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Hi all, I'm Samantha Stillman. I'm the author of the After Life, Age of the Gods: Donn's Chosen series. I'm an avid writer, reader, and crafter. My preference is no pronouns, name only, I'm aro and demi (more leaning towards ace). Do not DM me.
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barbed wire around the pasture, with my grandma's permission, to keep the cows in. They decided that they want the grass in the other pasture, which was on the other side of the driveway, and walked right through it without a care.
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I just... Romance is gross to me, the closest I can get to not being totally disgusted and turned away from it is when I'm reading Danmei, manga, or watching anime. I can handle it in those and I'm fine, but romance in anything else, especially directed towards me, no.
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Well... That's easy for me, and I am an Aries, the idea of anyone trying to be romantic to me makes me gag.
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I have no idea. It's usually only 2 people who eat it, but it's made in a standard lke 6qt slow cooker.
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I think it is, though at least the canned soup works if you just want tomato soup now and you don't have leftovers of the other.
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Definitely delicious, I'm not sure about rich, at least in terms of the homemade variety. With Campbell's tomato soup, yes.
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That's how my mom always liked it when she would make the canned soup. So the few times mom would try it, we did that instead of the heavy cream and we liked the taste better. Plus, it meant I didn't have to add vinegar or sugar to the recipe.
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Welcome. Does taste good, though my dad will sometimes add 2% milk to the bowl for a 'creamier' taste. I tried that once, thought it tasted weird.
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that I cannot remember what site I got the original recipe for… If I ever do find it, I’ll link it. Yeah... Long story!
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family liked until I found the right mix. I usually do everything as to taste because my tastes change all the time. The last thing I did was switch to evaporated milk from heavy cream because we prefer that flavor. So, that’s how my tomato soup came to be… Though it’s been long enough
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They used fresh basil added closer to the end. I like it cooked throughout the time, they used oregano, I didn’t like that flavor in the tomato soup (do like it with tomatoes, just not this soup), they had paprika, which was fine. I started looking into more standard seasonings my
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This is where I began to look at what they did and what we preferred. I left the tomato and vegetable broth components the same because those weren’t an issue. I left the red bell pepper alone because that’s in the canned soup. It was more the flavorings that I began to look into.
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Well, my dad and I. My mom prefers the Campbells Tomato Soup and that’s fine. So, after following the recipe a few times, I began to experiment. My dad kind of started pulling back on strict carb count as well and measuring amounts based the serving size instead of the whole recipe.
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, but that I can replace the chicken broth with vegetable broth. To that end, I came across a recipe that had components dad could have. So, as always, I made it following the recipe that I found. It was, okay, probably would be good to others, but didn’t really fit what my family preferred.
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It is.
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obituary for one of the two grandparents, the one that had been trying to get to my dad, after a stroke on said grandparent's end. By the way, that grandparent had used religion to literally torture my dad and was now trying to get forgiveness.
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I love how when they smack into the third, one backs off and the other takes off like, nope.
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Thanks.
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That was great. I laughed.
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I agree. I like the whole motif and it will be nice to try something actually labelled as filet crochet instead of something you almost look at like it is (AKA the doily I made).
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Thanks.
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Ended up lovely.
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This is so awesome. For one thing, putting it in a locket is a neat idea and doing embroidery that small.
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Same, that's why I'm looking forward to doing it after I finish my current one.
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Makes it more fun to actually work on it.
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Always.
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Well, probably just keep the center the same as the pattern has, as this will only be my second one, but it will certainly be fun and colorful.
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The patterns pic. They just want white thread.
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Yeah, but I chose my patterns based on, if I’m making doilies, they’ll match my personality and my personality isn’t soft and delicate.
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Yup, just a crochet thread… Though they chose the name of the color way as Mexicana. Whatever, I like it and I plan to try one with skull pattern in it with this thread afterwards.
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I did, but I’m only 6 rows away from complete.
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Love that. I’m just working on finishing my first ever doily.
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Love the summer vibes.