You can catch them in dark places like mausoleums - a cryptic code is the worst.
Posted by aiua (Member # 7825) on :
I have a jacket.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Cobbod? Oh common. Right on matey.
Get better soon!
(Bless you)
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
My favorite part of having a cold is the soup. I think I'll have some chicken soup right now.
Atchoo!
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
I find that chicken soup works wonders in these situations.
EDIT: Heh. I'm too slow. Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Now wipe off the screen first. Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
Then flog yourself with a soup noodle for spreading computer viruses.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
:updating macafee:
Gesundheit, Tante!!
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
רפאנו יי ונרפא, הושיענו ונושעה כי תהלתנו אתה. והעלה רפואה שלמה לכל מכותנו, כי אל מלך רופא נאמן ורחמן אתה. ברוך אתה יי, רופא חולי עמו ישראל.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
I rarely get sick. When I do, it's an uncommon cold.
--Enigmatic
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Soup is lovely! Except I don't eat meat, so I'd recommend a nice vegetable soup.
Salud!
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Mmm. I had a nice bowl of home made Chicken Soup with a nice spoonful of schug. I am feeling a little better.
Is anyone else out there sneezing?
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
Stubid codes. i hab the code that all by dorm has. we're all doobed for the whole terb.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Can anyone explain this to me?
Why is it that one nostril will be completely blocked up, and the other one is patent, and then they switch?
Atchoo!
I need more Kleenex. Although I suspect I may be allergic to Kleenex. Every time I hold one up to my nose, I sneeze.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I dunno, why do I only get headaches on one side of my head?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I have a sore throat. And an audition tomorrow.
Whopee!
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: Why is it that one nostril will be completely blocked up, and the other one is patent, and then they switch?
I remember reading someplace that we mainly only breathe with one nostril at a time (whether we're healthy or sick) and that they switch about every 4 hours. Of course, we're much more likely to notice this when our nose is all snotty.
Maybe your kleenex is dusty?
Salud, Tante. Feel better soon!
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Yea but then sometimes both nostrils get stuffed up and you can only breathe through your mouth, ick.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I'm just now starting to get over mine today. Blech, it was not fun.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Looks yummy. *takes matzoh balls and some chicken, but leaves alone the icky carrots*
Posted by aiua (Member # 7825) on :
I sniff Bengay and poof! no more stuffy nose!
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I've had a cold all week, I was at a horse show yesterday, eating lunch and whenever I took a bite I'd cough and sneeze then tears started to come down my face, this woman came over to try to do the heimlich, too bad nothing was stuck, i left the area in embarrassment.
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
Are they floaters?
'Cause nobody likes sinkers, right? Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by aiua: I sniff Bengay and poof! no more stuffy nose!
Huffing is bad for you. Don't huff Ben Gay.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by narrativium: Are they floaters?
'Cause nobody likes sinkers, right?
Wrong! (Although I do prefer the floaters, it's true.)
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I engineer my matzah balls to have the same specific gravity as the chicken broth, causing them to neither sink nor float, but to hover within the matrix of the broth.
This is secret of perfect knaidlach.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I have a theory about these hovering knaidlach of yours. As near as I can figure, you would need some sort of hydraulic device in each one (to compensate for added veggies and/or water boiling off as the soup cooks). Once there is one kind of micromachinery, I expect putting in little microphones or cameras should be simple.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Pshaw! Pseudoscience! That's MY specialty, rivka, not yours.
And there is no machinery involved in my knaidlach. I beat the eggs with a mixture of a light oil (canola or safflower) and olive oil. I beat until they are frothy. Then the matzah meal, salt, a little ginger. Then I add seltzer until the consistency is way too loose for matzah balls. Refrigerate, covered for maybe 45 minutes, or until the mixture is firm enough to work. Drop into boiling bouillon. They will pop up to the top, and once transferred into the chicken soup will find their equilibrium in the broth. If they sink, perhaps you need to taste the broth -- maybe you forgot to add salt.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I was also taught, over 10 years ago, that the secret is seltzer. However, I do not cook my knaidlach in a separate pot. And I never add salt! There's already meat in there, which brings lots of salt with it. (And I almost always get floaters.)
Anyway, I add salt to bread dough (you have to, or it doesn't rise properly) and little else.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Sometimes the soup needs salt, sometimes it doesn't. Mysterious are the ways of the kosher chicken. Aaron's chicken always seems saltier than Empire's does. In fact, I find it to be too salty for soup, even when I wash the chickens off before putting them in the pot.
The reason for the separate pot is that the knaidlach need to go into boiling liquid, and if you allow the chicken soup to boil, it goes all cloudy. For fluffy-tender knaidlach in crystal-clear soup, you need two pots.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I don't only put chicken in my soup. Beef/lamb/veal (and sometimes turkey) bits get in there too. And the drippings from the rotisserie chicken.
I also could not care one whit if my broth is clear. If it is, it means I didn't put in enough veggies and/or seasonings.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Well, then, by all means, toss the kneidlach right into the soup pot. I'm sure that it is very delicious.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Yup. All infused with spices and little bits of chicken schmaltz. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I've had four bowls of my chicken soup today, with schug stirred into each bowl, and I feel a little better after each one. Wish I had some of yours, though...
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Hmm. That could present a small problem. I made mushroom barley this week . . .
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
I want some chicken soup w/ knaidlich!! (I think I'll pass on the schug, though . . . although after reading the recipe I can see why it would be therapeutic for the cobbod code.)
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