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.

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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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