Toasting my spices
Coriander, fennel, cumin, caraway, pepper, cinnamon
Along with bay leaves and cardamom pods, it's just gone into a vegetable goulash (red onions, shallots, leeks, carrot, red peppers, celery, tomatoes, puy lentils, root ginger, fresh coriander, lots of garlic) and will produce richly flavoured splodge once it's simmered.
Edit - now I think about it, I once did rub a version of this on a chicken before roasting it.
It goes very nicely with sausages. Or just on riceI evolved it when I was too poor to afford meat worth eating.
I did version of this as a base for casseroling some merguez sausages