{"id":16,"date":"2007-04-09T21:31:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T04:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2007-08-06T06:38:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T13:38:18","slug":"almost-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Almost human"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MatzoI’m a total wuss when it comes to catching a cold. I dread the moment I feel the tell-tale scratch at the back of my throat, ‘cuz I know what’s coming: three days — at the very least — of achy muscles, pounding headache, sniffles and overall yuckiness. It came on hard and fast Thursday night, and even with two solid days of couch rest, I was still feeling peaked yesterday. I mustered up the strength to do my physical therapy exercises, but my 6-mile run was out of the question.<\/p>\n

Normally I would have spent another day as a couch potato, but Easter festivities beckoned. You’d think given my diminished state I’d take good care of myself, but NOOOOOO. I languished too long over the cheese platter; quaffed far too many glasses of wine; gobbled up gads of cheesy potato casserole, brisket and ham; and devoured a large slice of Devil’s Food cake<\/a>. Oy!<\/p>\n

I had hoped to get home early and go straight to bed, but due to a carpooling snafu my darling and I had to take his grandmother home — a trip that took us an hour and a half out of our way. By the time I hit the sheets I was Ms. Grumpypants, and a sleepless night didn’t help matters. I awoke slightly hung-over and still suffering from my cold. But since I hadn’t worked out in days, I drug my sorry butt to the gym for my cardio class.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t you know it: when I’m feeling my worst my instructor is Perky Polly, hellbent on torture. I gave the class a half-assed go, although I skipped the half-hour ab-lab afterwards. I was still feeling pretty crappy when I got back home, and collapsed in my darling’s arms, breaking into a teary melt-down.<\/p>\n

The cry actually did me good and I began getting ready for my client cook-date. I called my voice mail (my client always leaves me a shopping list on Sundays), and was pleasantly surprised to hear her say she was giving me a day off — with pay! My day suddenly got a lot brighter.<\/p>\n

I was craving matzo ball soup, so I decided to clear out all the chicken parts in my freezer and prepare a mess of homemade chicken stock. I must have had about 10 pounds of parts, including more than a pound and a half of chicken feet (yes, I realize that may sound gross. But they help make the stock very rich and gelatinous). I threw it all into my big-ass stockpot and let it simmer for about five hours. After straining it off I tossed in some matzo balls, then added some chopped leeks and carrots. It was chicken soup for the soul! (Hey — that would be a good title for a book). \"Chicken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a total wuss when it comes to catching a cold. I dread the moment I feel the tell-tale scratch at the back of my throat, ‘cuz I know what’s coming: three days — at the very least — of achy muscles, pounding headache, sniffles and overall yuckiness. It came on hard and fast Thursday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}