Pomegranate pound cake and worlds strangest hangover cures

Double coconut cookies

Food Diary (July 06, 2011)

Breakfast: Rolled oats with strawberries, sunflower seeds and flax seeds

Lunch: Boiled egg and caviar on baked potato oat flatbread

Dinner: Cauliflower and rice

Baking/sweets: Baked Potato Oat Flatbread, double coconut cookies

There are plenty of recipes for double chocolate chip cookies floating around, even some triple chocolate chip cookies. I myself joined the crowd and developed a recipe for double chocolate coffee daim cookie. These cookies are fabulous.

In the cookie world I noticed a gap for double coconut cookies and I decided to do something about it. And I am glad I did as the double coconut cookies are divine, coconutty, light, crispy, crumbly and coconutty. Yes double the coconutty because the cookies use both desiccated coconut and coconut oil. Thankfully I have some leftover dough waiting patiently in the freezer for the next opportunity to visit the sauna.

Boiled egg and caviar on baked potato oat flatbread

Today's Favourite Photo

Source: The Harried Cook

Pomegranate Pound Cake

Today’s Favourite Blog

Source: Travel and Leisure

An interesting article on the worlds strangest hangover cures. I know July 4^th  is gone and this hangover article would have been more appropriate a few days ago but I am sure there will be plenty more opportunities to put these cures to the test. 

1. Full English breakfast: Fans argue that the high protein and fat content does the trick

2. Prairie Oyster cocktail: A raw egg yolk is topped with Worcestershire, Tabasco, salt and pepper. Purportedly, this concoction fights one toxin (alcohol) by introducing another (hot spices). I am not sure if I will find this appetizing the morning after

3. Ciorba De Burta: This Romanian soup is full of strips of tripe, vinegar, garlic, hot pepper, and sour cream. I would say this one definitely sounds more appealing than #2

4. Pancha Karma cleansing treatment: This ancient ayurvedic practice is meant to purify the body and mind. It involves a series of cleanses, including a vegetarian diet, massage, sweat therapy, and purges.

5. Corpse Reviver cocktail: Each cocktail has botanicals that theoretically take the edge off. A few of these will definitely take care of the hangover. This is a great one, its almost worth getting a hangover for.

6. Umeboshi: A Japanese fruit that has been cured with sea salt for several months. The acids improve liver function, aid digestion, and dispel fatigue. The pickled fruit is also rich in key electrolytes like sodium and potassium.

7. Banya: A Russian sauna. Sweating in the intense heat is meant to purge the body of toxins. I have been to banyas the morning after and a bottle or more of the clear liquid has been always present. Surely this cures hangover

8. Rollmops: Rollmops are fillets of pickled herring wrapped around slivers of pickle and onion. The brine in the snack replenishes electrolytes—and while its saltiness encourages you to drink more water, its sugar content also alleviates hypoglycemia (the cause of morning-after wobblies). I have eaten this during drinking but never the morning after. 

9. Oxygen bar: This involves breathing air enriched with 95 percent oxygen. That extra oxygen supposedly improves the body’s overall metabolism, thus hastening the breakdown of alcohol-related toxins

10. Irn-Bru Soda: It’s a Scottish neon-orange soda. With high levels of sugar and caffeine, the fizz gives a temporary kick. I am not sure how long the kick will last.

There are so many different cures, probably every country has at least one cure but I think the only cure is to have a drink or two. Some people suggest drinking in moderation but I think that’s prevention not cure.