Notes about Recipes in this book

• Gong bao chicken with peanuts

  • ashallen on July 20, 2021

    Loaded with wonderful, intense flavors - loved it and will definitely make it again! I don't handle chili-heat very well, so I used 3 chili de arbol (seeds removed, but not ribs) versus the handful of dried chilies specified in the recipe. Despite that cutback and my not-super-fresh Sichuan peppercorns, the dish was still at the edge of being too hot for me! Still very delicious, though, and the sugar in the sauce helps balance the heat.

• A hearty pie of chicken and leeks

  • chawkins on November 14, 2019

    This was delicious and quite easy. My sheet of puff pastry was only 8 oz, so my pie was not as big as his. I also skipped the chicken breasts and used only chicken thighs, 3 boneless and skinless thighs which weighed about a pound and the pie was well filled.

  • Livia on June 14, 2020

    Loved the pie but there is an error with the quantity of the pastry and will need double the amount as I only had enough to make a bottomless pie. The recipe does not require you to cool the filling which resulted in the pastry melting before it even hit the oven so would definitely cool the filling next time. Otherwise we loved the pie and was gone pretty quickly.