Blog Entry: ARC giveaway and Sick Soup
First of all, some excellent news: this month's giveaway of A Most Improper Magick is being held by The Story Siren, a fabulous book blogger. You can enter to win an Advance Readers' Copy of the book any time until next Friday, February 19th. Good luck!
(Sadly, this one is only open to US readers, but I promise there will be more opportunities for international readers in other months.)
In less excellent news, by 7pm last night I was feverish and miserable with the same bug MrD has been suffering through. Thank goodness, he finally started to perk up at about the same time (the worst part of the virus hopping smoothly from one person to the next!), but since he was still having a hard time breathing in his sleep because of his leftover cold symptoms, I only ended up getting about 4-1/2 hours of sleep spread across the night...so, well. As you can imagine, I'm still feeling pretty miserable.
Luckily, Patrick leapt into the breach and, last night, when I couldn't imagine eating ANYTHING because I was so clogged up and sick, he made up a recipe for French onion soup. A few weeks ago my friend Jenn talked on Twitter about her Sick Soup. French onion soup is definitely my Sick Soup! It was absolutely perfect - comfort and heat and nutrition all in one, and it even cleared my head out for a while.
The only issue is that Patrick can't figure out what extra herbs to add. He made a very basic recipe, and to my cold-clogged senses, it was BLISS (I ate it again for lunch today, and again, it made me feel MUCH better for about an hour afterward), but to his healthy tastebuds, it was definitely missing something. Hmm...
Here's the recipe:
-4 large onions, chopped
-6 cloves garlic, chopped
Fry the onions and garlic in a ton of olive oil. Add water, vegetable stock, and a little bit of salt and simmer until done.
What do you guys think? What herbs would be a good addition?
Or, alternately: what's your personal Sick Soup?
(And now my brain is finished working for the day, so I'm going to lie down again.)