Costa Rica Cost of Living Update: Pineapple — $1.50

Did you ever feel like you missed a left turn in your life? That you went straight when you should have taken the off ramp? If so, I know how you feel. And in memory of that left turn Rob and I took, which resulted in us moving to Costa Rica, I made a delicious pineapple topping for ice cream. It’s been an amazing adventure so far, and I thank all of you for reading and watching it unfold.

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups crushed pineapple

3 tablespoons unsalted butter

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat. Add brown sugar, and stir.  Don’t mix, just stir.
Once this is dissolved, take the 2 1/2 cups of pineapple, and pour into pan.
And you’re just going to stir and coat both sides of pineapple.
Put 1/2 tsp vanilla in.
Cook off a lot of the moisture, until it’s chewy and sticky, and it gets even chewier and stickier when you put it on top of vanilla ice cream.