の is what's called a "particle", and it really has two jobs, both of which I'll show here. The most common meaning is that it's basically short for もち もの (持ち 物) "held-thing" (belongings, possessions).

In Japanese, they don't have different forms for "dog's, his, your" etc. versus "dog, he, you". So they'd say "you belonging house" to mean "your house; this house is your belonging". So の adds this meaning too, except Japanese can also say that a whole part of a sentence "belongs" to another part of the sentence. I'll give some examples.

日本 の 東京
ニホン の トーキョー
"Japan (belonging) Tokyo"
= Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo belongs to (the country of ) Japan.

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wanted to make soba noodles to see if i can eat them without getting sick... here's the recipe i'm trying, we'll see if it turns out any good:

— 3 dl buckwheat flour
— 1 1/3 dl water
— 2 T solid coconut oil; melted
— 2 T arrowroot powder
— 1 t xanthan gum

mix in a bowl. it'll be a bit too sticky at first but after a few minutes once the flour's actually soaked up the water, it'll stop being so. at some point roll it out and cut it into noodles and boil the noodles.