Topic: LIDL curry bargains

[jamieb728]

well i don't have anything against people buying ready meal curries but its not for me i just think they are bland to be honest i dint really buy anything ready made anymore i make it myself i.e. pizza, chili con carne ,spag bol i just find it better knowing whats in my food the amount of salt and colouring and preservatives etc.
But the thing that gets me most is when people say i cooked a curry last night and they take a jar of sauce and just add meat now that's not cooking is it? :

[Secret Santa]

But the thing that gets me most is when people say i cooked a curry last night and they take a jar of sauce and just add meat now that's not cooking is it? :

True, and I bet there's loads of members who would scoff at getting a pre prepared supermarket meal (curry) and yet have no problem about dolloping loads of Pataks pastes into their curries.

It amounts to the same thing to me!

[George]

I've tried quite a few of the bottled curry sauces (various brands) and I haven't yet found one I like enough to buy again. For me, chilled food is the only delivery method which seems to present reasonable flavours.

[string28]

well pastes are made up of spice mixes! supermarket curries are made up of.........Well lots of stuff you wouldnt want in a curry put it this way.
So each to their own i guess. ;D

[jamieb728]

your right santa about pataks funny thing is i had to go and cut a pizza and burger restraunt electric off the other day and you should have seen the amount of catering size jars of pataks they had in there i had a little smile to myself

[string28]

Well as i said each to their own. A lot would say the pastes can be usefull too.
Thats if they are used in the right way.  :

[Secret Santa]

I've tried quite a few of the bottled curry sauces (various brands) and I haven't yet found one I like enough to buy again.

I'm not ashamed (well maybe a bit) to admit that I still occasionally have legs of chicken cooked in Pataks vindaloo sauce with chips and rice. It's the way my mum used to make it for me and I still like it now and again. I put loads of vinegar on the chips and I just love the mix of chicken curry, chips, and rice all in one mouthful...mmmmmm Pataks!   

[Secret Santa]

...i had to go and cut a pizza and burger restraunt electric off the other day and you should have seen the amount of catering size jars of pataks they had in there...

Presumably they also made curries too? Or were those pastes used on the burgers and pizzas?!   

[Domi]

'Ere SS...there's a pizza place not far from us that does a CTM pizza and it's the tastiest CTM I've ever had but they're not a curry shop and they don't sell the sauce on it's todd and they don't do any other curry dish either mainly I think because they've opened right next door to a curry house If I can't make a curry we order a pizza rather than a curry takeout....

[Secret Santa]

Ah yes Domi, I never thought of that. I have seen those new fangled CTM pizzas but could never bring myself to try it, it seemed like sacrelege somehow.