Cooking for the sick, by the sick
May. 2nd, 2011 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tuftearsMental note to self: rotini pasta swells up like whoa when one cooks it.
Anyway: I first noted my sore throat a week and a half ago - not the way I wanted to start my weekend, but I quickly adapted my cooking plans.
No chicken stirfry and spinach quiche - instead, I threw what I had into the crockpot and made a tropical turkey soup, with the last of my peach-pineapple salsa, some leftover chunks of pineapple, Thai red curry paste, plus carrots and onions, plus a couple cups of rice near the end. Taste-testing it proved a bit problematic, since I was having trouble tasting things, but I wound up with a fairly sweet'n'spicy soup.
For breakfasts, I took the easy way of Campbell's chicken-and-noodle soups, but I added a chicken-apple sausage, more noodles in the form of whole-wheat spaghetti, and mixed vegetables, which got me two servings out of each can. (which is good because one can of that soup has 78% of your RDA in sodium)
Next up: Thai chicken curry. I'd made this before, but this time I was prepared and also bought a loaf of filone bread to sop it up and cut the spices. Tasted great!
Last night I made turkey chili - pretty standard stuff, really, ground turkey, carrots, onions, pepper strips - and today I took a break from the chicken noodle soup routine, by cooking together two cans of low-sodium V-8 juice, some chicken stock, more mixed veggies and that chicken-apple sausage that shows up in so much of my cooking, and some multigrain rotini pasta. Less sodium by a mile, and it tastes all right. V-8 juice also turns out to make a good tomato soup all by itself, if you just heat it in the microwave.
My doctor's appointment will finally come around today too, so hopefully this sinus infection is on its way out - I'm running out of useful things to cook that are kind to a sore throat!
Anyway: I first noted my sore throat a week and a half ago - not the way I wanted to start my weekend, but I quickly adapted my cooking plans.
No chicken stirfry and spinach quiche - instead, I threw what I had into the crockpot and made a tropical turkey soup, with the last of my peach-pineapple salsa, some leftover chunks of pineapple, Thai red curry paste, plus carrots and onions, plus a couple cups of rice near the end. Taste-testing it proved a bit problematic, since I was having trouble tasting things, but I wound up with a fairly sweet'n'spicy soup.
For breakfasts, I took the easy way of Campbell's chicken-and-noodle soups, but I added a chicken-apple sausage, more noodles in the form of whole-wheat spaghetti, and mixed vegetables, which got me two servings out of each can. (which is good because one can of that soup has 78% of your RDA in sodium)
Next up: Thai chicken curry. I'd made this before, but this time I was prepared and also bought a loaf of filone bread to sop it up and cut the spices. Tasted great!
Last night I made turkey chili - pretty standard stuff, really, ground turkey, carrots, onions, pepper strips - and today I took a break from the chicken noodle soup routine, by cooking together two cans of low-sodium V-8 juice, some chicken stock, more mixed veggies and that chicken-apple sausage that shows up in so much of my cooking, and some multigrain rotini pasta. Less sodium by a mile, and it tastes all right. V-8 juice also turns out to make a good tomato soup all by itself, if you just heat it in the microwave.
My doctor's appointment will finally come around today too, so hopefully this sinus infection is on its way out - I'm running out of useful things to cook that are kind to a sore throat!
