Minnicks On Their Road To Ever After: A Big Boy Grill and Home Made Sangria!

Sunday, February 6, 2011

A Big Boy Grill and Home Made Sangria!

Lou’s Birthday party was last Friday and I found myself crawling back out of bed about 1am on Thursday night after finding a yummy “Best Party Sangria” recipe! Majority of the ingredients (wine and fruit) needed to soak over night……… so to the kitchen i go! Yes Lou thinks I am crazy and over kill but that’s ok during birthday season!!

Here’s the recipe from “cooks.com”:

Ingredients:

1 Bottle of red wine (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Rioja, Zinfandel, Shiraz)
1 Lemon cut into wedges
1 Orange cut into wedges
1 Lime cut into wedges ( I subbed for apple)
2 Tbsp sugar
Splash of orange juice or lemonade
2 Shots of gin or triple sec (or 3 or 4 :))
1 Small can of diced pineapples (with juice)
4 Cups ginger ale (I used sprite zero)

Preparation:

Pour wine into a large pitcher and squeeze the juice wedges from the lemon, orange and lime into the wine. Toss in the fruit wedges (leaving out seeds if possible) and pineapple then add sugar, orange juice and gin. Chill overnight. Add ginger ale, berries and ice just before serving. If you'd like to serve right away, use chilled red wine and serve over lots of ice. However, remember that the best Sangrias are chilled around 24 hours in the frig. - allowing the flavors to really marinate into each other.

Yup that last sentence is what go me out of bed!!

I’d say it was a success though!

I must admit, knowing our crowd, I had a feeling1 batch was not enough…. So I made sure to keep a bottle of pre-made Sangria handy to refill the bowl- that was quickly gone too!!

So we called it quits and walked over to Las Margaritas :)

Apologies:

I have GOT to get better about taking pictures during our house parties… I’m terrible and too busy being a “good hostess” I guess ;)

Leave it to Lance to snap a few though!