Sick Days Soup

As a kid I would fake sick just to stay home. I hated school. There are lots of reasons for that, most I still harbor as someones els fault, yet we are all responsible for our own happiness in life. Mine was just found at home, drawing.

Sick days now are just more work, often my day is still going on, just in a has of cold fog. I log a way at the task at hand, falling behind and dreaming of sleep.

When I kids stay home from school, they miss school. I would love to say this is my doing. Only my kids are responsible for our own happiness, just as I am.

My daughter is home with a fervor and cough, the same one that both the boy have gone throw. The baby is staring to be better after a bout with tow ear infections on top of a cold that make you cough up a lung. I am grateful this is only the second full fledge illness of school year. Lat week you would have not seen me puttering around the house, it was a being much more akin to a crazy person. There is nothing that makes you worry more than a baby with a fervor that will not brake. And what did all this worry do, well it did not heal a sick kid. But It did let the same cold in. Ya' I doped my iron gard of immunity, and the cold set it.

So what do I do on sick day.. Make a big pot of chilly

Sick Day Chilly

2 cans diced green chillies in juice

2 cans Black Beens with liquid

2 cans Garbanzo Beens with liquid

1 onion diced

4 cloves garlic minced

4 stalks of celery chopped

4-5 carrots chopped

1 can corn

½ red bell pepper diced

½ green bell pepper diced

2 cans diced tomatoes in juice

1 2/3 cups TVP

1 tsp cumin powder

4 tsp mild chilly powder

4 tab. Olive oil

1 cup water

Heat oil in a large soup pot.

Cook the onions, garlic, and chills in the the oil till tender, add spices.

Add diced veggies and cook down slightly.

Add all caned beens and veggies, TVP, and water.

Bring to a light boil and turn down to a simmer.

Let simmer for 15 to 20 mints, till veggies are tender.

I serve mine with grated cheese.

This is a large batch, and can be halved if you wish. I like making a lot, so it can be 2-3meals. Less work for me when I am feeling down. You can make this with dry beens, they are cheeper and less wast, but I take a few short cuts when I am sick.

To your health.

P.S. my daughters favourite food when sick is miso.