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Tico: a colloquial term for a Costa Rican native


Fusion cuisine: a combination of various forms of cookery… different cuisines of a region into a single eating experience… dishes alongside one another and offering dishes that are inspired combinations …quality and creativity …a more eclectic approach, featuring original dishes using varieties of ingredients from various cuisines and regions and combining them…dishes inspired by a combination of various regional cuisines with new ideas…a form based on one cuisine, but prepared using ingredients and flavors inherent to another cuisine or cuisines.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

WEEKLY PLAN: Almost Vegetarian, no red meat

DAY 1: SATURDAY
Breakfast - TicoFUSION porridge, papaya, hard boiled egg, papa fria
Lunch - Tamarind Eggplant over spinach
Dinner - Dijon-Tarragon cream Chicken, Saffron rice with mushrooms

TUESDAY
Dinner - Sinigang (Filipino-inspired Tamarind soup) w/ fish & various veggies

WEDNESDAY

Dinner - BBQ chicken at our neighbor & I brought Tostada baked with white tipico cheese & tomato/basil & salad/basil w/ balsamic vinegarette dressing

THURSDAY
Dinner - Tamarind chicken, garlic chayote stir fry, rice

RECIPE for SAUCE: Tamarindo Eggplant for Spinach saladETC

The Tamarindo sauce can be used for grilled eggplants and other veggies TBE (To Be Experimented)

Slice 1 inch eggplant
Grill
Then cut up.

Tamarindo sauce:
- In butter, saute diced 1/2 yellow onion & 2 garlic clove
- equal parts tamarindo juice concentrate and vinegar.

  • For 1 eggplant, use 1/3 cup each.
  • It not using tamarindo juice concentrat, then you can use balsamic to add sweetnes
- Boil, then add eggplant
- Simmer to reduce

Serving suggestions:

  • Over spinach salad slightly stir fried with olive oil
  • With fried pork chop

Sunday, January 1, 2012

MEAL: New Year 2012! Brunch

After sleeping in, and a cup of the TicoFUSION very special coffee blend, drink a Pipa very Fria (refrigerated overnight) to assist with the dehydration from the New Year's Eve Champagne.

Breakfast Burrito: on a flour tortilla

  • Brown rice and black beans mixed together with the black bean juice
  • Scrambled eggs with queso blanco tipico (or I would rather use cheddar cheese)
  • Salsa, Santa Cruz Chunky Medio
Pastry from Musanni, and the rest of that TicoFUSION very special coffee blend

Rest for a bit and have the Coconut Sherbet created day before, and now frozen ready to be blended.