On Tue 05 May 2009 06:12:02p, Jean B. told us...

> Joseph Littleshoes wrote:??> ??> ??> Joseph Littleshoes
> wrote:??>>??>>??>> sf wrote:??>>??>>> On Mon, 04 May 2009 22:35:10
> -0700, Joseph Littleshoes??>>> > wrote:??>>>??>>>>
> Victor Sack wrote:??>>>>??>>>>> Damsel in dis Dress
> wrote:??>>>>>??>>>>>??>>>>>??>>>>>> Victor Sack
> wrote:??>>>>>>??>>>>>>??>>>>>>??>>>>>>>>>> General
> Tso's Chicken??>>>>>>>>>??>>>>>>>>>??>>>>> Here is how a certain very
> round-eyed person prepares the dish - there??>>>>> is both a recipe and
> a video - at??>>>>>
> <http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/02/fuchsia-dunlop-general-tso-and.html>
> ??>>>>>??>>>>> - as posted a couple of times before.??>>>>>??>>>>>
> Bubba??>>>>??>>>>??>>>> Interesting, i have recently been thinking about
> making an Italian ??>>>> ragu with chicken thighs, this looks like an
> interesting treatment ??>>>> of the thighs.??>>>??>>>??>>>??>>> Have you
> ever seen it on a menu, Joseph? I am looking at a menu from??>>> a
> local Chinese restaurant (this one says Mand arin & Szechuan
> Cuisine)??>>> right now and it's not there. Someone mentioned getting
> it at a??>>> Chinese buffet. If that's the case, I'll never see
> it.??>>>??>>??>> No i had never heard of it either, i cant recall seeing
> it on a menu ??>> here in the bay area but i talked to a friend of mine
> who lives in ??>> NYC last night and he says its common there and as
> noted by previous ??>> posters, varies greatly in quality from
> restaurant to restaurant.??>>??>> On the other hand, i often don't read
> a chinese menu very closely, ??>> often i wouldn't know one dish from
> another by name and so while i ??>> don't recall a mention of it i might
> just not have noticed it. Im ??>> going over to chinatown to day and
> will look at menus.??>> -- ??>> JL??>>??> ??> Ok! 7 of the 10
> restaurants i checked had it on the menu, some had both ??> 'generals
> chicken' and general tso's chicken' some just one or the ??> other. The
> 3 restaurants that did not have it in English on their menus ??> had v
> ery little in English on the menus, and lots, pages and pages in ??>
> Chinese, so, for all i know, they may serve it also.??> ??> With chicken
> thighs at .79¢ per pound in Chinatown i think i will probly ??> try
> making it very soon.??> ??> Tough if some one could recommend a mild
> chili pepper, i just don't know ??> enough about the chili peppers to
> know which is which and i don't want ??> to make it Hunan hot, mildly
> hot is ok but i don't like things too spicy ??> hot.??> ??> To change
> the subject a bit i had stopped ordering lemon chicken in ??> Chinese
> restaurants because it seemed to be too sweet most of the time, ??> i
> had it in L.A. once and it was delightful in a lemon broth with thinly
> ??> sliced lemons but then i went several years unable to find as good a
> ??> version in other restaurants.??> ??> Till a friend ordered it in a
> local Vietnamese restaurant where it was ??> made with lemon grass and
> lemon juice and little to no sugar, not sweet ??> at all, spicy & tart
> but not sweet in a thin lemony broth rather than a ??> thick, syrupy,
> sugary sweet lemon sauce and that without the breading ??> common to
> many of the too sweet version.??> ??> I have found a consistency to it
> in Vietnamese restaurants that ??> encourages me to take a chance on it
> in one i am not familiar with ??> unlike most Chinese restaurants where
> i expect it to be too sweet for me.??> -- ??> JL??> ??> ??Thanks for
> that tip! My daughter always orders lemon chicken at ??one of the
> Chinese restaurants we go to, and I agree that it is ??way too
> sweet.????-- ??Jean B.??
>

What is this Jean?

--
Wayne Boatwright
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Recipe: A series of step ~by ~step instructions for preparing
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