So yesterday I was bored with my usual cooking but feeling too poor to go out, and decided to try my hand at General Tso’s chicken. I kind of winged it, with what I figured was in it usually. We don’t need to go into details, but it was a less then overwhelming success. A C- effort at best, a bit on the bland side, and the flavors just didn’t meld. But it’s not really important, I could look up 1000 recipes on the web if I wanted to make it again.
But like Tso’s, in general I love every Hunan based dish I have ever had at a Chinese restaurant. But unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be very popular, other than a dish or two at Schezwan places. I Iwould love to check out the original dishes. Does anyone have experience with a Hunan Cookbook they would recommend? Or As it going to be frustrating experience of having to hunt down 15 bottles of this and that for each authentic-ish dish I want to try?