His treatment is too good to be true. No pain, and no stinky tea needs to be taken!

lunch boxes for my weekend's trip to hot spring

Here are pictures of what I have packed for my last weekend trip to El Tucano (Hot spring resort hotel in Ciudad Quesad, San Carlos). They were yummy but after 8 hours of a bus trip, they were spoiled as I forgot to put some ice...straight to garbage :( At least I enjoyed preparing and tasting them :)
Ingredients:
1. chick pea filling: same as "worm wrapping" post.
2. Beet salad: beet, apple, carrot, pineapple, raisin, salt, lemon