simple food for the sick

While I welcomed the snow on Sunday with open arms (literally, in my backyard), the resulting cold seems to have contributed to a slight bout of illness. I feel exhausted and as if my head feels full of cheese.

I have friends who lose their appetites when ill, but it seems that mine gets even more voracious. So for lunch, I settled for something simple, but filling and delicious. I had a chicken leg that had been marinating in a mixture of soy sauce and sesame oil, so I bunged that in the oven and put on the rice cooker. I had a tub of miso and some leftover daikon (from making buta no kakuni – braised belly pork – a blog post on that later!), so I decided to make…. daikon miso soup! Thinly sliced daikon cooks quickly in the broth, so that was ready in no time. A perfect soothing broth with juicy, tender daikon was just the thing I needed.

The rice was topped with some maguro furikake. The chicken leg was so flavoursome from being marinated for so long, and the meat was tender and juicy. Overall, a simple and good meal. And now, I must nap… before thinking of what to eat for dinner (or do you think I can get someone else to cook for me and bring it to me in my bed?).