This bad boy will kick the crap out of whatever cold, sinus infection or flu the fates have visited on you.

Ingredients & Directions

2 quarts chicken or veggie broth
3 TBS shredded fresh ginger
1 TBS red pepper flakes
6 chopped garlic cloves, sauteed
1 cup shitake mushrooms
2 chopped red peppers
Combine all of these in a slow cooker on high for at least 2 hours. Then steam and set by:
2 heads of broccoli, cut into florets
2 cups of chopped carrots
Any other veggies you like.
Pour the broth over the veggies, eat like you mean it, and then spend the rest of the day sipping the broth and reading schlocky novels.

—Lauryn Mayer