With sickies surrounding me in the office and at home for the past 2 weeks, I finally succumbed to the flu virus and fell ill on Thursday afternoon. Started off with bodyache and being lethargic which continued through to Friday, left office early and headed home to snooze it out. Developed with a fever on Saturday and basically slept the day through. Then from Sunday onwards, my nose started feeling heavy and clogged up. Urgghhh...hate being sick.

Well, in any case, felt much better on Sunday and decided that what J and I need is a good dose of chicken stew to chase the flu-blues away. One of my all time favourite (most soupy dishes are my favourites :) ), half chicken with some black pepper seeds, one to two sticks of cinnamon, onions (lots of it), potatoes, carrots, cabbage, macaronies, spring onion and chicken stock granules for added taste. Serve it with hot steamed rice and sambal belacan (omitted this since we are supposed to be sick!). My lunch was mostly soup and vege - just what the doctor (ahem - that would be me :) ordered!

As I still had half a chicken more, decided to have some fried chicken as additional dish for dinner. Pounded a handful of black pepper seeds and a clove of garlic, add some soy sauce and set it aside in the fridge to marinate for a few hours. Just before frying, added some corn flour - just enough to ensure that all sides of the chicken pieces are covered.

 Outcome : Yummylicious Garlic & Black Pepper Fried Chicken ala Chris

Satisfying dinner with one leftover bacth of marinated chicken for tonight's frying :)