Baked egg blue cheese, 5-spice chocolate cake and 7 weird hangover cures

Baked egg, spinach, blue cheese and onion with sourdough bread

Today's Food Diary

Breakfast: Muesli

Lunch: Pasta with red curry blackbeans (made with tomato paste instead of coconut milk)

Dinner: Baked egg, spinach, blue cheese and onion with sourdough bread, muesli

Baking/sweets: Sourdough bread

I made the baked egg dish for dinner by mixing all ingredients and baking in a ramekin for about 25 minutes. It was easy to prepare, required little attention during cooking and delicious to eat.

Today's Favourite Photo

Source: Almost Bourdain

Flourless Chinese 5-Spice Chocolate Cake 

Today’s Favourite Blog

Care2

Care 2 has an interesting post on 7 weird hangover cures from around the world. Namibia’s contribution is buffalo milk. Its not milk from a buffalo but a cocktail that has ice cream, dark rum, cream liqueur, spiced rum, and whole cream.

Tripe soup is Turkey’s contribution. I don’t think alcohol features prominently in Turkey so they probably have less experience developing anti-hangover cures. Nevertheless they do deserve praise for effort.

The Ancient Romans feasted on deep fried canaries. Canary is a small bird. I just hope this is not the most successful hangover cure since finding deep fried canaries the morning after could be a challenge.

New York’s contribution is egg benedict while the Canadians will offer you poutine. These are fries with cheese curds and gravy.

Bloody mary and banana milkshake also feature on the top 7.

From the list I have only tried bloody mary and it works. A few will get you tipsy, a few more will get you drunk and there are certainly no hangovers when you are tipsy or drunk.

Personally I find drinking lots of water throughout the drinking session and before going to bed helps a lot. A friend suggested drinking a litre of milk before going to bed. I have never tried this. And when you are greeted with a hangover, get out of bed and go for a walk or do something. This is easier said than done sometimes.

There are people who advocate drinking in moderation as a cure for hangover. I don’t think it works, drinking less is not a cure for hangover, its prevention. And I think if I had a hangover and someone gave me this advise it will probably make my headache worse.

Finally another tried and tested remedy that comes from Russia. 50-100ml of vodka, at least. Vodka not only cures hangovers, it cures everything else.