Super Healthy Nachos
Mexican day! Today I hear a calling from our neighboring Central American country, Mexico! Honoring Costa Rica’s favorite, frijoles I will make a beautiful tomato and black bean salsa. The frijoles are grown, harvested and hand shelled here at the farm, and we have also just started to produce the first tomatoes, small yellow and […]
Cashew Cheese
Cashew Cheese At Anamaya I felt personally taken care of as a lactose-free eater, as they don’t serve of cook with dairy products at all, aside from optional butter they put out for the daily delicious selection of healthy baked goods. All cheese products at the resort are goat’s so free range for me! Aside […]
Sweet Potato Chick Pea Burgers with Passion Fruit salsa
Sweet Potato Chick Pea Burgers with Passion Fruit salsa This was everyone’s favorite farm concoction as of yet! I served the burgers with 2 types of salsa making use of the passion fruits that we collect from the grass inside ‘The Passion Dome’. I personally find this space to be a hub, encapsulating the […]
Farm Thai ‘Fruit and Veg’ Curry
I think what has subconsciously prompted my exploration into Thai cuisine whilst in Costa Rica, as well as the typically Thai green papayas, is the coconut milk I enjoy in my coffee at Anamaya after yoga in the mornings. It reminds me of travelling I have done in Thailand when I lived off of green, […]
Savory Flaxseed Crackers
One of the future projects on the list for volunteers at the ranch is to design and build a solar dehydrator for drying herbs, seeds, and tasty snacks like these Savory Flaxseed Crackers. In the meantime, we’re using an Excalibur electric dehydrator borrowed from Anamaya. Ingredients 2 cups whole raw flaxseed 3 cups water 1 […]
Goat Milk
Before I came to Rancho Delicioso, my boyfriend Roland and I had begun to experiment with making our own dairy products…yogurt, feta, and cream cheese. While they were great tasting, without a cow or a goat, they were actually far more expensive than to just buy the item at the store. But now I have […]
Tarta de Coliflor y Queso
Here at Rancho Delicioso, the volunteers take turns preparing lunch for each other on workdays. When my turn came up in the rotation this week, I decided to try to recreate a favorite of mine from an internship that I did on another farm in Costa Rica last year – Cauliflower Cheese Pie, or Tarta […]
Duffy’s Summer Zucchini Soup
Our beautiful giant zucchinis in the experimental section of the garden called to mind this refreshing soup that my dad used to make (hint hint!) in the summertime. I discovered the original recipe belonged to Mickey, my mother’s stepmother. One of the few things I remember about Mickey was her commitment to healthy cooking and […]
Papaya Seeds: DIY Black Pepper
Papaya: low in calories, high in dietary fiber. Packed with vitamins and anti-inflammatory enzymes. Growing on the farm. Extra tasty with a squeeze of lime. Also nice unripe, shredded, in curries. Que bueno. But wait! Don’t forget the seeds: high in (“good”) fat and protein and a good source of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus. (Source: […]
Jazzy Farm Pilaf
Alas, tonight a hankering for brown rice met a compulsion to take advantage of the farm in my backyard. I went out with a basket and came back with some yellow pear tomatoes, kale, pepper, parsley and basil. So I decided to add them to the rice in a pilaf-y sort of way, then […]
