What do you cook when someone has a cold?

So as the title suggests, i am after other peoples get well recipies.

I always cook a chicken and veg soup with plenty of herbs, garlic and lemon juice.

What does everyone else do?

Yep, chicken soup here too

Tom Yum soup is great as it opens all the mucus membranes and helps clear the head. You can make it yourself fairly easy but you have to like chilli because its basicaly a chilli soup.

You can buy the paste in the supermarket, boil up some broth (veg or chicken broth is best) add a tbls of paste and add boc choy, thick cut onion, bean srouts....and you can add a bit of calamari if you want some meat in there...even chicken strips if you prefer.

Its great for clearing blocked sinus's. Kids may not like it though.

pizza

for me its stewed tomatoes on toast hehe, my mum has made this for us as kids and I loved it, so now when ever I am not well thats what I have, my nana said it has good healing effects too becuase its full of vitamins etc

I always saute a batch of marinara seafood mix with loads of garlic, squeeze of lemon and add it into a huge can of ready made tomato soup, sprinkle on whatever fresh herbs I have. I crave this meal whenever I'm coming down with something (I think it must be the combo of zinc from the seafood and antioxidants from the tomato that does it). YUM!

Good Ol' Chicken Noodle and Vegetable Soup. My all time Fav! AND, I've not met anyone who hasn't had a cold cured by my soup yet! ;)

Chicken Congee :) It's a fave here with the sickies, or Vietnamese Chicken & Rice Noodle Soup.

THanks Guys,

Well i have stuck to the fav this time, doing chicken and veg soup (with noodles) but will add a bit of chilli to see how that works in... MJ is the one with the cold, so i cant make it too spicy, but she does like spicy food.

Lol - pizza, that wont be happening, i know that it might make you fel better in some way, but isnt going to help

MD - marinara sounds great, might make it tomorrow.

Rouge what is chicken congee? will google it later, but i know that you are pretty good when it comes to food, so would prefer to b pointed to a recipe instead of trial and error!

Thanks guys

i'm with peg, any kind of hot thai chilli soup. it'll blow the cold right out of you :D

Hope MJ gets better soon Sammie!

Thanks MG - poor little thing is streaming with it, she has more snot than i have ever seen, and i have seen a lot of snot in my time!
least she is not grumpy!

I make a Mexican Tortilla soup, which is like a chicken soup with a little kick... or I make chicken n' corn soup.

Tonight (I'm recovering from a cold myself) I'm having a curried vegetable soup with lentils.

Gosh, I think I need a serving of all of these (not pizza though) I have a horrendous cold that just won't go away. Time to get DP off to the shops for some ingredients!

got the sniffles too....some nice chicken and sweetcorn soup...i've got a recipe that tastes like it's from a chinese restaurant..

Well ladies, you'll be pleased to know this thread inspired me and I have chicken & veg soup cooking away on the stove as I type! mmmmmmmmmmmmm......

I'm hoping someone can hook me up with a recipe or link to a thread with one pref one that you boil a whole chicken for, or one that cab be done in a SC.

I'm not as lazy as I sound, honest I'm just pressed for time and on iPhone ;)