By far, our favorite dish in South Africa was bobotie. I equated it to a shepherd’s pie with an eggy topping instead of mashed potatoes. For the holidays, we decided to make bobotie for our families. My sister-in-law is vegetarian so a traditional bobotie recipe wouldn’t work for her. My husband found the recipe below for a vegetarian version of this dish and it is delicious! Thank you to the original poster of this recipe.

We stopped in a little town north of Reykjavik called Borgarnes. It was a weird little place with a little saga museum. We walked through the saga museum and found a little restaurant at the end. Feeling hungry, we decided to have some lunch. It had some of the best food we had in Iceland. My husband had mashed fish that was new to us (but good!) so we decided to share a mashed fish recipe.

Gallo pinto is a simple breakfast recipe from Costa Rica based on leftovers from the night before. It’s a simple black bean and rice recipe but it’s ever so tasty. I highly recommend adding a fried egg and/or breakfast sausage to this for an extra tasty breakfast. Thank you to the original poster for this recipe.