I'm surprised you caught a cold as careful as you've been Covid-wise. One thing I've noticed lately, even though we are FAR less diligent here than in many places, is the almost complete absence of colds/flu the past 6 months. Usually there is always a few people with some sort of respiratory ailment at any given time. Anyway, hope you recover quickly, and that the soup helps.

thanks - think it’s the walks in 65-70 degree weather without a jacket :-)
covid-Wise, all I do is wear a mask when outside, so that part is pretty easy to recall.

at least the soup is tasty. Not sure if it’ll help cure the cold...

That is not how one catches a cold. Just wear whatever is comfortable regardless of temp and keep walking once you feel better. :tu:
However you are correct that chicken soup does contain and enzyme or something that helps with clearing mucous. Of course, homemade that is from boiling bones or simmering chicken parts is best. Ginger and garlic are both good too so hope you feel well soon.

I’m torn about the bone boiling - I’ve pondered about the chicken thigh bones that I have; online recipes all say to cook for 36 hours for the reduction.
HOW would I stove cook bones for 36 hours? Granted if I’m home 20-23 hours a day during pandemic, logically I could stove cook it but I don’t like leaving the stove running while I’m not near the stove (eg bedtime etc). So how do normal people do these things???

Crockpot.

is it like a slow cooker? Where it’s just plugged into a socket for 36 hours?
thanks for the idea; our slow cooker is in our pantry.

That is nuts......2 hours would be more than enough. If anything, some smaller chicken bones will break down after too long. I don't know how many thigh bones you have but it needs to be quite a few---why do you have leftover thigh bones? Back & neck bones are great for making broth. And yes---crockpots are great for this and you can let it go for about 4 hours in one if you want. And actually, I used the wrong word---you should be simmering rather than boiling.

thanks - I had checked this site:
https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-mak...-cooker-254173

it said: “

• Bone broth needs to cook for a minimum of 24 hours, but ideally 48 on low heat.”

and I like that site for cooking, thus my thought of 36 hours.

chocken thigh bones - I buy Costco chicken thighs so thought of using these bones :-)
I can cook or boil the chicken thighs, use meat for soup etc, and still use the bones.

I make my own chicken or turkey soup all the time and never ever cook for more than 4 hours. Sometimes I brown the bones, sometimes not. I do not rinse with vinegar. You are not making a gelatinous bone broth...you just want some chicken soup because you are sick. By the time you do all of that extra stuff, I assume that your cold will be long gone. It isn't necessary but if you want to do all of that, go ahead. Please don't boil chicken or meat...it gets tough & stringy. And if you haven't already used the chicken from the thighs, how are you going to make soup? If you actually want the chicken thigh meat in your soup, you can simmer the thighs (remove skin and fat) with aromatics until done (maybe 30 minutes), remove them and take off the meat & set aside, put the bones back in the broth that you simmered the chicken in and continue to cook that for a few hours. Add the reserved chicken meat back in (remove bones of course) to heat through before serving. If you are going to go to all of this trouble and time, be sure to make a huge pot as you can freeze the broth.
Or just find a really good jewish deli and buy some of their homemade chicken soup. Honestly, that is what I would do rather than do all of that cooking and chopping when I wasn't feeling well.

Yes, a crock pot is simply the brand name version of a slow cooker.
Simmer the bones for a few hours.

I’m not that sick with the cold. It’s just a cold. I also rested and slept much on Saturday Halloween, so on Sunday today, I’ve not sneezed until 2p despite being up since 5a. And I think I sneezed because we had a farmers market play date so my spouse could buy farmer food (grapes cheese bagels strawberries) that hopefully gets eaten. I needed zero produce due to Costco but did get luncheon and some bakery.

Namu stonepot korean luncheon at farmers market:
bibimbop with beef bulgogi (alas, not stone pot like the restaurant)
korean loco moco with beef bulgogi
korean boba black milk tea

bakery purchases (to be eaten today!)
pretzel
croissant
pain au chocolat
vanilla custard pie

Do you and your wife buy separate food?

I'm so confused. We'll avoid Costco for months, but will go to a farmer's market for produce we don't need?

I bought all of this stuff - one bakery; one korean place (that did loco moco). I took 4 mega hot girls to the korean BAM spot after the 2018 guided by voices concert, around 12:30a. 2 blue Texans (older than Ian) and 2 Aussie sisters (one older than Ian, one a tad younger); they all were following GBV around USA tour. We ate nice late night korean and lots of beer & sake and had already been drinking at 7:30p and still were up front for guided by voices. Fun night; I even used my phone to lyft and uber them to their hotels. And I only ended up meeting them in person all thanks to having met Corky in 2017.

Also didn't his wife had all those drinks in the old refrigerator that wasn't being drank?