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+ Lao gan ma and cilantro if you’ve got it
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Noodles, peanut butter, soy sauce and voila! throw in whatever veggies and protein if you’re feeling fancy
May 6, 2024
sesame paste, peanut butter (optional but it adds a nice sweet edge), soy sauce, freshly grinded garlic (as much as you'd like) mix with a little hot oil or hot noodle water (from boiling noodles). Chilli is optional too. That's the noodle sauce.
Mix in boiled noodles.
Serve with chilled sliced cucumbers or other crunchy veggies of choice (carrots, beansprouts etc.)
EDIT: Adding in a link to a legit recipe, but once you get your sauce base down, you can experiment with adding/removing components.
Aug 19, 2024
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Peanut curry noodle situation: One pan with onions, garlic, curry powder, peanut butter, coconut milk, soy sauce, sriracha, and a vegetable of choice + ramen noodles. Maybe sesame oil too. Green onion garnish.
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Vodka sauce pasta situation (w/ no vodka, aka not vodka sauce): One pan with onion, garlic, crushed red pepper, tomato paste, coconut milk, and a vegetable of choice + noodle of choice.
Extra salt on both if we're getting really "comfort food".
Apr 16, 2024
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I made a Goodreads account recently and it asked me to rate some popular books I’d read before. Little did I know, every time I ranked a book, it would give me 5 more similar to that one, and then 5 more from that, and on and on until a neverending phylogenetic tree of books emerged on my screen.
I was on FaceTime with my friend as I did this, and we compared which books we’d both read, ones we loved, ones we got forced to read in school, ones we read as preteens, etc. But half an hour in and no end to the Goodreads algorithm, but stuck in The Very Hungry Caterpillar-y children’s book branch of the algorithm tree that I couldn’t escape, I started to get mad. So I command-Q’d chrome and called it a day.
This week I went back to organise my To Read list and to purge all the loose one-book memos on my notes app. My professor recently gave me her recommendations on queer literature and I wanted to properly organise them. On my profile it said I’d already read some 100+ books and I’d given them all 5 star ratings. Ok well now that’s pissing me off. Why is there digital clutter on my brand new account, and why did I give all that information to them anyways.? I love to categorise, but did I really need to log my readership of the individual 39 Clues books?
I feel similarly about when I first downloaded letterboxd and it made me go down a similar never ending algorithm of potential movies I’d watched before. I did spend an unreasonable amount of time swiping through those movies trying to remember if I really did watch Horton Hears a Who in 2008(?) or not.
Why do I feel the need to share this with the algorithm? genuinely what purpose does this serve me? Why am I volunteering memories from my 7 year old self when I learnt English by reading Geronimo Stilton books for the first time?
Anyways, I deleted all the past data from my Goodreads account. There’s only logs from my current reads, and the list of books I want to read next. There’s comfort in organising and seeing your life laid out in list/grid categories, like unlocking achievements on video games - oh did you know I read so and so and yeah I was a pretentious little bitch in high school and every YA book I read in 2013 has gotta be logged and
But there’s another type of comfort in keeping that information away from the internet where they’ll find a way to use that data against you. I can‘t think of a single occasion I’d need personalised ads for the chick-lit books I read in primary school but I know the algorithm is going to eventually find a way to sell my nostalgia back to me somehow… I‘m going to open any of my little apps and see hyper specific #ad on my screen.
I know I’ve given so much of me away online already - and look what I’m doing right now(!) , sharing my interests and recommendations to strangers online hah .. I won’t lie about the fact that it brings me joy to live online - it’s been my playground for so much of my life - Like sorry I am literally the internet explorer -But there was a time before I lived on the internet. I don’t think they need to know everything about Then.
I recommend not giving up everything about yourself to the machine
Mar 8, 2024
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Rawdog the sound of society while you walk… the tea is crazy
May 17, 2024