Delicious beef, potato & cheese combo with salad and fried yuca. A wonderful way to try yuca. Do not omit arepas!
Dominican-style baked steak filet, rice with a rich bean gravy & salad. Dominican beef contains little fat or chemicals so it tends to be a little tough.
Jacob will start the charcoal. We use red peppers and eggplant. Keep an eye out for doneness. Dominicans like their meat very "well-done."
A very good combination of eggplant, peppers, onions and tomatoes served with rice, fried green bananas and salad.
The R. D. version of eggplant parmesan. A favorite of ours. Good with salad!
Shishkabob. We use steak filet for a more tender cut. Salad. Potatoes or rice.
Savory rice with meat and other ingredients wrapped in cabbage leaves and served with a deliciously flavoured bean sauce. Salad.
A pork chop and chicken dish with green salad.
Good Lina-style spaghetti or lasagna with green salad & garlic bread.
Chicken with peanut sauce, rice and salad.
Chicken fried a la R. D. with fried green bananas, rice & salad.
A stew of rice with beans and whatever meat you prefer.
Fresh or smoked pork chops with mashed potatoes and salad.
Sweet and sour pork chops with rice and salad.
Salcocho is the national dish and much beloved. It is a complex tropical stew.
Eat it at Chris and Mady's. It is good and more reasonably priced than you can buy it for yourself on the occasions when it's available. Ask Chris beforehand and have him save you some.
Sea bass in coconut sauce - Samana style.
Chicken fried a la República Dominicana, fried bananas, rice & salad.
There are several good fish stores pescaderías in town and the big supermarkets have fish. Eat it at home or in the better restaurants only. Lina has many wonderful recipes fro preparing your "Catch of the Day". Almejas and ostiones are delicious in season.
Bring home something that you find in your travels and Lina will know what to do with it.
Be sure to ask Lina to get the ingredients for a Batido fruit milkshake!
Breakfast is eggs and ham or bacon, a plate of fruit in season, breads, juice and coffee. Also pancakes, omelettes, and french toast.
At lunch you are on your own. You can buy things to make sandwiches or eat out. Unless you want your big meal served in the middle of the day, in which case Lina will not prepare the evening meal.
Lina may take some time off in the middle of the day. She is entitled to this. Jacob also needs time to relax as he goes home to the duties of his own family (he has a wife and 4 children) during the hours he is not in Cofresi. Sunday all staff has the day off, although your beds will be made and breakfast served. This may be done by a substitute maid, by Lina, or Jacob may cook your breakfast. Staff members work this out among themselves. Sunday is a good day to experiment in the kitchen or plan to eat out.
We hire an extra helper if your group is six or more. It is not necessary to tip the helper.
Updated 17 August 2006