Archive for April, 2009

wasabi chicken burgers

Across the street from my office is a little coffee shop called the Wired Bean, which serves a wicked chicken burger with wasabi mayonnaise. I’ve made my version a couple of times now, with varying degrees of success with the wasabi mayo. It’s completely simple to make wasabi mayo (wasabi powder + mayonnaise = wasabi [...]

Posted on April 27, 2009 at 4:59 pm by purplelara · Permalink · 2 Comments
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changing things up

As most people know, I started this blog as a travel blog for my trip to India and Thailand about 2.5 years ago.  Then I used it to document the reno of my condo about 2 years ago.  And then it kinda sat here.  I’d love to update more, but I don’t seem to think [...]

Posted on April 26, 2009 at 11:35 pm by purplelara · Permalink · One Comment
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pork with quinoa and black bean salad

We eat a lot of chicken.  A lot.  Last week I felt the hankerin’ for something different and decided on pork chops, but wasn’t interested in putting too much effort into them.  So I threw them in a baggie with some lemon juice, garlic and honey.  Marinated the suckers for an hour or so and [...]

Posted on April 26, 2009 at 7:26 pm by purplelara · Permalink · One Comment
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