Showing posts with label Hangovers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hangovers. Show all posts

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Apparently I wasn't the only drunk one this New Year's Eve

Just a quick note on this I found with all about hangover cures.

With hangover cures, an online blood alcohol content calculator, drink recipes and other wasted fun. A little late for the New Year's hangover, but still a good site. [YesButNoButYes]
The site includes a breathalyzer test?

Hangover cure a-la-Mexicana

I blogged about being hungover a few days ago after drinking with a friend. Well, the day after that, being New Year's Eve, I continued on my binge and woke up on New Year's feeling a step up from defeated. At my friend's house I discovered that I had brought him, from my last trip to Mexico, a box of machaca.

Chihuahua Country machaca is by far the best dried, cured beef in the market. I grew up with it, and it's definitely high-end stuff (not just any machaca will taste as good and/or do the trick as this one does). Feeling like my innards would dissolve if I didn't stuff them with something fast enough, I cooked it up for the house that morning. I was out of it enough to feel like it all needed to be documented step by step.


Machaca!

Fried up some onions

Busted out the Mama Lycha

How many eggs will that be?

Whipped up some eggs

Threw down the beans and refried them

Machaca in the pan, searing with onions before the eggs.

Threw in the eggs and some tomatoes

And voila! Huevos y Machaca a la Mexicana

Sprinkle some citrus on that and eat with some fresh jalapeƱos and you're set to take on any kind of malnourishment from the night before. Definitely a must after drinking a bottle of tequila.

Monday, December 31, 2007

Miracle cure for a hangover of gargantuan proportions

After a long night of pounding back beers at my favorite dive in D.C., and snacking on chips and salsa, I woke up this morning with the hangover from hell.

After what seemed like hours of struggling to make it out of bed, and trying to reconstruct the puzzle of what last night was, I decided to go get myself a piece of heaven to line my tripes and my arteries this morning. I got myself some Five Guys.

Five Guy's has been voted "Best Burgers" for the past five years in Washingtonian Magazine, were rated number one "Bang for the Buck" in Zagat Survey and The Washington Post calls them "the Willy Wonkas of burgercraft."[Five Guys]


This place keeps it simple and delicious. Burgers and fries are your options on the menu.

Only thing to decide on is the size and the toppings (which are included in the price of your burger). Just a quick glance at the packaging that will surely cure all my ails, is enough to know what I'm about to get into.



And clearly I asked for the perfect combination of toppings to patch up any wear and tear last night's alcohol may have caused and ensure a few ulcers down the line. Finger-lickin' good!

Bacon Cheeseburger

  • Mayo
  • Mustard
  • Ketchup
  • Raw Onions
  • Lettuce
  • Tomatoes
  • Pickles
  • Fried Mushrooms
  • Fried Onions
  • BBQ Sauce
  • JalapeƱos
The final product looks a little something like this:



Another huge plus is the amount of French fries you get. You get enough to feed a group of three or four normal people (or one of me). Cloud nine, if I've ever been there.



If you've never been, you haven't lived.