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Wasabi and Panko-Crusted Pork with Gingered Soy Sauce
Source: Cooking Light, March 2006

2/3 C panko
1 large egg white, lightly beaten
4 (4oz) boneless center cut loin pork chops (1/2 inch thick)
1 tsp peanut oil
cooking spray
1/8 tsp salt (I omitted)
1 T bottled ground fresh ginger
1/3 C fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
2 T sake or dry sherry
2 T low-sodium soy sauce
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp wasabi paste
1/3 C thinly sliced green onions
-Place panko in a shallow dish. Place egg white in another shallow dish. Dip pork in egg white; dredge in panko.
-Heat peanut oil in a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium/high heat; add pork. Cook for 4 minutes on each side or until done. Remove pork from pan; sprinkle with salt.
-Reduce heat to medium. Add ginger to pan; cook 30 seconds, stirring constantly. Combine broth and the next 4 ingredients (through wasabi) in a small bowl, stirring well with a whisk. Add broth mixture to pan, scraping pan to loosen browned bits. Stir in green onions. Spoon sauce over pork.
-Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 pork chop and about 1 T sauce)
CALORIES 215 (28% from fat); FAT 6.8g (sat 2.1g,mono 2.9g, poly 0.8g); PROTEIN 24.5g; CHOLESTEROL 65mg; CALCIUM 15mg; SODIUM 454mg; FIBER 0.9g; IRON 1.1mg; CARBOHYDRATE 10.8

My own query led me to this explanation.

For all of you waiting with bated breath, we did NOT ride in the Tour de Lopez this weekend. As pheeps71 pointed out, the registration was, in fact, full. If nothing else, at least it made our decision easier!! I suppose we cant expect anything different if we wait until the last minute. So we ended up at home for the weekend slightly unexpectedly. After MUCH deliberation (see previous post re: our commitment issues), we decided to go for a trail run on Saturday.

Wanting to try something new, we headed to Tiger Mountain (west side) to run the Tiger 3-summit loop. Its a 10+ mile run and unfortunately, we got a bit lost at the beginning. We only made it to one of the 3 summits. And it was killer. Our trail-running book lists it as a 3 out of 5 on the pain scale. Man, it was steep. But we ended up with an hour and 50 minute run. If you can call it a run. We walked the vast majority of the way up and ran down.

We were in agreement. It was a little too steep to be enjoyable. Luckily, were not too sore today. Though I think we are starting to realize what we want in a trail run. This wasnt really it.

On the plus side: we got in a nice morning run before the torrential rain set in for the rest of the day. We also met up with our friend Rachel for lunch, while we were on the East side. Down sides: the brutal climb and getting rear-ended on the way home. I guess it all balances out in the end.