There is no reason that anyone should ever get hung over from 3 glasses of wine. Unless, that is, one is completely allergic to wine and also suffers from a rare form of wine-amnesia that disables one from remembering that it is so every single time the opportunity comes up to drink wine.
Also, did someone rufie me last night? Seriously.
At any rate, I was fortunate enough today to stumble across the best hangover cure in the world. It worked like a charm, and all it required was a simple 3-step process:
- Take one of every single kind of medicine you have in the house, including any pills, fizzy tablets, essential oils, herbal teas, coconut products, and unlabeled homemade tinctures.
- Make the following soup.
- After you eat the soup, sleep for the entire rest of the day.
Voila! You are guaranteed to feel better by at least the next day. Maybe the day after, in some extreme cases.
By the way, this recipe was altered from one I took from an old Moosewood cookbook I have lying around. So, I’m not really that much of a soup genius. But it sure was good.
Hangover Cure Soup
Put all of this stuff in a pot and bring it to a boil:
- 6-8 cups of homemade chicken stock, or you can use veggie stock or bouillon or even water is just fine, cuz I recognize that not everyone in the world has time to make chicken stock from scratch once a week like I do.
- A cup of dried lentils (I used black, recipe called for red, probably doesn’t matter at all)
- A chopped up onion
- Nine, count them NINE, peeled but whole garlic cloves
- A few chopped potatoes (I used this psychedelic purple whirly ones I picked up at the farmers market last week)
Cover, turn it down to a simmer, and cook until the potatoes are soft, which takes like 10-15.
In the meanwhile, heat up some vegetable oil in a small saucepan, and when it’s hot (but not smoking) stir in a T of cumin, 1/2 tsp of turmeric, and a tsp of salt. Stir if for about 3 minutes, until it smells real nice. Let it cool down a bit, then stir it into the soup, along with a handful of cilantro (that’s optional of course for all you cilantro haters).
Very last thing: puree it with your immersion blender (best kitchen utensil ever, especially if you’re into soup and peanut butter cookies) or in your regular blender.
Sip up! A nice accompaniment to alka seltzer.
I rediscovered my allergy to wine at a Desiree Rumbaugh workshop and spent the day after throwing up in the bathroom during handstands and the 3 hour ride home curled up in a ball moaning in the back. I think I need to start wearing those allergic reaction dog tags or bracelet so people won’t sell me a glass of wine…
Thanks for the recovery recipe. Sadly, I will probably need it, dog tags or no.
If they sell those bracelets I’ll wear one too. But unfortunately people don’t ever tend to believe me when I say I’m allergic to wine. Probably because when they offer it to me I generally say, “I’m allergic to wine but okay, why not?”