What do you cook for someone who’s poorly sick?  Last night I made our favourite comfort food, as H isn’t well.  He has a bad cold / sinus infection, poor lamb.  (Actually, is it appropriate to call a veggie ‘poor lamb’?!).  Anyway, I made veggie sausages, peas, mash and gravy (with carrots thrown into the mash for a bit of added goodness). This is our ‘chicken soup’, made when we either need cheering up or are unwell.  (Or let’s face it, when we just fancy an embarrassingly huge mound of mash!)

Tonight I’m making Pad Thai (Delia’s recipe from her veggie cookbook, great recipe, I can recommend it) to see if a liberal dash of chilli will help shift the germs.

When I was ill in hospital a few years ago with what turned out to be glandular fever, I remember being collected by my parents and taken back to their house.  After the absolutely dire hospital food, which I barely touched anyway, my mum’s clear vegetable broth was heaven in a bowl, simple, healing, warming and best of all, made with TLC!

I think it’s the simple things that we love when we’re ill.  Basic, unfussy, comforting in its simplicity.  Maybe there’s a cookbook in that – ‘Food for sickies’ – I’m open to offers… :-)

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