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Made a regular batch of biscuits and added some leftover mashed potatoes to use em up and a little extra flour to even out the sticky texture. They were so fluffy and soft!!!!! Cut them into squares and put a load of cheese on each biscuit before baking.
For the dumplings I used blobs of the extra biscuit dough dropped into the boiling soup and cooked em 10 minutes
I do a lot of hobby writing and I get into the weeds editing. I really like tts services to read out my works so I can catch funny phrasing or weird grammar/ writing flow. However i've tried some of the samples of the natural sounding big name tts services but after a bit get either paywalled or find they hit a wall with certain writing things if they are free/ have a free version(word count, pacing, pronunciation, etc). I'm kinda broke and this is just a hobby so I'm not looking to sink a shitload of money into buying a subscription service.
When I write the word flow and pronunciation is the key issue I find free tts services run into. Certain written out moans shushes or onomatopeia get mangled as well as inserted non english terms/names/fantasy names within english works. Stuttering in character diallouge also gets majorly screwed.
Also not all tts services hold enough on paragraph breaks, comas, and elipses making it hard to understand the sentence flow. I write with a lot of dramatic emphasis by pulling single sentences into their own paragraphs, using elipses, or making sentences with lists of ideas. So I feel like I don't get an idea sometimes of what is key in the prose or where one idea ends and another begins if the tts service runs through it without respecting the set punctuation. furthermore some pronunciation doesnt differentiate well between ending punctuation like periods, question marks and exclamation points. so ill miss noticing places where ive used certain punctuation or end up wondering if i forgot punctuation with the right sort of emphasis. but the real issue is tts just instead read the mark as if it was a period.
I really rely on these services to read back my work and it would be nice if I didn't have to settle for services that mangled these details. This way I can streamline my workflow when it comes to line edits especially where grammar and sentence construction rely on how the words flow and how the phrasing reads aloud.
I love j curry and a good biscuit crust chicken pot pie so the combo was a no brainer. Also the cheese was a no brainer since there’s a Japanese market near me with a food court serving cheese on their curry if you ask for it. Really good combo. Same steps as chicken pot pie but instead of using a roux I just use the Japanese curry brick for the sauce and then threw in shredded chicken and my veg then I let it cook till the veg is soft. I went the extra mile and made a half batch of homemade buttermilk biscuits and sprinkled a heavy dose of cheddar on top at the end. But lazy people can use the canned stuff and everything is still a ok by me. Bake untill biscuits are done and cheese is crispy. 35 minutes at 350 approx.
Did a little biscuit crust pot pie j curry fusion thing and it turned out so well!!!!!
I love j curry and a good biscuit crust chicken pot pie so the combo was a no brainer. Also the cheese was a no brainer since there’s a Japanese market near me with a food court serving cheese on their curry if you ask for it.
Really good combo. Same steps as chicken pot pie but instead of using a roux I just use the Japanese curry brick for the sauce and then threw in shredded chicken and my veg then I let it cook till the veg is soft. I went the extra mile and made a half batch of homemade buttermilk biscuits and sprinkled a heavy dose of cheddar on top at the end. But lazy people can use the canned stuff and everything is still a ok by me.
Bake untill biscuits are done and cheese is crispy. 35 minutes at 350 approx.
Not the achievement I can share with everyone but that’s cool I guess. I like completely ignored it lmao and I checked in on it recently and wowww!!! I’m fairly new to smut writing and don’t have a lot of experience shall we say so I’m surprised my work got so popular. Hehe 🤭 I guess the smut writing research payed off.
I got into almost all the courses I need but I didn’t get into a physical science and kinda last minute need to figure something out. Any suggestions on what to crash? I tried fritshle for geography but she’s all full
Beef, white carrots, celery, potatoes all in a delicious tomato curry sauce
Ingredients:
1 egg white
1tsp vinegar
1/2cup sugar
double shot expresso or 2 tsp instant coffee mixed with 2 tbsp hot water
Large serving cup full of crushed ice
using an electric beater beat everything but the coffee on high in a metal bowl over a pot of boiling water until it has a marshmallow fluff texture (5-7minutes). you can make a larger batch so you don't have to constantly re make it if you like the drink. The fluff will store well in the fridge.
make your coffee and pour it over a cup full of crushed ice and stir to combine untill ice is semi melted for a cup of strong black coffee. You need it super strong and black to balance the extra sweet marshmallow fluff!
add a decent scoop of your marshmallow mixture on top and mix it in a little to the coffee with a fork since it is thick. Add in a straw once combined and voila the best coffee for when you are out of milk!!!!
the marshmallow mix is enough for two drinks so either wrap up the rest for later or make you and a friend this amazing treat!!!
it is like a Vietnamese egg coffee but safer to drink since the egg is cooked and easier since it's just 3 common ingredients. It uses only white not the yolk like other egg coffee but same idea and just as delicious!
Ingredients:
1 egg white
1tsp vinegar
1/2cup sugar
double shot expresso or 2 tsp instant coffee mixed with 2 tbsp hot water
Large serving cup full of crushed ice
using an electric beater beat everything but the coffee on high in a metal bowl over a pot of boiling water until it has a marshmallow fluff texture (5-7minutes). you can make a larger batch so you don't have to constantly re make it if you like the drink. The fluff will store well in the fridge.
make your coffee and pour it over a cup full of crushed ice and stir to combine untill ice is semi melted for a cup of strong black coffee. You need it super strong and black to balance the extra sweet marshmallow fluff!
add a decent scoop of your marshmallow mixture on top and mix it in a little to the coffee with a fork since it is thick. Add in a straw once combined and voila the best coffee for when you are out of milk!!!!
the marshmallow mix is enough for two drinks so either wrap up the rest for later or make you and a friend this amazing treat!!!
it is like a Vietnamese egg coffee but safer to drink since the egg is cooked and easier since it's just 3 common ingredients. It uses only white not the yolk like other egg coffee but same idea and just as delicious!
I’m 19 and I need to stay at home for a variety of reasons and I can’t leave just yet. I’m too broke to get a roomate and I’m in the process of finding a job and the only time I can leave is when I’m financially stable enough or have a good living situation worked out. I’m in college and where I live is close to school.
My dad is threatening to kick me out for being “unreasonable” but that’s not the case since he is abusive and I am struggling with depression because my parents are homophobic and I’m closeted and queer. I’m also autistic so I struggle to manage my tone and attitude. All together that makes me come off as unreasonable to them when the true issue is the stress they put me under makes me snap time to time.
My dad is verbally abusive calling me and my mom names and gets physical breaking personal objects and throwing items at us (he threw pots and pans at me once when he wasn’t happy with something). He often nitpicks me and my mom and no matter what we do it’s never good enough even if I’m doing just what he asks. If he sees me doing dishes he’ll act like a backseat driver directing just how I run the water or add in soap or how I put things away like I’m incapable of doing it myself all the while he sits at the living room table watching and never helping out.
He also is impossible to communicate with and treats me and my mom like his maids leaving his dirty underwear in the bathtub or pots of moldy food in the oven and refuses to help clean up after himself.
He constantly threatens to kick me out because my tone and attitude aren’t just so around him but he doesn’t understand I’m depressed and stressed and autistic and dealing with him makes naturaly me act up. If I’m hiding myself real self every day and living as a lie just to make my parents happy of course I’d be stressed and depressed. If I’m trying to constantly mask and don’t always understand what’s wrong then I’d obviously come off in the wrong ways sometimes. If he gets physical shoving me around or calling names of course I’d end up crying and raising my voice. I’ve gone to therapy and I already know my parents are the source of my depression.
Either way the kicking out thing has escalated to now my dad wants me to draft a written agreement I can sign that says I won’t be disagreeable(raise my tone, have a nasty tone, yell, say rude sounding things, and will generally respect him). Otherwise if I don’t do it soon in the next day or so I’ll get sent to the nearest shelter and kicked out for good. I don’t want to get kicked out since I need certain resources from living with my parents but I also don’t want to lie down and take his abuse by writing something up.
If I write something up and then end up lashing out because of the stress of my dad’s abuse I worry he’ll say I violated the agreement and kick me out. Essentially the agreement backs me into a corner and exploits my reactions to his abuse.
I don’t want his abuse as much as I don’t want to leave and I only want to stay long enough to be in a stable spot so when I leave i can support myself financially. I need help and don’t know what to do.
I’ve already reached out to support services and thy don’t tell me much since they feel just as stuck at relieving this situation. Also adult abuse services target the disabled and elderly and even though my autism is a disability the way it was diagnosed by a school psychologist not a doctor when younger means it’s hard for me to get services even though medical professionals and doctors respect the diagnosis because it was through someone with psychologist qualifications. So they aren’t able to help me that well and usually they target partner abuse not abuse between other family members.
I don’t have family or family friends I can crash with and don’t want to anyway since it might trigger my parents to kick me out for good if I stop hanging around the house.
As a chef with a shitload of home grown tomatoes the closest thing i can make is like a fancy tomato paste dip or an extra smooth pasta sauce. It’s like buttery smooth gel and you can tell when sauce has that texture. It’s what makes cheap pasta sauce or cheap tomato products (think sphagetios) taste bad and what makes ketchup taste unique as its own type of sauce.
Like bad pasta sauce has the texture of ketchup and bad ketchup has the texture of pasta sauce.
Edit: whats with all the downvotes? In this sub there are no stupid questions and I’m only trying to get answers.
Inspired by a Spanish tortilla but taken up a notch with lots of cheddar and butter whisked into the eggs and a touch of veggie salt I used one small russet potato sliced into pieces and steamed in the microwave for 5 minutes and 3 eggs for a self serving size omelet
Having experienced others around me become mentaly Ill in ways that affects their judgment and interpersonal relationships i feel so sad and scared knowing others might place those thoughts on me if they know i have depresion. I’ve had to have caution out of necesity for some people I’ve known but to have others think they need to for me feels awful.
Like the idea they’d have thoughts that im a burden to deal with when i show symptoms. Or thoughts I’m a handful if i can’t be trusted for my own safety (some mental health profesionals assume your actively suicidal when you mention not liking your life but honestly im not and the thought of trying to hurt myself is scary). Or thinking i might snap and lash out because depression is taxing to deal with.
I don’t want people to leave me because I already feel so alone but I can’t handle the idea of my mental health burdening others and making them distance themselves or put up walls because they feel uncomfortable around me. It makes it feel so scary to seek treatment like medication or be refered to intensive therapy programs. I can’t deal with that.
Also i fear once people know i have problems I’m just gonna get batted around the medical system and mistreated. I’ve already had people act condiscending because of my autism before i was depressed when I tried to reach out for services. So the thought of showing a depressive symptom bad enough to not be trusted and to be told i need intensive care or hospitalization scares me.
I don’t want to feel like I’m less than because I have problems with my mental health. It only makes me feel more depressed.
Like I said I have a fic that has two beta readers (the more the merrier as people say) and it’s only a short one chapter deal about 1,200 words. I reached out to multiple betas when my regular beta wasn’t answering and they all kinda answered late but eventually a few days later my regular beta and one other beta answered back. The regular beta got the fic done in an evening since it’s so short and responded to my resulting changes 2 days after. Me and my beta have a system where I link to their ao3 and credit them in my fic notes with their username and the link and I said I would. We decided my regular beta was done making comments and doing all they could. So I left it to this new beta to look it over next.
As for this other beta they got though the first 3 paragraphs (200 words) and had a handful of comments on various things I did fix but didn’t continue further. They said they where tired at the time of working on it and would get back to looking it over the next day. It’s been a week since they last looked it over and I’m getting worried. I’m in no rush to post it since it’s not apart of an ongoing fic or apart of a series. It’s super short and self contained and I’m totally fine with waiting if a beta has life to take care of. But it is short so it does worry me slightly it’s so long to wait.
It’s just been a while and I’ve already reached out to this beta yesterday to check in but I haven’t heard anything back. I’m wondering if I should just post it (not because I’m impatient but because it seems like nothing is happening) and credit my regular beta only? I just want to adequately credit the new beta if they do any work and if they feel comfortable with that. I know though some don’t want to be attached to certain works for their fandom or rating. However I’m not sure how I would go about it if their only partially done with such a short fic and I don’t know if they even want the credit.
Any idea on what to do? Maybe I’m being unreasonable and I should just wait it out. Lmk
So the other day I found out about ennaria and her song monstarr and I need so much more of that! I’ve found a small handful of songs mixing metal vibes with hyperpop but everything I come across looking for similar stuff doesn’t hit that heavy vibe with enough harsh vocals or blast beats or lean hyper pop with enough autotune or trap beat influences. at most it’s super glitchy metal or vaguely pop punk/rock inspired hyperpop. The most on genere I’ve found so far is playboi by vanna and it’s exactly the vibe I need!
And don’t recomend bmth. When I’ve asked before people tell me to look at them. they’re great for metal but it’s more glitchy metal than pure hyperpop blended with metal.
If you need to see what exact vibe I’m talking about then check out my playlist of songs so far.
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXz8RoUY-y6GwpSZzpobvEEAfBJM8ofki&si=GxN7hcAqcsQKZ371
It’s been over a year since I’ve had a flare up and I just got one again. I know it’s a flare up because I get this sore throat that feels unique to lupus. Does anyone else feel this kind of sore throat?
It’s not itchy or scratch or intensely painful it feels more like the sensation you get when your scalp is tugged on from a tight hair style but in my throat. It feels gently tender and swollen but again not painful or itchy in the same way being sick makes it feel. I’m not on any lupus meds since I have extremely light flares and have been managing ok lately. But I’m sure it’s some degree of lupus related since it feels different to anything else.