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If you got hit with the flu, what soup did you fix?

Posted on 2/3/26 at 5:50 pm
Posted by deltadummy
Member since Mar 2025
2018 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 5:50 pm
Got hit Thursday, I guess. Woke up Friday and felt like a truck hit me. Spent three days on the couch/in the bed.

But, did have a handy supply of beef stock I'd made using a pressure cooker. Seared some beef pieces, cooked some onion and garlic, added in the stock and chopped potatoes with seasoning, added the beef later with some cream, and it was damn good. Made it three times this weekend.

What's your fav flu soup?
Posted by NOLA1128
Member since Dec 2011
3859 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 6:09 pm to
“Italian Penicillin”
Posted by Duane Dibbley
Red Dwarf
Member since Nov 2011
1757 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 7:28 pm to
Posted by Kingshakabooboo
Member since Nov 2012
1697 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 8:48 pm to
quote:

Italian Penicillin”


Made some last week. Wasn’t sick. Just thought it sounded good for a cold week.

Posted by AlwysATgr
Member since Apr 2008
20490 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 8:52 pm to
Smoked chicken noodle with a splash of LA Crystals.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
19721 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:13 pm to
Jewish Penicillin AKA Chicken Soup
Posted by Rip N Lip
Zambodia
Member since Jul 2019
7295 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:29 pm to
Tried this and it was very good. Would make a bigger recipe next time. I put cheese on top and top brown in toaster oven.

https://denvergreenchili.com/recipes/soups-and-chilis/spicy-onion-soup-with-sausage/
This post was edited on 2/3/26 at 10:31 pm
Posted by magildachunks
Member since Oct 2006
35383 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:56 pm to
Wish Rama was still around. Their Lemongrass soup was the greatest soup ever for illness.

shite worked better than Sudafed for clearing out mucus.


If I was ever given 3 wishes by a genie, the first wish would be for that recipe.
Posted by CMBears1259
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2005
5015 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 11:21 pm to
Avgolemono (Greek lemon chicken) soup is my favorite, sick or not.

Will usually pick up a quart of it from Zorba's with some pita bread and nurse it for a couple of days while trying to kick the flu.
Posted by SpotCheckBilly
Member since May 2020
8397 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 7:04 am to
Tortilla soup
Posted by Raoul Stimulato
Hale Bopp Comet
Member since Sep 2022
2147 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 7:49 am to
Lemon rice, dill, chicken, spinach LINK

This has been my goto for a couple years now. Herb-bright and delicious.
This post was edited on 2/4/26 at 7:50 am
Posted by wesfau
Member since Mar 2023
1992 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 7:55 am to
Tom Yum from my local Thai joint. It's fricking magic.
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
45020 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 8:42 am to
Arroz caldo, especially now that my local asian market carries calamansi juice.

Wife is feeling under the weather today, so making it for dinner tonight.
Posted by deltadummy
Member since Mar 2025
2018 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:19 am to
quote:

Lemon rice, dill, chicken, spinach LINK

This has been my goto for a couple years now. Herb-bright and delicious.


Hmm. Might be making that tonight.
Posted by Harry Caray
Denial
Member since Aug 2009
20693 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:37 am to
This stuff from Costco might have saved my life in December

Posted by SpotCheckBilly
Member since May 2020
8397 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:55 am to
Sometimes, just a take-out Hot and Sour Soup from the closest Chinese place hits the spot.
Posted by Stadium Rat
Metairie
Member since Jul 2004
10127 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:03 am to
My wife always wants Egg Drop Soup when she's sick. Quick and easy if you have chicken broth on hand.
Posted by BlueRabbit
Member since Apr 2025
160 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:34 am to
quote:

Wish Rama was still around. Their Lemongrass soup was the greatest soup ever for illness. shite worked better than Sudafed for clearing out mucus. If I was ever given 3 wishes by a genie, the first wish would be for that recipe.


Kay the Thai food lady at The Artist Loft on Saturday was at Rama for years. She has a lemongrass soup occasionally. I’m guessing that might be it?
Posted by Dixie2023
Member since Mar 2023
4799 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 12:51 pm to
Chicken noodle or Chicken Tortilla soup. If anyone is in Metairie, the newer Chinese restaurant called Bamboo has a soup that will clear anyone’s sinuses. I think it’s the egg drop soup. I had a taste of it from someone else and it was super spicy.
Posted by bdevill
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Mar 2008
12188 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:43 pm to

My friend Marisa's grandmother is a Holocaust survivor and this is her Jewish Penicillin recipe.

Jewish Penicillin

1 whole organic free range chicken, cut into 8 pieces and salted and peppered to taste.
Put chicken pieces in a large pot of water with an onion cut into 1/4's and a bunch of sliced green onions.
Boil the chicken for 8 hrs on a low boil. Skim the fat off the top of the water and skin the chicken pieces, leaving skin on the drumsticks and wings.
Add: two bunches of chopped carrots, a bunch of sliced leeks, chopped celery greens, couple stalks of chopped celery, dill, parsley, grated ginger, couple of bouillon cubes, turnip, zucchini, and anything else you have available that's fresh and healthy.. Boil the soup for an hour and add a couple cloves of chopped garlic and cayenne. Simmer for about 15 minutes longer on low and serve.
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