I sort of thought I’d avoid all the family ailments that come along with having a toddler, because our little one isn’t in daycare at the moment. Ha! I was so naive, in so many ways. So many many ways. Turns out thatstory times and music classes andĀ Target all have lots of those lovely little germs and our little girl is picking them up right and left. Therefore my guy and I are subsequently picking them up right and left.
I’m all for powering up her immune system, so, you know, it’s all good when they’re just back-to-back minor colds. And us adults are learning to live life with a perpetual case of the sniffles as well. Goodness knows it’s all worth it, 100 gazillion times over.
When a cold really gets us down, though, nothing hits the spot like a piping-hot bowl of brothy soup. I have a chicken noodle/just plain noodle soup I like to make, but lately I’ve been turning to this one instead: rosemary white bean soup.
I don’t know if it’s the nice light vegetable broth, the good strong hit of rosemary, or the nice bits of garlic with its medicinal goodness, but this soup works some great chicken-noodle-soup-like magic on a bad cold.
It also works magic on a nice, chilly evening with some crusty buttered bread alongside – even when everyone’s perfectly healthy. Or as lunch on a blustery afternoon. Or packed in a thermos to sip after a long walk on a cold beach. I haven’t done that, but it certainly sounds marvelous, so maybe I should (well, maybe after I get over this dang nagging cough).