I made this over the weekend . I skewed the recipe a little . http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017117-beef-bone-broth . I’ve got a coupe gallons . Simmered it for 16 hours and strained it . Wow what a flavorful stock . I’m freezing a bunch . I hope I never have to use it for a cold . But would work just fine .
I didn’t know there was an Old European in Pullman too, they’re down to one in Spokane. And yes, they do a good breakfast!
I caught some kind of a flu last Thursday. I got much better by Sunday.
Anyway, I was making soup Thursday night just because I knew I would feel much worse by Friday, and I did.
So, what do you like to eat and/or cook when you are sick?
I like to eat soft and liquid-ly food like soup when I am sick, particularly chicken soup, but I like other soup as well. In term of what I like to make, I just want to make something very simple when I am sick. Unlike my previous episodes with food poisoning, I was able to eat any food this time around (just normal flu). I ate a lot of toasted turkey melted cheese sandwich, just because it was so easy to make and I had the ingredients already.
You?
Maybe you can get some ideas in this (near identical) thread over on the HC board.
Chicken noodle, toast with a little butter & Ginger Ale. The combination goes back to my childhood.
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Sorry you are sick! Hope you will be better soon. I think there’s already are similar topics.
Take care all, seems like seasonal change and many are sick.
Food for cold and dental problem gathered from all the posts in HO.
Ginger ale, chicken soup, potato chips, lemon-ginger tea
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Nothing new or original here: I’m a genetically programmed devotee of chicken soup… Before starting a low carb lifestyle, the chicken soup program was modified to jook/congee/porridge. Now I guess it would be cauliflower rice porridge 
I will have to add though that now that I am well over 2x the legal drinking age, if I have been dosing off and on all day and want to go to sleep at night, about 3 fingers worth of bourbon in a glass with 1 cube does the trick 
Ginger ale. I need to stock up some…
Oh, I missed that you also wrote ginger ale. Hmmm.
What makes me feel better is a large bowl of Beef Pho or Chicken Pho. Settles my body and allow me to sleep and recover. But as I recover I will make a pot of Chinese four herb soup with pork bones.
But anything hot will comfort you.
With a cold and exhausted beyond belief yet my stomach is ok i make my now signature “i’m sick and feel like $hit” soup- stupid easy, super fast, and ingredients can be found at any nyc corner bodega: one 20oz container original v8, half a can of drained rinsed white beans or chickpeas, juice of one lemon, and grated fresh ginger (always in my freezer), heat together and blend or not.
I also make and drink lots of miso broth for both a cold and upset stomach.
+1 for the hot tea lemon honey rum combo
My rather odd yet soothing craving when sick that reminds me of childhood is making a packet of instant brown sugar oatmeal but with lots of extra water which i then sip from a mug for a fragrant kind of oatmeal broth soup thing…
Ginger seems to have a settling effect on the stomach. My mom would pour it in a glass and let some of the fizz dissipate before she gave it to us. Now I prefer it with a little Canadian Club 
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I usually don’t keep ginger ale in the house. Does ginger beer have the same comforting effect?
Good question! I think it would for me
This reminded me that when I was little my mom would make some sort of warm drink with a packet of Jell-O. I loved it at the time, but now I’m not sure I could stomach it.
Here ya go:
thanks for the link - good read, I’m going to give it a try this winter!
I remember this subject coming up on the other board.
My answer is the same.
Pastina w/ butter and cheese.
Although, if I’m really stuffed up, a nice spicy Mexican meal with strong margaritas helps clear me up too.
