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| Christmas Morning Breakfast View |
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| My tamales came from La Coope Supermercado, 2 to a package, 2 meals. |
Here’s a recipe for making Costa Rica Christmas Tamales. (Mine didn’t have as many vegetables.)
And to watch them being made, see this YouTube video of a family making them.
I’m sure the homemade ones are better than the ones I got at the Supermercado, but to be honest, I did not care for them. Mine had very few veggies and only a small piece of pork. The cornmeal and lard wrapping is what I don’t like.To much fat and cholesterol and not that tasty. I had to add sauce. These tamales are not part of my tradition unless I find better tasting ones! And maybe a healthier version?
And some more local Christmas decorations:
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| Maybe typical of governments, but the city hall had one of the few secular Christmas decoration in town plus their decorated tree in the park. This is a very contemporary tree with reindeer of all things! The “Municipal Building” is opposite one corner of Central Park. |
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| And the Catholic Church in center of town had this indoor nativity and an outdoor one with live people at certain times which I never caught. More homes have nativities. Jesus is more popular than Santa here! My nativity collection went fast at the silent auction earlier. |
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| Christmas Dinner with neighbors at Hotel Colinas del Sol nearby. |
There is never an excuse for being lonely here! In fact, I sometimes have to work at finding my needed solitude! 🙂
FELIZ NAVIDAD
from Charlie in Costa Rica
