Top 4 Brunch Dishes To Cure Your Hangover

Feeling groggy after a wild night out? Instead of staying home and suffering through the symptoms of hangover, come out to Brooklyn Kitchen - a family-owned cooking store that offers ingredient-driven groceries, quality tools and equipment, and technique-based recreational cooking classes - for a chance to make mouthwatering dishes that are not only delicious, but will also cure your worst hangover!

Don’t worry if you are a novice cook. Brooklyn’s Kitchen’s friendly staff and volunteers will guide you through every step to perfecting these sweet and savory brunch dishes.

1. Chicken and Ginger Spinach Soup

Nothing is more comforting than a bowl of warm chicken soup, which helps to restock sodium and water levels in the body. Chicken also contains cysteine, which gives the liver a much needed boost. Ginger works wonders for nausea relief and contains anti-inflammatory compounds. Finally, spinach is rich with potassium, an important electrolyte that is often depleted during alcohol intake.

2. Bloody Mary Egg Bake with Bacon Crumble

Inspired by everyone’s favorite brunch cocktail, the Bloody Mary Egg Bake with Bacon Crumble offers a kick of spiciness from the hot sauce to wake up your senses. Eggs pack a ton of cysteine, an amino acid that breaks down toxins in your body. Tomatoes help pack simple sugars to get your levels up and running again, and its inflammatory benefits don’t hurt either.

3. Everything Bagel Avocado Toast with Mascarpone and Red Onion Pickle

Avocado is everyone’s favorite new, trendy ingredient for brunch. The nutritional content of avocados can counteract dizziness and weakness that results from heavy drinking. Apple cider vinegar in the pickled onion can help dissolve foreign substances in your body, and also balance pH levels and increase deficient minerals such as potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium and iron.

4. Lemon Thyme Bread

And after all the savory dishes, who can say “No” to a sweet treat? The Lemon Thyme Bread packs rich scent from fresh thyme and lemon peel. After baking in the oven for 40-50 minutes, the bread is crispy crust and dense yet moist inside that just melts in your mouth. Top it off with a dollop of creamy Greek yogurt and drizzle it with honey, and you’ve got yourself the perfect dish to end the brunch.

Baking at Home: Sweet Potato "Bread"

I love to eat, to take pictures, and to write about food. However, I don't have much experience cooking. The last time I tried baking at home, the cookies turned into biscuits because I didn't add butter (I substituted it with apple sauce). Hey, at least they were healthy.

I tried my luck again at healthy cooking today. I was surfing on the web when I stumbled upon a recipe for sweet potato bread. Because Mom had asked me a few minutes earlier whether I wanted to eat sweet potato, I knew we had the most important ingredient already at home. The recipe only required sweet potato, milk, honey, and egg, so I thought, "Why not bake?"

First, grab the sweet potato and washed them in cold water. I thought my hands were going to freeze! I made sure to scrub the skin to get rid of any dirt.

Next, cut each end of the sweet potato.

I sliced them into pieces so that they would cook faster.

Put the washed & cut sweet potato in a pot and boil them until cooked. It's best to poke it with a toothpick or a fork to check whether they are cooked all throughout.

While you wait for the sweet potato to cook, get one egg and separate the yolk.

Whip the white egg until it becomes bubbly. The more you whip, the softer the bread becomes at the end.

Once the sweet potato is cooked, take it out of the boiling pot and peel the skin. Make sure to peel them when they are hot (but not extremely hot that you burn your hands!) so that the skin comes off more easily.

Mash the sweet potato ruthlessly.

Add the egg yolk and 100ml of nonfat milk. I had to improvise the recipe because we didn't have milk. Instead I added soy milk.

Whip and mash the mixture until it becomes smooth.

Add the egg whites into the mixture and gently whip toss and fold them together.

Put the finalized mixture into a microwavable plate/dish.

Spread evenly so the sweet potato cooks throughout.

Pop it in the microwave for 7 to 8 minutes. Oh, the convenience of not having to use the oven!

Tada!

Decorate it with whatever "toppings" you want (fruits, nuts, and/or whipped cream right before consumption).

The sweet potato "bread" did not have any bread-like texture or flavor. It tasted just like mashed sweet potato, just a bit harder, more dense, and in a distinct, rectangular shape.

Because the sweet potato already had a sweet taste, I didn't add any sweetner, honey, or sugar. The rich flavor of the sweet potato permeated throughout the whole product. The outside was slightly dry, but the moistness remained inside.

Cheers to a healthy dessert/snack!