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This is a lazy one, and very garlic-and-onion, so good for sick days and comes out quite well.

1) Go buy a precooked roasted chicken. (For more than 4 people, buy two and make more soup.)

Buy also some boneless skinless chicken thighs and or breasts and a head or two of garlic and 2-3 onions, and a packet of egg noodles (unless you want potatoes or rice, in which case get them). Quantities should be based on how much you like each of these things, really -- you want to put about 4 pounds total of food into one chicken carcass worth of stock, but the proportions are totally about your own tastes.

Grab also some celery and carrots.

2) Eat the chicken, possibly with crusty bread. No cooking!

Then put the carcass into lots of water with some bay leaves and some pepper and herbs de provence if you have it or any random vegetable scraps you have handy and leave it to simmer it overnight while you go to bed with a book and lots of ginger ale.

3) The next day, strain the stock and discard the carcass, etc.

4) Quarter or slice the onions, peel the garlic cloves, wash and slice up the celery and carrots, and cut up the chicken. Put it all in the pot. Bring it to a boil and leave it to simmer while you nap.

5) An hour before you want to eat it, add the noodles, rice, or potatoes, along with mushrooms or any less sturdy green veggies you want in this. You can dump in a bit of white wine if you have it around and like it, at this point. You will also want to add a bit of salt at this time. Bring it to a boil again and then let it go back to simmer. In an hour, possibly a bit sooner, it will be done.

6) Eat it until it's gone or you feel better.

I basically followed this, except I forgot to buy other chicken so I pulled the meat off the carcass and saved it, and threw it into the soup instead of eating it separately. also I added useful amounts of lemon, ginger, and cayenne pepper. it was awesome :D

Glad you liked it, and that you're feeling better.

I don't have a chicken soup recipe, but my favourite cold/flu remedy is this:
take a cafetiere (or a French press I think you chaps call them? one of these anyway and into it put
*1 large lemon, squeezed thoroughly then drop the halves/quarters in
*1 half inch cubed piece of ginger grated finely
*1 small red chili, deseeded and chopped finely
*2 cloves of garlic chopped finely (if you really can't stand it use one clove, but it's really important and you can barely taste it!)

pour on boiling water and leave for 5 minutes to steep, then strain, pour in to mugs and add honey to taste

you can add more or less chili and ginger to taste, but as with the garlic, they're all really important and good for you - the stronger the better! This and a few asprin will cure almost anything

hope you all feel better soon

(Ooh, can I also add to that, adding the honey in this particular case is actually a very good idea as honey is a natural antiseptic? ^^)

I definitely do this for myself when I'm sick, but it's a bit too much for some people, hence the soup (which is also good for when your house is across campus from the dining hall and nobody wants to walk all the way to dinner). but you inspired/reminded me to add lemon, ginger, and cayenne pepper to the soup, which was a great success. thank you!! :D

I'm sorry that everyone is getting sick. :-(

And I'll see if I can find any chicken soup recipes for you ... and I'll post another comment with them!

This one is veggie and it's pretty good! It serves probably 4, depending on how much you dish out.

2 to 3 Tbsp. olive oil
2 carrots, peeled and diced
2 carrots, peeled and diced
1 medium onion, finely diced
2 stalks celery, diced
2 bay leaves
6 cups vegetable broth
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 lb. faux chicken, torn into bite-size chunks (I like Morningstar Farms)
2 Tbsp. fresh parsley, minced
1/2 lb. eggless flat noodles (try Mueller’s “dumpling” noodles)
Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat.

Add the carrots, parsnip, onion, and celery and cook until soft, about 5 minutes.

Add the bay leaves, veggie broth, salt, and pepper to the pot, raise the heat, and bring to a boil. Add the faux-chicken chunks, parsley, and noodles, return the soup to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minutes, until the noodles are tender.

Remove the bay leaves and serve.

Hope everyone feels better soon. You know I can't cook, so I def don't have a recipe for you, I just go to George Webb's when I need soup... :)

Chicken and sweetcorn soup:

Take 2 pre-cooked chicken breasts, diced, and cover them with about three tablespoons of sherry and one teaspoon of ground ginger.

Make a pint of chicken stock, bring it to the boil, and add two teaspoons of cornflour dissolved in a bit of water, stir until thickened. Add the chicken, and about half a cup to a full cup of sweetcorn, depending on how much you like sweetcorn ;).

Generally, to decorate it, you'd add one egg white (no yolk) to the boiling soup and stir rapidly to create a feathered effect, but that can be omitted if it's going to make people feel worse :).

It's my cheer-up soup for all occasions even if I did once spill it on my hand fresh from the pan and gave myself a burn severe enough to warrant a degree ^^. Can't remember which one, mind.

1 qt carton of chicken broth
1 pk rice noodles
1 can/vacuum pack of chicken (or leftover chicken, if you have it)
1 T soy sauce
Fresh cilantro and/or basil
Thai hot sauce

Heat the chicken broth in a pan. Add the rice noodles and cook until tender. Add the chicken and soy sauce. Simmer until the chicken is hot.

Pour into bowls. Let everyone season theirs to their liking with the hot sauce, more soy sauce, and herbs.

The hot sauce is really good for clearing out your sinuses. :)

I have fancier recipes, but when I'm sick I don't want to spend a lot of time cooking.

This one is really simple...

Really big pot/dutch oven
Add Extra Virgin Olive Oil until bottom of pot is covered.
Add onion diced and minced garlic from a jar until onions are "cooked"
Add Swanson chicken broth (preferably organic) until pot filled half way. It could be 1 or 2 cartons but they are resealable so cool.
Drop in frozen chicken strips. Cook until chicken is done. If you feel the need, pull out the chicken and cut on a cutting board then put back in pot.
Drop in cans of whatever veggies you like, juices and all.
I usually go for black beans, olives, tomatoes, heart of palm, and irish potatoes. Or be really lazy and use frozen veg.
Add every "hot" spice you own. Chili, etc.
Cook until the veggies are done.
Voila!

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Easy Thai Chicken Soup

Lazy chicken soup