chow in cahuita
Monday, December 24th, 2007Alby lodge had a community kitchen that I took advantage of some but I had yummy pizza my last night at corlione’s before i hit the sack. Overall, cahuita is ok. It’s a bit dusty despite it’s locale and I just didn’t get a warm fuzzy. I decided to spend time there because puerto viejo sounded like too much of a party town, which it may be, I will tell you later ☺. I will say that eating at miss edith’s is a must. Here i had a Sunday breakfast of coffee and fruit drizzled with a bit of fragrant honey. I believe miss edith and I were the only ones up at 7:00am ☺ She’s your only shot at anything at that hour on Sunday. But better than that was the lovely lookout to the sea and I saw plenty of new birds while I waited. She told me about the snapper special for the night (it would be marinating while she went to Sunday service, which must start after her breakfast hour) and I vowed to go back. Boy was I glad I went back! Whole snapper cooked carib-style in spices with ache. I asked what was scattered around the plate and was told “ache”, which I will look up when I have internet access. It was tasty but looked like little, tiny, whole, yellow brains. When I asked for clarification she used some words that I won’t trouble you with here but that didn’t make the origins completely clear. Anyhoo….
I caught the 9:00 bus to puerto viejo where I planned to do a little grocery shopping before I made my way to my destination in punta uva: supposedly the best swimming beach in costa rica with the added benefit of being very secluded. Go figure! The groceries were to compensate for the lack of restaurants within walking distance.
Peggy Rehm