thank you so much for the collection! <3

Not sure if I'm allowed to enter this round, but here's a recipe for white hot chocolate. I use vegan ingredients since I'm vegan, but you can use non-vegan ingredients as well.

You can enter any round... And I need to try that.

Ahh okay. I was just wondering since I won something last round. Hope you like it! It's one of my favorite cold weather beverages. :)

Thank you so much for the prize!! ^_^

One of my favorite recipes is a dip for tortilla chips. 1 package mild sausage cooked to crumbles 1 10oz package of softened cream cheese 1 can undrained Rotel Throw together in a crock pot and heat until it mixes together. :D

Oh man comfort food is a tough one for me at the moment. My daughter has allergies so we can't have any dairy or soy ingredients in the house and I am missing them so badly!

One thing I adore is a soup my family make. We all do it different ways but it's great with crusty bread.

You basically combine yellow split peas, potato, carrot, turnip, onion and bacon lardons. Boil all together till the chunks can be mashed. I add veggie stock cubes. Sometimes I sub bacon for chicken and use chicken stock. It's the type of soup where you can chuck any veggies you have left over in and it's always good!

Round 3 is over!

All your propositions sounded yummy ;p I will go with as the winner for this round, the chocolate cinnamon cake sounds delicious (and I really like cinnamon)

Trivia's winner is (out of 13), who gets The answer was obviously Paris.

ROUND 4 : Forum - Listen to music you normally wouldn't. And share how it was! to win (and a participation prize for everyone of course!) Some suggestions but feel free to try something else : Kpop? Fake Love - BTS Classic soft rock? I'm your man - Leonard Cohen 70's art-pop? Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush 1960 chanson française? Edith Piaf - Non je ne regrette rien (with English translation in the video) Rap? Atmosphere - Became Electro pop? The Young Professionals - All of it but me

Trivia - Which magician died on Halloween? to win Trade Lot

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I listened to Rap? Atmosphere - Became

It was not as bad as I expected it to be. Obviously you can't be alive in this world without hearing SOME rap. Most of the bits and pieces I have heard were pretty..unpleasant. Loud, raucous, rude. This wasn't. BUT I have to say that if it didn't have music playing behind the artist it wouldn't be music at all. Just a rhythmic poem. It is not actual singing.

I picked this one cause it's not what most people would expect rap to be. :p I listen to a lot of rap, because of the texts! But mostly stay away from the loud rude style... Here in France, rap is really taking over and you have very different types of music that fall under the genre. From "loud, raucous, rude" to something very gentrified and polished. We have a big tradition of "chanson française" (literally French song) that really defined French music, it has well-written texts and very average vocals... so a whole range of rap is just the follow-up.

So I listen to everything but I lean more to classic rock and heavy metal so I picked I'm your man - Leonard Cohen. It wasn't bad, to me it sounded like someone in old school mafia fell in love and said I'm going to make a song for her to woo her. Then boom lol.

Rap ... "FEFE" — 6ix9ine ft. Nicki Minaj

My music taste is pretty varied, and while my main thing is pop-punk (think Fall Out Boy and Panic!At the Disco) I also listen to a lot of musical theater, and just whatever pandora puts up for me as long as it isn't too slow. The only songs I tend NOT to like are either too slow (my ADHD won't let me focus on the song), the lyrics are high key offensive (Blurred Lines makes me wanna punch something), and the kinds where its just sorta talking-as-singing (not rap, I mean the vocalist just has a very... creative take on what counts as singing, tends to be indie or a specific kind of folk music. Rap can be really impressive and requires a lot of vocal control and anything that can impress me I usually like). My anime phase came with a lot of jpop and eventually pulled in some kpop so I'm familiar with that too.

I went with that 70's art-pop cause it seemed least familiar to me besides the one in french (which if i get a song stuck in my head in a language i cannot even attempt to pronounce, I'm done for. Kpop is fine, korean makes sense as a language. French needs to chill on the letters you don't pronounce)

First impression is "whoah thats an interesting vocal tone, but also an impressive one" Second I felt sudden weird nostalgia for the music in the "The Last Unicorn" animated movie. Idk I think whatever that background Also it seems my attempt to get a song whose words I would comprehend did not happen. I have no idea what the words are at this point. I like this song but I'm not sure I could make this kind of music one I listen to a lot, mostly cause I like to sing along and it's both drastically out of my range and would take me some work to learn the words since I can't really comprehend them when listening. Also she looks like she was having fun making that video so that's always good.

I listened to Kpop? Fake Love - BTS, not something I usually listen to mainly I just listen to popular stuff on the radio but I really liked it and the beat :D

Thanks for that information on French rap. It is always interesting to me, to learn about music from other countries and how it varies from the American variety.

i dont watch/listen to kpop so i listened to the first song and the song is pretty! Im a music person so i can distinguish between major (happy) songs and minor (sad) songs. its clearly a minor song. And nothing special about the effects but i love them too!

Some of the suggested songs are types I'd listen to (including the French one as I'm Francophone)... so I tried until I got one I normally wouldn't... Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush. As I am prone to migraines, I had to stop. The high pitch voice didn't work for me but at least I tried.

I had been meaning to give KPop a try to find out what all the fuss was about. I just picked a BTS playlist on Spotify (ended up listening for like two hours) and I think it sounds pretty much like I imagine most contemporary pop sounds. Maybe it's the music videos that make it special?

Overall, it was pretty good, energizing background music. Pretty stark contrast to what I've been listening to lately. I wish there were more songs completely in Korean, I love listening to music in languages I don't know (or don't know that well) since I love languages and it's usually the lyrics that turn me off songs.

I especially liked the first song I heard, Make it Right, it reminded me of the music I used to listen to during my evening walks a few years ago and that sort of melancholic sound still takes me back to the autumn forest at sunset when it's starting to get chilly and dark. Gosh, I was so happy back then ; u ;

Also, the song Chicken Noodle Soup?! Totally caught me by surprise, I loved it

Maybe I should give French rap a listen next. I recently discovered Les Discrets and fell absolutely in love

I'm both terrible at finding new music and listen to pretty much everything so I tried listening to the french song you posted only to find that I'm already familiar with it 😂 (PS. the french song has the link to wuthering heights right above it)

Next I tried listening to the rap song you posted. It reminds me of lofi hiphop which I also listen to already 😅But I don't know if it's exactly like it. Though I've never heard this particular song I did like it, I like the rhymes and symbolism and music video. I want to show it to my friend so it will continue to be shared.

A method I had in high school for finding new music, I had this AM channel on the radio that would always play really unique music I never heard before. It was of course a local station but they always had underground rare music I never heard but ended up liking. I would go on the station's website to find the track list and copy the titles of the ones I liked so when I went home I would look them up to listen again. I guess it's rudimentary compared to things nowadays that I have no idea how to use like spotify. If anyone ever hears songs and you don't know the name, hang on to a few lyrics and try to look it up that way. Done that more than a few times.

Thank you so much for your awesome gifts throughout this giveaway! <3

A friend of mine recommended Dream Theater to me today, which I'd never heard of - turns out it's quite calming! These days I tend to listen to music with at least some electro going on, so industrial is where I usually sit.

Also, I have to say that I love the cover of Wuthering Heights by Euringer (Jimmy Urine from MSI). I'd never actually listened to the original but it was fantastic too, of course. xD

- I can see how Leonard Cohen's voice has a "old school mafia" vibe :p

- Korean is probably one of the most rational languages when it comes to writing/pronunciation logic. French is quite bad but English is pretty terrible too ;)

- I think it's the marketing that makes Kpop special... let's be honest. But it's very effective! Please give French rap a try, some suggestions: Youssoupha - Avoir De L'Argent Bigflo & Oli - Dommage MC Solaar - AIWA Gaël Faye - Tôt le matin Black M - Je suis chez moi

- Ooops. Link corrected.

Now... gifting! - Down to post 158!

Thank you for my participation prize and the prize from the previous round (forgot to thank before)