This is an Irish version of potato, red onion soup. the amazing thing is that if you're single and too sick to cook, you can close your eyes, focus in detail and imagine making and eating the soup - strangely, you will feel almost as good as if you had actually done it.
THIS IS NOT A CREAM SOUP.
I use red onion for respiratory purposes but you can use any onions. Just make sure you use enough. The overall amounts aren't that important as it isn't a cream soup. Just don't skimp on the onions.
Ingredients
4 onions 1 lb potatoes - your preference 4 cups water 3 TBS butter (or Ghee) Olive oil Sea salt Fresh ground black pepper
Preparation In 4 cups of water, place cubed potatoes and one chopped onion. Cook until completely done.
While the potatoes and onion are cooking, place butter and remaining CHOPPED onions in skillet and slow cook until the onions are soft. If 3 TBS isn't enough butter, you can either add more butter or olive oil.
When the potato onion mixture is done, mash the mixture with the water you cooked it in (do not drain) and whisk together. Add the slow cooked onions and butter to the pot of mashed and whisked potatoes and onion mixture and stir while reheating.
Salt and pepper to taste, per bowl, with or without crackers, (should take quite a bit of salt and pepper) and then spike with additional black pepper.
May be eaten with saltines or plain, as preferred, but salt and pepper when ready to eat, not before. For instance, salt and pepper to taste AFTER you add saltines if you're using them or if you want a bit more butter or whatever.
The significance is in the onions and black pepper.
ANOTHER TIP
Dig out all of your old, clean t-shirts and have them ready. Use two t-shirts as a doubled pillow case and change them often. If you're like me, the fever will drop you like a lead balloon, first, and you'll be a bit loopy for a couple of days so this may be all you can manage but you want your eyes, ears, nose and mouth on a clean pillow as often as you can manage. You may not be thinking exactly straight for a couple of days and time may go all whacky on you so be ready with the pillow cases/t-shirts so you don't have to think much about changing them. Initially, you won't care about soup so don't worry about it until you resurface after the initial fever.
2 gallons of distilled water and popsicles are also nice to have on hand. Just the little single popsicles. If you can't finish one, just throw it away but that little bit of sugar will keep you sane when you're awake. Even if you don't make sense when you talk. Mostly, you'll just sleep that first couple days - which is a good thing.
The time thing was really weird. It seemed like I'd been out of commission for a couple of weeks when it had actually only been a couple of days with the fever. I was quite sane but the time thing was extremely confusing as I live alone and no one even knew I was sick until I had resurfaced after the fever. It took me a few tries to get the words right just to convince my daughter I hadn't had a stroke or something. It was the freakiest thing because I knew what I meant but I wasn't making sense when I talked.
Something else that happened was that my quite long hair came undone during those first couple of days and was terribly matted when I resurfaced. I was too weak to brush it out or shower or do anything, actually, so I cut it all off with the dog trimming scissors. It was a huge load off my mind and I was quite happy to be rid of it at that point. It took about a day but it was worth it and I felt about 2000% better once I got it all.
One last thing, you'll want some protein to get a handle on the weakness. My daughter brought me a big bag of frozen meatballs which was all I ate for several days - 4 meatballs, breakfast and supper - with one exception which was plain "Pringles" potato chips. I had to have some salt and that's what she brought me. For a week, the Pringles were the only thing that tasted as they should. Everything else tasted sweet and really icky. I'm not a potato chip person and hadn't had Pringles since I was a kid but those Pringles tasted really good. I ate 4 cans of them over the course of a week.
The soup is for the lingering respiratory crap that is extremely annoying. I was fortunate that mine did not go down into my chest but OMG! The discomfort just behind the sinuses and above the throat nearly drove me crazy. I couldn't cough it or otherwise budge it, no matter what I did. It was just there. Stubbornly, exasperatingly there - and horrible. I even snuffed cayenne up my nose and that did nothing to move it!
So, even if you don't think you want this soup - save the instructions. Onions and black pepper in a base of potatoes and butter.
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