Have you ever strained your neck enough to make your eyeball twitch by patting yourself on the back too hard? Yeah, neither have I. Counting this contender, I released four articles this week, that’s a record for me. I had every intention of releasing five, it’s all about the rep—mine seems to be stagnant. I even had one ready to go on Wednesday when this happened and I was so humbled by it I chose to bask in my own reflection for a day—hump day’s are good for that. There’s a point to this paragraph, It’s in the next paragraph—my arm hurts.
I was attempting to achieve two things: #1. I wanted to put myself in position to snag one of these custom signatures. I’m not actively looking to counterfeit one or anything either and, #2. I was curious to see if I could attract some #new followers—remember those? Results: I have an appointment tonight with Photoshop, we’re meeting at a speak-easy joint with a secret hand shake and a coded 1-4-3 knock on the dingy basement door. As far as #2, well... I lost one! Hey, you. You, who washed your hands clean of dandays, yeah, you! You missed the dessert round.
Sugar-free, dairy-free, gluten and grain free, black bean & cacao brownies. 1/2 stuffed with Pura Vida made peanut butter and topped with unsalted peanuts—the other half unstuffed and topped with shredded coconut. Eh, what’s up food fighters, happy Friday chefs—what’s up #steemit?! My favorite Friday of the week—it’s nice to be back.
Empty 200 grams of frijoles negros into a strainer and rinse them real good before placing them in a bowl of agua where they’ll soak for about ocho horas. Put your beans and 1/2 cup of cacao plus several other ingredients: coconut oil, a shot of strongly brewed coffee, sea salt, cinnamon and stevia in the food processor for dos minutos. From the food processor, we’ll scrape out all of the black bean and cacao chocolate into the blender and run it through all of the cycles. Continue doing that until you have a nice and silky-smooth chocolate brownie mix. Muy importante right here, eyes forward! You don’t want to do something like forget to take pictures of the chocolate being whipped into shape inside the food processor and then the blender, I mean, could you imagine??
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Pour your frijoles negros chocolate into your cake cups. We added a thin layer of peanut butter about half way through the pour and then topped them off with more chocolate and nuts/coconut. Bake them for 16-18 minutos or until the knife you poked it with comes out clean.
Can’t get one passed you can I? Good eye #steemit—that is a Bitcoin.com sticker placed next to the Visa and MasterCard logo at this Mediterranean joint called Pita Loca:
Just a few blocks down from another joint that actually has “joint” in the name of their restaurant—Taco Joint. And you know how I feel about clocks.
They’re both located in Jaco, a beach town we spent some time at earlier this week, here in Costa Rica, known for its top surfing conditions and nightlife. We went to Pita eh! :time out: you don’t want to ‘repeat,’ you do not want to typo ‘U’ for an ’I’ in Pita—huge difference! :time in: We went to Pita Loca for lunch. You know what they have at Pita Loca? Falafel! I’m a falafel connoisseur for those of you just tuning in, I know what I’m having—a falafel pita and French fries.
We hung out on this pile of boulders at Jaco Beach for a little while, just the two of us, enjoying the views. Before the sun went down, we were joined by an iguana on the next rock over. Pura Vida and I, along with the iguana, enjoyed another sunset.
I have one more picture to show you, it’s called “I saved the best for last.” It’s the same sunset at the exact same time, I just angled my phone slightly. What happened was, a little girl who was probably 10 or 11 years old walked out to the shallow water, just far enough to get her toes wet. She had a tall wooden stick in her left hand and a plastic, navy blue bucket in her right—she’s crab hunting. I snapped this picture because I liked the shadow she was casting. It wasn’t until I looked at it again the following day I realized it was the best one.
Same place next week, deal? Kitchen #fff, you know what it is, I’ve been saying “same place next week, deal?” for 29 weeks. Happy Food Fight Friday #steemit—have a great weekend!
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oh my goodness.....these are legendary! Open the bakery now!! I'm sure they would love you in Costa Rica! Way to go @dandays.... Love the iguana and the sunset, unbelievable! Another day in paradise! :)
Hola! Buenos dias seniora! I’m confident when I say “this time next year, I’ll be pretty fluent in Spanish.” Fingers crossed! Since we are on the open ledger blockchain, I’ll level with you, ready?
First, have you ever spelled level backwards? It’s like race car or civic, only different. here comes the leveling Psst. I haven’t been able to take a bad picture! I’ll prove that right now, hold please, I’ll snap what I’m looking at while typing this response:
Thanks for stopping by @birdsinparadise, it’s a pleasure to see you in the kitchen again!
Howdy sir dandays! Those brownies..did you guys invent those? I've never heard of such a thing but would love to try them, my gosh they look amazing. Taco Joint! lol..and the pita place takes bitcoin! wow. I don't even know how you would pay with bitcoin, I need to get educated.
The beach scenes and photos..wow, tremendous sir dandays, just perfect!
I’m back again! This was nice, Janton, stopping by three responses in a row. 👍🏿
You know, most of the dishes I’ll write about are that way, they’re new to us too. Pura Vida is on such a restrictive diet right now she’s experimenting with alternate avenues of cooking. No sugar, as in, none! Since November!! Crazy, huh? I’ve never considered such a thing and seeing it with my own eyes, it’s extremely challenging.
The photos, I gotta level with you, Janton.. psst It’s tough to take a bad one! That shot of the little girl, though. That’s a pat on the back picture.
The bitcoin sticker was just a sticker, someone put it there, they don’t actually accept Bitcoin—yet! Man, I’m telling you, if the car dealer accosted Bitcoin, that would’ve been great!! But.. Are you saying you don’t have any wallets other than this one? Are you not into cryptocurrency at all? Trading goods for Bitcoin is simple, you don’t even have a coinbase wallet or BitPay, none? At least that’s what I’m assuming. So, why don’t you?
Thanks for stopping by @janton.
Howdy sir dandays! that is very interesting about that diet with no sugar, I salute her! Is it just the white, refined sugar that she is avoiding?
Those restaurants look great and the prices are good too right?
About a crypto wallet..I have an account with Coinbase but haven't used them since they stopped taking credit cards. In real estate we had several companies use the ACH system with our bank so we figured we'd do that. So we got a separate account set up, I went on Coinbase but instead of just getting our account number and the name of our bank they wanted the login details of our main account. So we're like..no way.
Another guy told me that he uses ACH with Coin base but he only had to give them his account number. So does that make sense? Any suggestions? Mrs. J hates wire transfers, that's why we decided to set up an account for the ACH method.
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Ill take a taco joint, munch on some deserts, head on over to the beach and Injoy the views.
Verdy nice my friend.
Edit: I had to revisit this one and that lizard, dang.
I’m glad you did revisit cuz I just skimmed over our conversation and I didn’t even Upvote your comment. That was an accident! Eh, iguanas here, I’m not exaggerating, they’re like squirrels in California—frikkin everywhere! Even road kill, iguanas, everywhere. The first place we stayed at while we were here there was 2 iguanas fighting for the territory on the roof. The iguana that list literally got shoved off of the roof! It was awesome!
Thanks brother. Those iguanas take over. Sounds like a rad fight 😡😜. I heard they're quite tasty,tehe. We have many about an hour south of me. Happy Sunday bro
Happy Sunday!
Tasty?! Say what?? Probably the same people who eat cats and dogs bro, I’d steer clear of them. Dogs are good protection and excellent companionship in my opinion and, although I’m not a fan of cats, they’re great for mice control. I still wouldn’t eat’em.
See, they warm you up by grilling highly intelligent household pets and next they’re frying up some iguana. Keep your guard up when they try to talk you into eating animals with more intelligence than dogs like a pig or a bird or something. 😉
Everyday I live, something must die.
I disagree.
What do you disagree with? My analogy of ingesting animals or something must die in order for you to live?
Good morning, weird!
Good Morning @dandays!
The analogy. Its to early, i dont have my big boy typing pants on...
Hey @dandays :)
I wanted to revisit this one as well.
First off i massively appreciate you and @puravidaville! You two have been a light in my world.
So to my opinion...
The number of cats and dogs that get euthanized could feed the world. They probably dont taste half bad smh lol.
In a native American mindset, some buddhism, and a dash of science, we are what we eat. If i am going to eat an animal id prefer it to be happy and intelligent.
I am against the barbaric practices of modern day farming. I am also pro protein & fat as they are essential nutrients and carbs are not.
I am also fully aware you can thrive on veganism as the shaolin munks do (who are super badass and live upwards towards the 100's). Although there are some nutrients that can be lacking.
I think the wild iguanas around here are very nutrient dense and from what ive "seen" quite tasty.
Dont cill me...
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If you find posts worthy of a nasty Splatin’ feel free and mention @splatz in your reply to their post. Call me out!!
You’re too good to me @splatz! Thank you for all you do for this community.
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Food Fight Friday
May your contender survive and not be placed in a permanent food coma!
The “Taco Joint” sign cracks me up. Wait...that is a Zig-Zag package. Dah ha ha ha
Happy Food Fight Friday Pal!! Well even though it is Saturday now and I am slacking a bit on the winners post. @Poopalottaville won....again. Good grief she is on a roll!!
All those photos and that dessert look amazing!!! Yes that last picture definitely is the best. Thanks for always being here on Food Fight Friday bringing your
AF game.That last pictures awesome huh? Eh. I photoshopped it and did a Pura Vida! across it but it didn’t work. The picture was just too perfect. I’m still a big fan of it.
I’m glad she won bro, she’s been getting pretty discouraged lately and actually wasn’t even going to do a food fight. It took awhile and I was like “don’t stop this one! What the heck did this group do to you?” Add the flags and yata yata. If you check out the YouTube clips she linked in her new one and watch them all the way through, she definitely spilled the beans.
And my pleasure bringing my F game, thanks for the curation trail, delegations to my alts, fff winners announcement, fff acknowledgement, oh!! Competing in fff every week, trailing curie, c-squared, c-cubed, actifit and whoever else you’re trailing and everything else I didn’t list. 👍🏿
Dude I get discouraged too so she isn’t alone. Seeing just pennies for hours of effort and then running across a photo and a sentence getting $20. That is a big part of why I started the @splatz, when I see people putting forth a good amount of effort they get splatted. I hoping to see people calling out the @splatz account sometimes. I’m going to start doing it with my main account.
fact: Its common to find comments nowadays worth more than the posts they’re commenting on.
fact: My wallet has been on a steady two year decline.
fact: My record number of downvotes on one post is 7.
I’m grateful for the good people I’ve befriended here, you’re obviously on that list and it’s a frikkin good thing there’s still a few good curation trails left because those three things I just mentioned, c’mon, just because they can be used as fuel doesn’t make them motivating.
I’ll remember to call out Splatz more often, in fact, I just turned it into a new thing! Thanks for following my lead—don’t leave me hangin!
When I see the mention come in from steemify I will get to it ASAP.
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The picture of the girl in the surf is worthy of being entered in some kind of contest. It's like when you spend hours preparing a gourmet meal and an unsuspecting ear of corn steals the show. It' that good!
I’m glad you think so vicci, it’s not just me then. I was just telling Splatts how I photoshopped it to say ”Pura Vida” across the top but I erased it. Natural was the only way to go with that one.
Thanks for stopping by @carklevicci, these random appearances from you on Steemit are fantastic!
Awesome post babe! I think we should go back and spend a weekend in Manuel Antonio and maybe a night in Jaco. I want to experience the night life there, being that we are such party animals. Haha… love the pic of the sunset casting over that little girl with her stick. Another great triple F from the king of word spinning. Muah, luv you.
I’ll never forget the time you called me a wordsmith, one of the best compliments I’ve ever received. I sure am glad you think so!
Thank you for always being my biggest fan and supporting everything I get us out of. You tell me when my posts suck, too, on #steemit so when you tell me...
Thank you, beautifullest! iheartu all the time @puravidaville. Have you checked out your contender lately? Way to spill the beans, chef!
Haha… way to call me out babe. I love you and you do get us out of quite a few things. Good job my knight. Muah
You always make me giggle, tehe...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BXx62-1TVKw
Oh—woah! Hold the phone. I just told you over here about the comment that’s cool enough to frame. But did you just bust out gin & juice in espanol?! You completely one-upped yourself, chef!
Thanks for stopping by @weirdheadaches. Thank you for always resteeming my contenders, weird, mucho aprecio, Senor!
I blasted that one @dandays! My Spanish neighbors Loved it 😜
I love everything about this post except for the peanuts! Sacrilege. Coconut, yes. Peanuts no!
The iguana and the lovely water make up for it though :)
I’m glad you liked it—minus the peanuts! I’m chomping on a handful of them as I write this response actually. Yum, yum, yum. 😉
Thanks for stopping by @fitinfunfood!
Hey I’m connecting to you. We had this crazy ass snowstorm and just now getting power back. Looks like a grand life your making for yourself
It sure is nice to hear from you chef.