Yo Justin, we both seem to love simple but amazing food :)
At this moment my girlfriend is making her first magical meal (a red thai curry with potatoes and eggplant) after being away for 3 months (plus two weeks of quarantine)
You guys don't live far from where I grew up as a kid. I never really left the neighborhood, about one kilometer east to be exact :) so the distance will not be an issue. We should eat! ehm..meet! :)
ps: Thanks to you I get to taste this okra recipe real soon (keeping el fingers crossed)
Where did you find the garam masala?
pps: while writing this I went back to look at the pictures so I can try to imagine it passing through my chewing apparatus and tasting tool... Ow man...the mind is powerful