As a way of saying thank you to a good friend of ours who came to our aide regarding a rather impulsive eBay purchase, we honoured him with a curry night at the beach hut.  I have a curry recipe which I use all the time and it does it for me.  I don't grind my own spices, I simply use a ready-made curry paste but always it has to be Patak's™.  I've…