Okay I am sold on this gunpowder. If my local Indian run grocer has curry leaf I am so making a batch if this. Curry leaf may or may not be available around here. I'll just skip it than. Podi seems like a magical thing to have around.
I'm glad Monkey B was safely rescued.
Sometimes you could even find them at a SE Asian grocery too, although they certainly aren't used in SE Asian cuisine as much as Indian. Google "Indian podi recipes" and you will enter a world of crunchy deliciousness. My top two are still peanut podi and lentil-roasted garlic podi.