I assume many other people are on to this range as very fine tasting. The shelf was almost bare at my local Aldi, this morning, but I did manage to pick up a butter chicken, so I can compare it with Aldi's chicken tikka masala and the M&S butter chicken which is sensational.

Pete  - Good to hear from you. I know you have high standards. Which dishes, in particular, do you feel you can't quite match? Haven't any of the youtube videos helped? I tend to mix and match ideas from multiple channels to form my own hybrid type recipes based on my hunch of what might work. For years, I have been able to make chicken biriani and chicken dhansak to a similar standard to some of my favourite BIRs but no other dishes are tried and tested to the same degree as those. So my approach has been to focus all my effort into replicating very few dishes - my favourites. I should make them more often now that BIRs are tending to price themselves out of the market, in my opinion.

I agree that beef dishes seem out of place for a BIR, even though one of the first curries I have ever had was a Vesta beef curry. I may try Aldi's butter chicken to see how it compares to the excellent version from M&S. I accept that creamy curries are not to everyone's taste.

The only other one I tried was the Jalfrezi but it didn't impress me much, to be honest.

I'd think this was good if served in a restaurant. Recommended.

Quote from: Robbo141 on November 05, 2021, 01:06 PM
This site is really not user friendly, particularly when it comes to uploading photos.  Every pic I take with my phone I have to share with my iPad, load it into my excellent Affinity Photo app, resize, export to lower the file size, save it, then upload to this site's special place to get a link code, then paste in this text box. 

I'm fairly sure the most time consuming and irritating part of your criticism no longer applies. When I recently uploaded an image of a food pack I was pleased to see I could upload the image directly using the Attachments button at the bottom of the reply screeen (but not quick reply for some reason).

Back to the main thread topic, the lack of any response to my post, or many others, seems really indicative of how participation in this forum has fallen to what may be an all time low. It's so sad. Does anyone have any ideas of how we could re-generate some interest? The group tests done a few years ago were not a bad idea. I am guilty of not posting about things I have done over the past year or two, like buying quite a few curry tree plants and having them all die, before buying some more recently, to try again with a different approach. Maybe someone here knows about how to grow curry tree plants, for example.

I believe that eating your main meal for the day at lunchtime is much healthier. I know I should do it more often. By chance, I had Thai green curry yesterday, using a kit from Blue Dragon, bought at Asda. A similar kit from Aldi is better value. I was going to try making a similar sauce from scratch but it may be costly to gather together all the herbs and spices which they include in one of the envelopes.

Quote from: Peripatetic Phil on September 10, 2021, 09:56 AM
Send me the PDF, George, and I will find a way to upload it

Maybe I will, thanks, But, first, does anyone know the file size limit? Maybe that's the issue. My original document is 12 pages but only the first 8 pages are for post #1 (the recipe). I was going to trim it but didn't. Then, maybe it's possible to resave a pdf document more efficiently for a smaller file size.

And here would have been the pdf copy I captured. It will be a crime if only the recipe text is added back, given the photos are so good.

Instead there was an error message I received:

"Your attachment could not be saved. This might happen because it took too long to upload or the file is larger than the server will allow.

Please consult your server administrator for more information."