sick food

Been sick the last few days. No temperature, just really really tired and the whole sore throat, stuffy/runny nose, sinus headache and all that good stuff. I don't think I recall having a cold which knocks me out the way this one has been.

"Waie sick" (likes to eat) as I am, I even cancelled a much looked-forward to dinner with some friends of mine so I can stay home to rest.

I spent the entire weekend craving for nothing but soup-type comfort food. I ended up making a large pot of vegetable chowder last night and a beef and vegetable barley soup a night or two before that. The barley soup was pretty easy. I started out heating up some vegetable barley soup from TJ's. Something seems to be off ... so I decided to add a can of beef stew to it ... ummm ... much better.

The chowder started out as a clam chowder, but I only noticed that I don't have any clams at home after I got the thing started. I decided to add some corn to it and make it a corn chowder. The outcome wasn't bad. It was actually pretty good, except that it seems to be missing something. Yeah, I know ... clams!

Other old stand-by "sick food" was me has always been either "jook", which is a thick rice soup, or oatmeal. The jook, I usually like. Mom used to give us all kinds of other goodies to go with it when we used to have it for breakfast or lunch (roasted peanuts, pickled cabbage ...). Somehow, the oatmeal was not quite the same. Don't get me wrong, mom did they well. It was sweetened with sugar, usually made creamy with milk and curiously enough, an egg drop. It was good, but somehow, probably because our family don't usually eat a whole lot of oatmeal unless we were sick, I've always associated oatmeal with being sick; thus never really care of it much.

Well, off to the store I go for some clams so I can have some proper clam chowder.