On Wed 06 May 2009 06:31:37a, Jean B. told us...
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> 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/f...p-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?
>>
> Beats me! I didn't look like then when I was typing it up. How odd.
>
Mysteries will never cease. <g>
--
Wayne Boatwright
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