Yesterday a news alert from PopSugar dinged my phone, announcing that I could totally cure my holiday “food hangover.” With these seven healthy meals!
PopSugar, I love you, I do, but I have a question: WHY, exactly, might I want to cure my holiday food hangover when it happens to still technically be “the holidays”? And beyond that – speaking as someone who has worked in many, many bars over the years and who knows that how you fix alcohol-related misery is with more alcohol – you know how you *actually* cure a food hangover?
With butter.
So why would I not simply embrace my sorry, sorry physical state and burrow down into a deliciously slovenly miasma of over-the-top indulgence for a few more days? Why would I not eat all the potatoes and bacon my personal bodily unit can tolerate in anticipation of the arrival of the day after New Year’s Day, when I’m (allegedly) supposed to start feeling all guilty about the fact that I’ve been using my body as a trash dump for gravy and prosecco and start being the kind of person who does hot yoga? (I say “the day after New Year’s Day,” btw, because I am of the firm opinion that New Year’s Day is for watching terrible Megan Fox movies and eating eggs baked in cream. I haven’t actually done that for the past six years because my children neither watch Megan Fox movies nor wait for eggs to bake, but still: I refuse to be virtuous on January 1st. It seems like bad mojo.)
Here’s a roundup of some recipes that I think should make up the entirety of your diet for the next few days, after which I guess you should whip up this. (I mean, won’t, but you do you.)
