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Just a Few Cozy Recipes to Get You Through the Rest of 2017

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.)

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Macaroni and Cheese...For Grown-Ups

This recipe is a tsunami of butter and cheese, but totally fancy enough to serve to guests above the age of twelve (just add parsley).

2/7

Two-Ingredient Nutella Brownies

This recipe contains exactly two ingredients – neither of which are butter or flour – and I can’t blame you for not thinking it’s possible for the end result to be the fluffiest, most incredible brownies you’ve ever tasted.

But ’tis so.

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Rigatoni with Pork and Eggplant Ragu

This may not technically be the most decadent pasta recipe ever – there’s no cream involved – but you’d never know it.

Also, whatever, it’s pasta. Pasta is always perfect.

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Beef & Rice Stew

Just add a fireplace.

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DIY Biscuit Dough Doughnuts

I know, I know, doughnuts seem like one of those things it’s impossible to improve upon. That’s what I thought, too: why put in all that energy when you can just buy a doughnut at the supermarket and it will be the best thing you’ve ever eaten because it is a doughnut?

Making my own doughnuts for the very first time changed my mind. You have got to try this.

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Potato Soup for the Soul

Soup never solved anyone’s problems, but sometimes it can help.

This is the meal I make when I need the food equivalent of a hug…and as 2017 comes to a close, I really, really do.

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