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.
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!
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 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!
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!
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
What do you cook when someone has a cold?
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It's a fave here with the sickies, or Vietnamese Chicken & Rice Noodle Soup.
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