Mr. Son's very (very) simple flour noodles:
Have flour on hand.
Cup of flour into bowl or tupperware or any other food safe container.
Try to remember to put salt in. It's easy to forget. It's not a big deal if you forget, but try to remember. Not a lot. More than a pinch, less than a teaspoon. Half a teaspoon, maybe?
Add water. Tap water is fine. 1/2 a cup is too little. 3/4th of a cup is too much. You want to add enough that you can mix all the flour up into one single ball, but it's not all gooey and excessively sticky. Do your best, imprecision is fine.
Put lid or cover onto container and wander off for one or more hours. Yes, this is a real step. The gluten is forming.
If you don't want to use the dough right away, put it in the fridge for a few hours or even a day or two.
Boil water. Put salt in the water. Less salt if you remembered to add salt into the dough. I never measure the salt for this I just have a vague sense of the right amount. Experiment! Learn how much salt you like! No, it doesn't need to "taste like the ocean". That's probably too much.
Take out dough.
Turn on water or have a bowl of clean water ready. Wet fingers.
Start ripping pieces of dough off the dough ball. You want about the size of a coin (your choice of coin, seriously). Shapes don't really matter. Tighter denser shapes give more chew, longer flatter shapes take sauce better and are usually easier to form. When your fingers get sticky, rinse them off and shake the excess water back off.
Boil 5-10 minutes or until desired chewiness levels. Test noodles after a few minutes by picking one out and eating it. Practice will teach you the flavor of "the flour's still a little raw", but eating undercooked noodles is unlikely to cause you serious harm. There's a risk, but the risk is very small. When in doubt just give them a tad bit longer.
Note: There's a risk of the pot boiling over if you leave it unattended. The starch and protein from the noodles mean any bubbles that form don't pop fast enough and they build up into a froth. Try turning the water down to just barely boiling. And if it's foaming up, blow on the top of the froth and it subsides. I have no idea why blowing on the foam makes it go away so fast, but it does.
BONUS!
Prepping your cooked noodles like Mr. Son:
Take slatted spoon.
Spoon about 1/2 to 2/3 of the noodles into a bowl. Let each spoonful drain until it's barely dripping before dropping them in.
Shred a stick of string cheese over the noodles.
Spoon in the rest of the noodles over the cheese.
Stir cheese into noodles.
Add tomato sauce of choice over noodles.
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i chatted with sb in another app just one time he wanted to know me he told me some information about himself and asked me the same questions but i said iwill tell him later bcz (i dont trust strangers easily +idont know if its real relationship or not +our countries are different)
he didnt answer my last msg but opens my profile and im still receiving notifications about that, ithink he is angry
i didnt tell him even whats my name (i think my name is my identity.. as i cant give my identity to other easily, icant tell others my name easily+i love my name so the one who knows my name or personal information i must be trust him and know him),, im not good with words or explaining my thoughts
plz give me adivce, how can i tell him that? or what should i do?
also please give me information about the importance of names to us
thank u
well first of all, it sounds like you know this already, but i just want to say that it's totally fine if you don't want to give out your name to a stranger. that is always okay. you don't owe anybody that information. your privacy is important. that is a very common boundary to have.
i think you can say something like "i don't use my real name online, but you can call me [some other name]." that tells him that it's not anything to do with him, it's just a general boundary you have.
you can also say "my privacy is important to me and i'm not comfortable sharing information that would identify me. i hope you'd still like to continue talking to me, but i understand if you'd rather end the conversation here." it sets out what he can expect from you more clearly.
if he pressures you, including if he says that he told you his info so you have to tell him yours - that's not fair of him. you didn't ask him for the information he gave you, and it's a pretty classic tactic for guilting people into being more vulnerable than they want to be.
it's also possible that he's not trying to guilt you into anything. maybe you just have different priorities for the relationship (he wants to be super open from the get-go, and you aren't comfortable with that). that might mean that you aren't compatible, which is too bad, but that's the way it goes sometimes and it's nobody's fault.
in the future, i would suggest not telling people that you will share information later if you're not sure that you're going to share it. that can confuse or mislead people. it's totally okay just to say upfront that you would like to keep your name and other identifying information private.
you may also want to think about your stance on privacy versus intimacy (i don't mean physical intimacy, just getting to know someone really well). there's a tradeoff there. are you looking for an intimate connection? if so, eventually you're going to have to trust them with some information (not necessarily your name, but something). it is hard for people to get to know you deeply if you don't tell them things about yourself. so just make sure that what you're looking for on the app is compatible with what you're willing to give. does that make sense?
i'm not sure i understand what you mean by "information about the importance of names to us" at the end of your ask (who is "us"?) - can you rephrase that?
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After the hospital bombing, I finally heard back from my grandmother and confirmed that several of my relatives were murdered by Israeli bombing. Seven of them, to be precise. Three are still going, including her. We've been talking constantly ever since.
Asked if it was possible to head south, and was told they did but were also bombed there. So they decided to go back home, in Zeitoun. Their home was bombed and they were pulled out of the rumble, then driven by ambulances to the al-Ahli Arab Hospital. There were people in every corner. Gazans sheltering, sleeping on the floor. Gazans dying on the floor, waiting for beds.
Four were declared dead on arrival, three were in need of surgery and other three were just bandaged. Then, a bomb was dropped in the parking lot that made parts of the ceiling collapse, like Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah reported in that horrific conference/interview. Those in need of surgery died.
By the way, just in case you didn't know: the Church of Saint Porphyrius, the third oldest in history, bombed by Israel a few days back, was located near the hospital.
When looking for new shelter, they saw schools with signs hanging outside, "We can't take any more families." They met families, sympathetic but already sheltering too many people. They're now staying in an apartment building they found empty. Sleeping in the corner of the living room. If the family comes back, they'll apologize and leave.
Told me she was saving her phone battery for when the bombing stopped, and she had to ask for help to rebuilt the neighborhood. But she doesn't think it's gonna stop anymore. The ones still with her are mute most of the time, like they're saving energy, but she feels lonely and wanted to talk. There's no internet and to connect to WhatsApp, people are buying "a card from the supermarket, there's a password and username." Not sure what she meant. Still, the internet is inconsistent and won't load neither videos or images nor pages, so she doesn't know what's happening on the outside world.
Told her there were a lot of people protesting to stop the genocide, she replied, "The bombings are getting worse by the day." The bombing yesterday was the worst she ever witnessed. The entire neighborhood is infested with the smell of death, of decomposing bodies. Bodies are piling up in the streets and she's not sure if it's because they ran out of places to store them, but most of them are in bags. The smoke of the bombings hide the blue sky—she hasn't seen the clouds for a while.
Asked if I could share their pictures, names and dreams with people and was told, of which I partly agree, "they're not entertainment." If anyone genuinely cared, they would be alive—I'd argue there are people who do care, but I'm not gonna lecture her pain. And they don't deserve to be used to fulfill someone's sick fantasy. Told me to remember what some Israelis do with pictures of dead Palestinians. And I do.
For those of you who are not familiar, many times before settlers got together to celebrate the murder of Palestinians. For one, in 2015, Israeli settlers set a house in Duma, West Bank on fire. An 18-month old baby, Ali Dawbsheh, was burnt alive. Both parents later died of wounds and only a 5-year-old, Ahmad, survived, although severely injured.
Two celebrations of their murder are widely known, one at a wedding and others outside the court in which two were indicted for the terrorist attack. In the wedding, guests stabbed a photo of the toddler, Ali, while others waved guns, knives and Molotov cocktails. Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was present.
That's what happens in an apartheid. Palestinians are so abused by authorities that their "innocent civilians" come to accept the brutality as necessary or are desensitized by our suffering. After all, it's been 75 years—get used to it!
So I won't risk the image of my loved ones, in fear they are used in these kinds of depravity. I will say, though, the world lost a young footballer. Lost a female writer and an aspiring ballerina. Lost a kind father, who was also a great cook, and a loving mother that enjoyed sewing and other types of handicraft art. Lost a math teacher and a child that wanted to become one.
People think Israel is testing new weapons on them. There's civilians arriving at the hospital with severe burns, which they thought was from white phosphorus, but apparently the pattern is different from the one caused by white phosphorus. It's widely believed Israel tests weapons in Palestinians.
Jeff Halper, author of War Against the People, a book on Israel's arms and surveillance technology industries, said: "Israel has kept the occupation because it's a laboratory for weapons."
They've ran out of drinkable water and the "aid" Biden sent was only for the South of Gaza and no fuel, for hospitals, was allowed in. Many shelves in the supermarket are empty. She said many are convinced that if they don't die from the bombing, they'll die from starvation or dehydration, or whatever disease will develop from the dirty water they're drinking.
Told me all people do now is pray, cry and die. Told me she hopes West Bank is spared. Told her Israel bombed a mosque in West Bank and dozens of Palestinians in West Bank are being murdered by settlers, so she bided me goodbye.
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