Healing soup

[johanna_hypatia]

"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food."
--Hippocrates

This is what I've been making every day since Saturday when I came down with a cold with flu-like symptoms. Miso, shiitake, ginger root, garlic, and cayenne are reputed to add many health benefits. Please note: I made this soup intensely spicy for myself because I can

Comments

[america_divine]

Heavy doses of garlic and asafoetida usually work well for me in driving out the flu-like sort of thing. I make somehting similar to this recipe... I'm eager to try the chickpea one you also posted recently... We do eat meat, but not much--other protein sources figure more prominently (at least in theory... since I started working a regular schedule, I'm much less likely to cook or eat properly... I used to cook every day)... always looking for good (and new) chick pea recipes...

[cmcmck]

Sorry to hear you're feeling a bit icky- there seems to be a lot of it about! I guess this is a veggie substitute for that old Jewish standby- chicken soup :o)

That can't be right

[invisione]

1.5 teaspoons cayenne? Surely that's a typo for tablespoons? ;)

Re: That can't be right

[johanna_hypatia]

See, folks, what'd I tell you! LOL