New day, new year, same hangover

Happy New Year from your friends at the Dog Denizens of Genesee Park (DDGP)!

If you partied last night like it was 2009, 1999 or 1989... you may have consumed too many spirits and are nursing a hangover the size of Skyway. While some imbibers advocate for Vietnamese pho soup or a coronary-artery-clogging breakfast (fried potatoes and eggs with melted cheese), a few daring individuals recommend menudo.

Menudo? you might wonder in horror. Wouldn't the musical stylings of the Puerto Rican boy group that rotated singers when an adolescent's voice changed cause increased headaches and gastrointestinal distress?

Yes, the music of the group Menudo (aka MDO) might make you more inclined to toss your proverbial cookies. But we're talking about menudo, the Mexican soup consisting of tripe (honeycomb-shaped stomach lining), a red-chili broth and hominy grits. Although your abeula would undoubtedly prepare a labor-intensive version. you may not want to ask your grandmother to prepare menudo if doing so would require that you tell her that you seek a hangover cure. Better that you prepare a quick-and-easy version for immediate relief. If only Goya or even Nissin made menudo.

Menudo

• 1 pound beef tripe, cleaned and cubed
• 3 minced garlic gloves
• 3 teaspoons salt
• ½ cup red chili power
• 2 tablespoons oregano
• 1 tablespoon course black pepper
• t teaspoon cumin
• ½ chopped onion
• 1 small can of hominy (yellow or white)

Put tripe in boiling water. Add onion, garlic and salt to pot.

Cook tripe and seasonings for one hour.

After one hour monitor tripe for desired tenderness.

Add oregano, pepper, cumin and hominy to pot, and cook for 15-to-20 minutes... longer if necessary.