These cookies turned out just plain gross. Tasted like I was just eating raw oatmeal held together by a cooked banana...which I guess I sort of was. Pretty nasty if you ask me. The texture was just weird...oddly chewy. Wouldn't even think of making these again.

the actual recipe on the neiman-marcus website isn't as yummy as the one in the email/hoax forward. i've made that one tons of times, and even modified the email/hoax one to fit my personal taste.

Although this isn't the kind of food I'd expect to find in a Chinese restaurant, it certainly made a quick and delicious dish. I made a few changes to make it much healthier and easy to prepare: first, no deep-frying for me! (which also eliminates the extra work of making the batter) I coated the chicken in a blend of flour, corn starch, salt and pepper, and fried it in an oiled pan. By the way, for a family of 4 I halved the sauce and used only 600 grams of chicken breasts, it was plenty. And as for the sauce, I omitted the food coloring and instead mashed a few frozen cranberries to give the sauce a pretty reddish tint & extra taste. I also added about 2 tsp of cornstarch to the sauce so that it was slightly thick; when the chicken was ready I simply added it to the sauce along with the green pepper, and mixed everything so it was coated evenly. The sauce nicely thickened and was very tasty - so similar to a Hawaiian Chicken recipe I had, but even better. Oh yeah - I also added some soy sauce! Yum!