Happy New Year.
And how are you feeling this morning? Well, what you need is a good traditional American breakfast of bacon, eggs, coffee and orange juice as it appears to be a nearly perfect hangover cure.
Amino acids in the bacon ease withdrawal symptoms; cysteine in the eggs counteracts the aldehyde that builds up in the body after heavy drinking; the caffeine in the coffee is an antidote to adenosine which is the main reason for hangover headaches; and the vitamin C in orange juice accelerates alcohol metabolism.
Figure out a way to get some asparagus, which has compounds that reverse the negative effects of alcohol on body cells, and hummas which includes vitamin B6 in the meal and you will have the perfect hangover cure.
If you want to include asparagus in this breakfast, why not have your eggs and bacon, along with the asparagus, as a tasty omelette, maybe with other veggies in it, too? Cheese is also good for you if you drink a lot, because the calcium makes your bones stronger in case you fall, so be sure to include some of it in your omelette. You can also garnish it with hummus if you want. I’m doubt it will do much good for that hangover, for which the best cure is prevention, but it would be a yummy way to start the New Year just the same.
To paraphrase David Allan Coe, you’ve created the perfect hangover breakfast.
MISSISSIPPI- Johnny Diamond had a recipe. Let’s see. Cayenne pepper, mustard, ipecac, asafoetida, and oil of cloves… or was it? No, it was croton oil.
BULL- Croton oil?! I’ll be a suck-egg mule. You know what that mixture will do to a feller?
MISSISSIPPI: Guaranteed kill or cure.
The last ingredient added was gunpowder.
(from the John Wayne movie El Dorado)
Cured Robert Mitchum (or was it Dean Martin?)
Market Street Sammy Trockmorton says the worst thing you can do is over-imbibe on New Year’s Eve.
“You’re just asking for 365 days of bad luck, he said.
If you get smashed, Sammy says, his hangover cocktail will not remove the bad luck but it will, with the help of a couple of aspirin, cure the headache.
We never had the occasion to try the awful-sounding thing, but Sammy insists that it is a delicious panacea. We pass it on to you.
Market Street Sammy’s
Hangover Cocktail
3 cups of canned
sauerkraut juice
1 teaspoon Worcester-
shire sauce
1/2 teaspoon prepared
mustard
1/4 teaspoon pepper.
Mix and chill. Shake before serving over ice cubes.