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Old Fashioned Dumpling Soup Recipe

Since it’s the Year of Soup, here’s the VERY simple dumpling recipe I got from a very old neighbor of mine a decade or so ago. I haven’t tried making a vegan version of this, but so long as there is some fat in the broth (I.e. if you sautéed some veggies in oil or butter) it should still work. Not sure about alternative (non-wheat) flours.

1) Make your stock. To make from scratch, I usually put a chicken leg quarter and some onions/carrots/celery in boiling water and let simmer for a couple hours, low heat to cook it slowly to make it tender.

2) Remove the solid bits from the boiling broth - chicken will need to cool before you pick it off from the bone. While the broth is still boiling, in a heat proof bowl mix equal parts plain flour and boiling broth until you can make a soft dough.

3) Roll out and cut up the dough - or pinch off with stickier dough for softer dumplings - into bite sized pieces about a centimeter thick and add back to boiling broth. Cook for 10-12 minutes.

4) Add back in chicken meat (or other pre-cooked ingredients to taste) and serve.

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IT’S A WIP WE ARE WIPPING ON A WEDNESDAY

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i needed this

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Introducing a new member of Steph's team... Zachary Zatara!! It's been a while since I've drawn for Steph and her TrWh team, so decided to make up for it with new members!

Decided to go for Zachary Zatara for the magic member of the team, since I thought he would bring some interesting dynamics with the other kids. (thought about him for Jason's team, but I thought Lori fitted better there) The other kids find him sooo annoying but Zachary is good at magic... when he's not being a little full of himself. But that's what makes him so fun a character tho! I wonder if Zatanna (Zachary's far more famous cousin) pushed him to join a team to help his loneliness (and to get him out of her hair lol).

It's funny that Zachary wants to join with Steph's team because there's more girls, but with him there it more even in gender. Though that will change soon enough...

Also the girl with the large red bow in Zachary's hat is his hapless assistant Bunny, I'm not sure that's her real name, we don't get a whole lot of info on her. All we know is that she dated Zachary and is Japanese. By the way, she's not actually a member of the team, but she'll help/hang out occasionally due to Zachary spending time there.

I decided to give her a sorta placeholder name "Usagi Mochizuki" til we get one in canon, assuming we ever see her again. Usagi for the obvious bunny meaning. And Mochizuki for the 'wish/desire' meaning, relating to magic. And also fullmoon, cuz moon bunny lol.

She doesn't have magic in the comics, but I decided she will in my au! She also wants to be a famous magician, inspired by Zatanna. She tries to help Zachary's shows behind the scenes, making sure the show goes to plan.

Here's a cute little bonus pic:

Anyways! That was a lot, hope you like it tho!

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Zachary Zatara (DC Super Hero Girls 2019)

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Decided to post some art of Lori Zechlin, aka Black Alice!

She's the magic member of the lil Outlaws and probably their most mischievous member. She just likes having fun, its not her fault nobody else sees how funny she is! She's kinda the baby of the group (she's the youngest member btw) so she gets a little leeway but sometimes the team lose their patience with her.

Due to her extremely impish nature, the other kids sometimes consider her to be a bit of a brat. But they can't deny how OP her powers can be (when it works tho, lol). Her powers, by the way, to steal the magic from other magical users. For only a short time, and sometimes she picks up the wrong magic accidently, she's still new to all this!

Her story is a bit different to canon tho some similarities remain. One day her powers start to appear, Lori starts to have fun with all the random powers she gets. All the trouble she causes grabs the attention of the newly formed Birds of Prey, and so Barbara takes her under her wing. To try to help Lori with her magic (maybe she tries to find magic mentors for her) and protect her, as some bad people have taken notice of someone siphoning the magical powers of others for short bursts of time.

I'm not sure if Lori's mother is already dead, or if I should have her die at some point. I probably should, since her death is an important part of Lori's character.

Its possible Barbara asked Jason if she could join his group of friends, so that Lori won't feel too lonely. Also Lori is kinda exhausting to deal with, what with all her pranks and magical induced chaos. Jason felt that he and Lori were pretty similar in a lot of ways, he identified real hard with her backstory. So he invites her to the team, plus he finds her pranks funny as hell (unless they involved him ofc lol).

Of the team she probably gets along best with Eddie, Courtney, and Owen, Gillian and Jason find her funny as well. Rose and Toni finds her annoying, one of the few things they agree on.

Here's some drawings of Lori causing trouble all over the DC universe!

She's such a trouble maker! Barbara has a hard time trying to smooth relations with all the magic users.

Here's her hanging out a younger Night Force, maybe this is a sorta club made to help young magicians control their powers. Lori btw is stealing Tim Hunter's powers atm. Might be too early for Eddie to join, since his powers haven't come in but I wanted him to have 'fun' here too!

Here's Barbara being completely done with all this, looks like Zinda is having some fun with all this. Btw, I'm not sure if I'm keeping the plotpoint of Lori and Charlotte being secret sisters, that felt really random and I'm not sure is even compatible with their backstories? Imma just ignore that, they still find each other annoying tho!

Here's a little bonus doodle of Lori causing a bit of chaos, Rose and Jason are shocked!!

Anyways, hope you liked all that!

BUT WAIT!!! Here's a little bonus bonus doodle, an unfinished comic:

How Jason meets Lori! Its unfinished since I'm having trouble with figuring out what comes next, but when I do figure it out, I'll give it its own post.

Ok now I'm done haha!

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magic boy and the devil✨

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Me divierte mucho dibujar a estos weones jsjs ,also acá están mas chiquitos ya que me gusta pensar que en la serie era cuando estaban más niños :3

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Shoots them with the chiikawa beam

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Why is this heat so hot 😩

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me too Mariner... me too...

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yeah................

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am i the only one who kinda liked Chekovs Bob?? in the first few chekov episodes before they fixed it up with the classic side-swoop ??

he looks like a rapscallion ruffian chihuahua mushroom ball, its cute

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more dumb shit ft. chekov exclusively

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Very Short Treks masterpost