Costa Rican Typical Food

By Karen

In Costa Rica we have a lot food that visitors and native can enjoy. There are natural condiments that are used in all kind of food like cauliflower,onion,chile, and some vegetables that are traditionally from the area such as Camote, Chayote, yucca and guineo. Our food is not only delicious but easy to make. In a different parTs of the country people usually eat the same kind of food, but each province has their own typical food like in Limon or Guanacaste.

Some kinds of food are:

For lunch:
-Casado: ” (married) named like that because it is what Costa Rica wives packed for lunch for their husbands when they were the only ones that worked in the family in the early years. “Casado” is a combo of rice and beans supplemented with cabbage-and-tomato salad, fried plantains, and the meat of the day: chicken, fish or beef, sometimes it may even include a fried egg or fried yucca on the side.
-Olla de Carne: A beef soup full of potatoes, chayote, pumpkins and cauliflower.
-Arroz con pollo: ), ensalada rusa (beetroot slices in mayonnaise) and ground beans with potato chips.
The traditional drinks for lunch are called refrescos or frescos for short, and consist of liquefied fruits diluted in either water or milk and sweetened to taste. They come in many varieties such as melon, blackberry, strawberry, watermelon, mango, tamarind, passion fruit, guanabana and cas.


For breakfast:

- Gallo pinto: pinto' which is rice and beans mixed together with Lizano sauce and cooked in a frying pan. Normally is served with scramble egg and onion, this known as “ pinto con huevo “.
-Chorreadas: (corn pancakes) home bread dipped in sour cream.
-TORTILLAS CASERAS (HOME – MADE TORTILLAS).


In Costa Rica it is also normal to have fruit salad or just cereal, usually cornflakes with banana slices for breakfast.
The traditional breakfast drink, besides coffee, is called agua dulce ("sweet water") and is made from tapa de dulce.
For Desserts:
-Arroz con Leche: This is a dessert made of rice cooked with milk, sugar, cinnamon, condensed milk and raisins.

-MIEL DE AYOTE (honey made with 'ayote'):Dried and grated ayote cooked with 'dulce de tapa'.
-Miel de Coco(honey made with coconut):Grated coconut cooked with 'dulce de tapa'.

-Biscocho
These are bread rolls baked with corn, cheese, sour cream and salt.

Tamal Asado
This is a tamal made with corn, cheese, sugar and sour cream. It is pan-cooked first and then baked.
In certain season of the year are food that also enjoined like

For Christmas:

The tamales:
These are made of a corn flour dough and stuffed with rice, carrot, fine beans and beef, pork or chicken, wrapped in banana leaves. The flavor is absolutely delicious.


Something really important is that making and cooking tamales is generally an activity which involves the participation of all family members. They are eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner and they are absolutely fundamental for coffee break time.

For Holy week: In this season( week) people cannot eat red meat. They prepare many dishes with fish like fish soup, dry fish soup, rice with fish, codfish soup and others.

Costa Rica has really delicious dishes, the main characteristic is that almost all are cooked with natural species that provided a typical taste from all country.

Importat Links

www.universidadlatina.blogspot.com
www.difusion.com.mx/ulatina/
www.onestopenglish.com
www.mep.go.cr

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Multiple Intelligences
By Karen Rojas

This topic is polemic, because for many years people think that children that always do things l are children with attention deficit disorder, and recently studies reflects the contrary, they can have multiple intelligence.
Usually in schools the teachers use the same boring textbooks and never improvise, they do not think that all the children are different and do not learn in the same way. Teach in the old same way.
The theory of multiple intelligences was developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University. It suggests that the traditional notion of intelligence is so far too limited. Instead, Dr. Gardner proposes eight different intelligences to account for a broader range of human potential in children and adults. These intelligences are:
1-Linguistic intelligence-( word smart): Involves reading, writing, speaking, and conversing, in one's own or foreign languages.
2-Logical-mathematical intelligence-(number/ reasoning smart): Involves number and computing skills, and solve different kind of problems by logic.
3-Spatial intelligence- (picture smart). Involves the ability to create and manipulate mental images.
4-Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence-(body smart): Involves physical coordination and dexterity.
5-musical intelligence – (music smart): Involves understanding and expressing through music, or dance, or composing, playing, or conducting music.
6-interpersonal intelligence- (people smart): Involves how to communicate with other people and how to work and collaborate.
7-intrapersonal intelligence- (self smart): Involves the ability of control their emotions and thoughts and work with them.
8- Naturalist intelligence- (nature smart):Involves the ability of interactive with animals and plants.
The theory of multiple intelligences proposes a major transformation in our schools; It suggests that teachers be trained to present their lessons in a wide variety of ways using music, cooperative learning, art activities, role play, multimedia, field trips, and much more.
Unfortunately, many children who have these gifts don’t receive much help. Child has not the opportunity to learn in different ways with their unique minds.
For that reason the parents have the responsibility with children they must stimulating with toys, games, books and a comfortable environment when they are babies to find their abilities and weaknesses and reinforce it.