If I feel up to it; if my family is sick; if friends are sick; if I have time; THIS is what I make to make us feel better/nuke the damn cold from orbit. After all, that’s the only way to be sure.
Garlic Soup
this make A LOT — use a BIG pan
6 whole heads of garlic, diced up into coarse chunks
1 large onion — white or yellow. Purple makes the soup an odd color, diced
2 heaping teaspoons of (dry) crushed red pepper
About four cups of broth (generally I use chicken but can use veggie broth for those what don’t eat the meat)
2 cups baby carrots (or carrot coins)
2 cups diced up chicken boobs (again, can use firm tofu that’s been pan fried to a golden brown here if you wish to stay away from meat — also, can use canned chicken boobs if you are having those high fever hallucinations that cause the frozen chicken to leap out of the freezer and come after you with a spoon. Of course, that last bit might only be something that happens to me. YMMV)
1 can Ro-Tel
Peppermill pepper with mixed peppercorns (white, black and red)
1 – 2 tsp sage (personally, I like 2 heaping tsp of this — but not everyone likes sage like I do)
1 large bay leaf
Olive oil
1 large bag of the No Yolk wide wiggle noodles
Giant pan on stovetop.
Heat on medium high.
Oil into giant pan.
Saute the onions until they are semi-transparent.
Stir in the garlic. Keep it movin’, Gramma*. When you can smell the garlic cooking — this is a distinctive aroma, you will know it — add the chicken. Stir them little chunks around and let them get good and coated by the onion and garlic-flavored oil.
Add the broth, the Ro-Tel, the carrots and the rest of the spices. Put a lid on the pan and turn the heat down to medium/medium-low.
Let this simmer for about 2 hours or so.
Add the noodles and cook according to package directions for doneness/and denteness — some people like their noodles sorta limp and some like em a bit toothy.
Eat hot. The pepper(s), garlic and onion are all lovely ways to take out anything that might be infecting your system. Plus, you can imagine tiny little mushroom clouds in your lymph nodes as you eat it — BA-WHOOM! Dead little bacteria/virii!
* – quote from a Foxworthy show. Don’t ask me — my brain is a useless dump of random quotes.
The Process 
That looks delicious!
Whenever any of us are sick, I make one of my recipes that includes Oil of Oregano in it and add just a little extra.
It is very good, even when you aren’t sick. Fairly spicy! But somehow, it tastes even better when you are sick.
I guess because you are sick/congested and you get something that you can actually *taste*, it just hits the spot.
That sounds amazing… even if you don’t have a cold. Damn, I’m going to try this.
It is quite tasty — spicy, so forewarned.
When you are sick, you can actually feel it cutting through the congestion with little capsicum power saws.
Added it to Recipe memories, because garlic, and yum.
And easy-peasy to make. I like it ’cause I can run 100+ degree fever and slap it together. I probably look a bit odd, muttering to myself and fending off the frozen, spoon wielding chickens, though. 😀
OOH! this sounds tasty, even when I’m not sick. And you called ’em chicken boobs.
I always call ’em chicken boobs, lol!
It is quite tasty, a bit on the spicy side, and like super powered against nasty bacterial stuffs.
For the other end of the sick-soup spectrum, I, I can post my Mom’s potato soup recipe – which is the ultimate in comfort, “heb me i gob a code”, feel betters.
oooh! tater soup. Yes.
I’m a fan of “OW! OW! OW! WHOA THAT WAS SPICY HOT!” when I have colds or respiratory stuff going on. Nothing like it to simply murder what ails ya, and things like Wasabi in large doses seem as mild as a novelty candy mint. Dave’s Insanity sauce goes in everything. I tend to eat more thai food with “five stars, please! and make it hurt!” when I’m sick.
Thai food. Om nom nom nom nom….
I crave good Musman Gai. CRAVE.
At any rate, I will post Mom’s tater soup recipe tomorrow. It too, is fairly simple. It is also, quite simply one of the best potato soups I have ever had.
I’ve got the musman base at home and bought peanuts and coconut milk the other day so it was all there when I had teh cravinz. Next time we can sit down for dinner together, I can bring it over. Lovelovelovemusman.
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Damn. That is serious.
It is. It is, indeed.
Oh, I should probably add that you *should not* use elephant garlic. That adds a weird, musky bitter flavor that I don’t like. Use plain, ole garlic like you see in the store.
If you are feeling particularly like you don’t want to mess with garlic – you can use a jar of pre-diced. That takes up about 1/2 – 3/4 of the jar, though.
Garlic. Pepper. Noodles.
This soup is relevant to my interests.