Thursday, December 16, 2010

sick.

we have caught the obligatory winter bug and are coughing up a storm. i feel terrible because our parents are in town and we're sharing a little house. hope they don't catch our colds..


meanwhile we've been ripping through our honey and lemons and cooking up batches of soup to help rehydrate and recover. also been using a lot more ginger in my cooking for that added zing. i also read that its a natural home remedy for colds so no harm trying. our go-to sick meal is chicken porridge. we'd cook up a HUGE pot of gingery, warm gooey porridge and eat it for all meals...

what do you do when you're sick?

17 comments:

  1. Aww... get well soon...
    Such coincidence that i threw a whole bunch of ginger into my soup yesterday too :)

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  2. make ginger tea for the colds...take old ginger (as in, very mature ginger), slice it roughly, stick it in a pot of water...boil, together with some brown sugar (the kind that you use for making Chinese desserts...not the same as regular brown sugar). drink...but don't drink too much as it make be heaty, and zits will start appearing!
    feel better soon!! xx

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  3. get well soon!
    i love white mushy porridge with canned olives and salted eggs when im under the weather! its my ultimate get-well food!

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  4. I crave for Crystal Jade porridge when I'm sick...
    Get well soon! Cold(temp)+ Cold(flu) doesn't sound good at all. :(

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  5. canned olives??? i've never tried that. but i could certainly do with some salted eggs now. yums...

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  6. hmmm.. crystal jade's porridge is SUPER good... :( missing it now!!!
    thanks babe!

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  7. thanks thanks!!! :) just started o a course of lozenges...

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  8. hmm.. sounds like something you can eat tang yuan in !! :)
    i'll have a hunt around for brown sugar in supermarket! thanks babe!

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  9. hahah!! :) i tell you're fated to be pals! :)

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  10. yeap, ginger chicken porridge. works a charm every single time. or fish porridge (with tons of ginger of course!)

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  11. all us asians and our porridges. i sometimes wonder what the other people in the world eat when they are ill!! :)

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  12. they come in pieces that are flat and rectangular, like flatbreads! good luck :)

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  13. is it the same as gula melaka? for malay desserts?
    i have my non-chefy mum here with me trying to figure it out! :)

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  14. that's exactly it! i knew there was a name for it!!!

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