persian noodle soup. my mom makes it with thicc noodles, caramelized onions, spinach, lentils... sometimes beans, sometimes turnips... she puts plain yogurt in there, which... I don't get, it's a Persian thing I guess, but yeah, it's good soup.
with oyster mushrooms, kidney beans, spinach, parsley, ginger, aromatics. sometimes with small potatos, lentils, leek. i eat it with jasmin rice (cooked separately) and a good dollop of sambal (peteh, manis or a smaller amount if i use rawit or ulek)
shoutout my moroccan stepmom for putting me on to harira. perfect warm soup with nice spices. basically just lentils, chickpeas, tomatoes, and onions but super tasty, filling, and goes great with some flatbread
I feel like this place isn't about people but about recommendations, right? forget the influencer, forget the individual, just browse and talk about cool shit and whoever says something good, that's good. that's what I liked about reddit, back when I actually liked reddit. I haven't found many people I want to follow, and I'm not really looking.
for a while, when I wanted something expensive, I would think to myself, "oh, let me just look for a cheaper version of it." I end up settling for something that isn't good in any of the ways that made me want the expensive version. Throw that out. You can get fantastic pieces for cheap, you can thrift a wardrobe you love, but if you're trying to find a cheap copy of something expensive, it's not going to work.
