Mild spicy dishes recommendations please?

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I am vegetarian and like spicy food but unfortunately can no longer tolerate anything too hot as it upsets tummy.

But I'd love to be able to make and enjoy mild spicy dishes

I currently have in spice wise

Smoked paprika
Normal paprika
Ground cumin
Ground ginger
Coriander leaf
Mild chilli powder

Think I have ground sweet cinnamon too.

Mainly thinking savoury recipes but happy to consider sweet ones too as I've finally been able to get hold of some scales!

Kitchen was very poorly stocked with equipment prior to this as I was out of the habit of cooking and baking.

I have a loaf tin, bun tray, casserole dishes, small mixing bowl, measuring jug and measuring spoons.

Havent yet managed to get a sieve or whisk or wooden spoons (who'd have thought wooden spoons would be hard to get?!)

Recipes or general guidance either would be much appreciated.

Slightly odd idea, but if you need to be really careful with spice, have you thought about looking at recipes designed for toddlers/weaning? E.g. something like Annabel Karmel? Not suggesting you eat puree or rusks obviously but this is a nice recipe for a super mild curry (obvs you would need to replace the chicken with quorn pieces or a tin of chickpeas to make it veggie)

www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes/first-chicken-curry/

Or otherwise I would probably just go on BBC Good Food and search their vegetarian/baking collections, but only put in half or a quarter or just a pinch of any recommended spices, if you find the dishes too bland you can always increase up the next time until you find your happy level (I am a spice lover personally and often double the recommended quantities, this has on occasion resulted in disaster but I am confident on my limits now!). E.g. this is a nice recipe for veggie chilli, doesn't look blow-your-head-off spicy as written but for you I'd maybe do 1 tsp of the cumin and paprika and half a teaspoon or just a sprinkle of chilli powder and see how you go.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/bean-pepper-chilli

Overall I would just try and increase your confidence with making substitutions or leaving things you don't like/can't eat out of recipes altogether - this goes for equipment too e.g. I have a sieve but I often don't bother sieving flour even where a recipe says to, unless it looks lumpy. Or if my wooden spoon is in the wash I use a plastic or metal one - generally works fine. You find these things out by trial and error, you have to be prepared to make mistakes. I hate food waste so I do try and avoid doing anything which would lead to things becoming completely inedible such as burning to a crisp or undercooked meat, but otherwise I'm afraid the family has to be quite unfussy about eating up the things which haven't come out so well - there are a few infamous 'incidents' DH likes to remind me of, the 'cheesy fish bake' which a website highly recommended to me but which came out pretty disgusting being one , I was eating that by myself for a week as no-one else would touch it - I'm pretty sure all good cooks/bakers have similar stories to tell!