Special Delivery

So I have had a cold since Tuesday, October 26th (that's 8 days for anyone counting...), and I am REALLY FREAKIN' TIRED OF IT!
I'm done!
Move on!
I have served my time in aches and chills and sneezes and sinus headaches, so germs:

GET LOST!

The real kicker is that a week before I fell ill, I made a large pot of homemade chicken soup for two friends that were sick, one downtown and one in Brooklyn, and delivered* them to the various parties without touching them or anything else, and then used hand sanitizer as soon as I left.

So me getting sick? Totally Not Fair.

The soup

Fortunately I had made so much soup that I had some leftover for myself to defrost when I fell ill.

The soup consisted of:

chicken stock, homemade

2 chicken breasts poached for 20 min in the stock, then removed and shredded

carrot/celery/onion trifecta, sautéed in a bit of olive oil

cubed butternut squash, roasted in the oven

pasta

salt

thyme
dill

and of course, love.

However, as I am still feeling less than stellar, I can't be bothered to tell you proportions or order of operations, or really anything useful, because I did the whole thing off the cuff anyway.

But I took a picture of my soup.

So I posted it.

It was tasty.

Tho clearly lacking magical restorative powers...

Now I must get healthy as my in-laws arrive tomorrow to watch their son (my hubs) run in the NYC Marathon on Sunday, and I need to not be coughing and sneezing on them.

So send good vibes, people.

Get 'er done.

*The Rock 'n Roll Gourmet does not actually have a delivery service, so don't get your hopes up...