Comfort Food

My recently discovered comfort drink after a walk on a cold day, is to make cocoa using hot water, then adding a slug of double cream. I drink it like that, but you could add sweetener if you wanted.
I also make soup in batches (spinach, cream of celery and chicken) and freeze it so I can just heat it up when I'm feeling tired, ill or sorry for myself.
If I feel really tragic I eat 85% chocolate dipped in cream! Someone recently told me she makes a sandwich with two squares of 85% chocolate with nut butter spread in between too!

I like a thick chicken soup almost stew when in need of a bit of TCL. Chicken thighs, white wine, thyme, garlic, celery, fennel and stock or stockpot simmered or cooked in a slow cooker until chicken is properly cooked. Towards the end add in a lot of cauliflower (frozen is fine) and cook until cauli is done. Remove chicken from pot and take meat off the bone. Blend / process or whiz up the veg soup mix then put back in the shredded chicken plus a drained can of cannellini beans, adjust seasoning and re-heat and serve.

Instead of orange juice I find hot water with a few squirts of lemon calms my throat.

If I don't have a prepared soup, I'm not beyond making one out of a chicken stock cube (I add lots of garlic and ginger to it, plus plenty of mushrooms because I like them and always have some in the fridge, and it's ready to eat in 10 minutes).

I spread almond butter or tahini onto a square of 85% chocolate almost every day, nothing to do with feeling tragic!

Hope you're better soon @trinity0097 !