Garp please excuse spelling ! Some iPad auto correction ! I constantly fight with that ! Some colonial education !

and I knew if I joined this group I would have to take the heat on this one !!!
Expat because it's a term used by foreigners living in Asia of course the Asians have there own names for us
No not trying to sell anything it's more a purist pursuit ! But living in the third world I have had to learn how to grow my own ! Make my own and buy things online !
Curry making and spice has been a life time thing for my me ! I read every recipe I can and have learned to put aside any that include the words " add a teaspoon of curry powder "
And like the matrix can see through the list f spices in a recipe and methods of perpetration to know if it's the real thing
I know enough to know that most the curry pastes recipe online are not even close to commercial pastes in there construction irrespective of how fresh the spices and condiments in them are .
Comments on commercial pastes you make may be true but thy would not have started out that way I am sure ! How many great boutique brands end up that way as thy buckle to commercialism ! I see even Pataks is now sold to a multi national
What I would like to do is render down those points that commercial pasts have that home made pasts do not have , into something that those experienced enough can repeat in our own kitchens !
I am a hole fresh spice person ! I roast and grind from fresh hole spice and I do not follow any recipe any more ! But I also appreciate what Pataks did for me over the years when I did not have the time ! And I think that good pastes can help some one who dose not have the knowledge and spice to make very
expectable curries !
I will post what I have and where I am up to and hope that you all can help take this forward
I was a cook in the Air Force and have a background in chemistry ! So I will get to the bottom of this ! But for sure it will be easier with this curry group on my side !