Sick get.
Sick fix with food!
Personal recipe for grog:
Chop up or mince decent-sized slice of fresh ginger. Put in cup.
Add one bag of cheap black tea to cup. (Weak stuff, not the strong English stuff. No strong flavors.)
Boil water. Pour over cup.
After about half a minute, remove tea bag.
Let sit for about ten minutes.
Strain liquid into second cup to remove ginger pieces.
Add some fresh-squeezed lemon juice, a small spoon of honey, and a shot of rum (preferably Czech "Tuzemsky" rum, but you can't really get that outside of this country - it tastes *very* different from Caribbean rum).
Drink!
Repeat until you are healthy or too drunk to care that you're sick.
For dinner:
Chop or mince a few cloves of garlic and a small onion. Also chop up a carrot and a few small potatoes or one large one, and slice up one small chili pepper.
Sautee everything but the potato in a little olive oil in a big pot. Add the potato once it's really hot. Do not let the garlic turn brown! Just lightly sautee.
Sprinkle in some "provencal" herb mix and a generous helping of chopped parsley (fresh is best, dried works fine).
After about one minute, pour in a bunch of water, as much as you want. You can also add a sprinkling of flour or potato/corn starch to thicken it a bit.
Sprinkle in a tiny bit of sea salt (just a pinch) and a generous amount of black pepper.
Boil then cover and simmer for half an hour.
Chop up a few small tomatoes and throw that in about 5 minutes before the soup is ready.
Meanwhile, brush some sliced dark bread with olive oil. When the soup is almost done, toss them in the oven/toaster and toast until lightly browned and slightly crispy on the outside.
Soup > bowl. Toast > dip in soup while eating.
Repeat until there is no more soup. Or make some more soup. It's pretty good.
NO MORE SICK.
Also these things are also lovely when you are not sick.