Soup

R has returned from England with a nasty wracking cold/cough. I suppose if we are going to get colds it might as well be before Crete, get it over with. But it's a ugly sounding thing, and he asked me to make my family's healing soup. I have done, and he's had some of it but not enough. Unfortunately, the main ingredients I remember are sadly lacking.

Chicken
Chicken feet*
Black pudding/Morcilla sausage*
Beef marrowbone*,
Pork fat/pork/chorizo
Olive oil
Onion/maybe leek
Chillies
Garlic
Wine
Tomato
Chickpeas*

Everything with a star was not available. Chicken feet I understand, marrowbone too (since the whole mad cow thing, I have tried and failed to get past my worries re spare bits of beast), but chickpeas? They're an important part of the whole massive protein shot. I substituted lentils and they're rubbish, tried with pearl barley in the past which was even worse. God, I wish I could remember this recipe properly, especially the greens. I think there was something like kale or spinach or even cabbage in it.Even my family can't just have boiled up a huge pot of meat and called it medicine.

Also, I am finding meat strangely unappetising right now. It's heavy and too much, I don't want it, it makes me sad. This is unfortunate as I don't like the taste of vegetables either. Right now all I want is fruit and bread.