Unexpected Lunch Guest - Food Fight Friday - Round 32
I didn’t have a contender for this food fight about an hour ago when Pura Vida and I took off to the lavanderia to do our laundry. We waited outside the laundry joint for about 20 minutes for someone to open the door. Around here, just because the sign says Abierto, doesn’t mean they’re open. We waited...
A few doors down from the lavanderia was a sandwich shop, the chalkboard menu’s were in English and the three young people working inside all spoke English. That’s significant—I’ll explain. Ordering food in Costa Rica is super challenging when your wife doesn’t eat butter or sugar of any kind, neither of you speak the language well and all of the menus are in Spanish. That wasn’t the case at this sandwich joint so we decided to grab something and wait outside for the lavanderia attendant. @puravidaville ordered a green juice and I ordered The V Sandwich without goat cheese. We waited...
The V without goat cheese: Red and yellow onions, eggplant, tomatoes, mushrooms, a couple of different bell peppers, and a pesto aioli garlic spread on toasted flat bread. It came with a side potato salad but our unexpected lunch guest didn’t care for it. We waited...
I didn’t anticipate this contender lasting much longer than the cover image, @puravidaville and I actually need to get our laundry done and we planned on doing laundry first, food fight second but there we go again—thinking like Westerners. See the potato salad on the plate? Well, I wasn’t too interested in it and that’s about the time this dude showed.... wait—not yet! I’ll introduce you to our unexpected lunch guest after I show you the menu—in English. The sandwich is The V—I got it without goat cheese and instead of balsamic cream I got a pesto aioli garlic spread that was really good. We waited...
So, I didn’t really care for the potatoes and that was about the time this dude showed up—our unexpected lunch guest: We waited...
He had on a red necklace but no name tag so for the sake of this article, we’ll just call him by his initials—ULG (Unexpected Lunch Guest). I gave Ulg some potatoes and he licked all of the green, seasoned stuff off of them but left the potatoes on the walkway—I cleaned up Ulg’s mess before we left. We waited...
I didn’t want to leave Ulg hungry so I tore some of the flat bread into little dog bites and fed it to him. Ulg wasn’t too fond of the potatoes but, the bread, that was a different story. Ulg loved that oiled soaked, toasted flat bread. We waited...
The lavanderia attendant never showed up and Pura Vida’s stomach wasn’t enjoying waiting any longer on only a green smoothie. We decided to go back to the apartment so she could whip up something for herself to eat and we’ll try for laundry another day. Ulg didn’t really care about Pura Vida’s appetite or the lavanderia attendant, he ate his bread and laid down on the walkway I just cleaned for him. We waited...
“Hey, Ulg... seeing how you’re the star of this Food Fight Friday contender, could you at least clean the bread out of your teeth and maybe give a nice smile to the camera?”.... “Good boy, Ulg.”we’ll try again tomorrow...
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Oishh 😍 I love dogs but, unfortunately, mine lives in another city, very far away. You don't know how lucky you're for being able to have it by your side! Take care of it 🥰 oh, and the sandwichs... No words!
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There’s so many street dogs here in Costa Rica, they’re all community dogs, it seems, they just come and go as they please. Any time one of them catches me eating, I’m happy to share my meal with them. iheart dogs—“guilty!”
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@dandays, that was so sweet of you to share your lunch with the little dog.
Your V sandwich is giving me ideas for fixing a little something for my hubby. I will have to work on it. Thanks
Well good evening, chef! Happy Sunday, how was your weekend? I bet it’s cold-cold-cold in Georgia.
iheart dogs—“guilty!” I know what’s it like to be married to a 5⭐️ chef, chef. 😉 Your husband gets the best veggie sandwiches around right there at the house.
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😂😂😂😂 Ulg is so cute 😉 if a dog love the bread, can we conclude that the sandwich is quiet delicious😉
I never seen any cats or dogs which love to eat potato, salad or chips.. have you ever seen one? But I read somewhere a dog eat all your pizza at @puravidaville's parent house before
Hey, buenos dias chef—hola! Gracias for dropping a line. Yeah, I guess Ulg is like the dogs you’re saying and doesn’t like potato salad—he didn’t want anything to do with it! The sandwich was delicious actually, the sandwich joint itself is conveniently located near us, too, it’s nice to find local spots with menus we can read. 😉
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😂😂 so you are saying that sandwich is the only menu you found there that you understabnd what put in it and what to eat😂😂😂 that's really a cool funtastic food fight.. no wonder if your beautiful 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 chef should bring everything from her kitchen in the backpack😉
No, no.. we can read any menu here, we just have to have our phones in our hand so we can translate. Ha! And when the people behind you are beginning to line up, it’s nice to not have to translate. But we’re learning, I’m convinced that, by this time next year, we’ll be blending in a little better.
But the Pura Vida part, yeah! Regardless what location we’re in, her kitchen wizardry is always superb.
Couldn't agree more about your beautiful 5 stars chef😍 she made me 😱😲😨 whenever she posted her magic strands in the kitchen!
I guess you were not expecting the dude to show up but the dude showed up unexpected
Hola! Good morning! You’re right, Ulg showed up without warning but once he was there, he was welcome. I saw this article you released the other day, very nice! Congratulations on the reward, sir.
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Dude you guys need that dog, lol. ULG seems so fitting.
I wouldn’t take one with me because there’s a lot of street dogs here, they’re just like community dogs and everyone is cool with them—some have a home, some call a lot of places him. Everyone feeds them, it’s cool! But as soon as we’re in a house that we call ours, the gate is always open.
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When yall get settled, my gut says, dog. 😁👍🏿
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This little one really enjoyed that delicious bread
Hello, chef! Happy Friday. Yeah, that little dog loved every bite of it.
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Happy Friday friend
So did you gain a travel buddy out of this? LOL I can totally see you driving, leaned back in your seat, dre3adlocks flowin' and ULG in your lap tongue flappin' in the out the window.
You guys always have me sitting here with a grin on my face everytime I read about your little mini adventures. I mean how hard could it be do to some laundry...right?!?!
Happy FFF
Oh dude! And before we even left the house, I think my words to Pura Vida was “well... let’s see where this gets us.” And I think her response was “plan on spending the whole day trying to do it.”
Because it actually took us 3 days to even find the joint, then come to finding out, the phone number on the outside of the window is the same phone number to our Air BnB host who does not answer the phone—not even sure why they gave us a phone number, we knew we were in for an adventure.
Man, if anyone stays in this complex we’re in now and isn’t familiar with Costa Rica, they’d be totally screwed! No locks on the door, no hot water, no oven mitts, Pura Vida didn’t even have a cookie sheet or casserole dish or anything—we had to buy one. Not even a hand towel in the joint. Confusing as heck directions to the laundry where once you get there, you just wait... and wait... and wait... and wait... Eh, but you know what this joint does have?? Air conditioning and a pool that welcomes the sunrise every.single.day. 👍🏿
“Costa Rica time.”
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very cute with the dog, I like dogs that are very smart, I think this dog can read the surroundings
That’s a pretty detailed observation! I can’t say that I picked up on that one.
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cute pup...Costa Rica looks beautiful, we just got back from our Florida trip, awesome...some beautiful skies there and nice warm weather
Well this sure is a pleasant surprise. It’s nice to know the sweeds are back—Robin, right? You haven’t missed anything, welcome back. The picture from the boat is gorgeous!
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Hey there, yup we're baaaccckk!! If we didn't miss the grandkids so much we would probably still be out. Came home to our lovenest STILL covered in snow...so glad our boots were right by the door. Hope you are well and enjoying your new home.