Homemade spice mixes

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Do you blend your own chili powder?

I am using recipes from The New Professional Chef The CIA, and the BBQ Spice Mix uses chili (not chile) powder as an ingredient. It also uses cayenne. I have some dried chiles, including my MIL’s scotch bonnet, smoked and dried, which choked me out this morning. Also, my son and DIL brought dried and ground chiles from Turkey, and I was hoping to understand and use those as well. So two recipes; Chili powder ( with dried and ground chilies, cumin, oregano, garlic powder, and ground corria…