Tag: summer drinks
Cinco de Mayo: Pomegranate Mojito
Another one for you…
Here is another delicious drink recipe courtesy of my dear husband. As I have mentioned before he is a great mixologist and our friends and family are very grateful recipients of his creative talent.
He made this drink for the barbecue we were having. I was making the lamb burgers paired with the carrot and potato salads.
The delicious drink is made with the usual white rum but in this one citrus white rum is used- it imparts a great lemony flavor. The other important flavor of course is the pomegranate liquor- the star ingredient. The tangy pomegranate flavor goes perfectly well in this delicious drink. It provides the right amount of sweetness.
Some ice and lots of fresh mint make this drink perfect. It is ideal for the summer months- especially for the upcoming long weekend.
Make this delicious drink and your guests may never leave the backyard…
- 1 oz pomegranate liquor
- 1 oz citrus white rum
- ½ oz limejuice
- ¾ oz simple syrup
- 1 tablespoon fresh mint
- 2 oz club soda
- Ice
In a drink mixer, add the fresh mint and simple syrup. Muddle the mint with the back of a spatula. Add the pomegranate liquor, rum and limejuice. Shake well and pour into a glass full of ice. Add the club soda on top and serve.
Passion Fruit Sangria
I posted this a couple of years ago .. and it is perfect for Cinco de Mayo!!
Did I mention I was obsessed with Latin cuisine? Well, I guess it is easy to see if you browse through my recent recipes on the blog. Every time I try to come up with a new recipe or something different for dinner, the only thing that comes to mind are Latin flavors.
The other thing I am loving right now are passion fruits. This Brazilian native fruit is the best tasting fruit ever! It is by far the most flavorful thing I have ever tasted. I wait for them to show up at Whole Foods or Eden Gourmet. They are quite expensive but SO worth the taste.
I recently found delicious passion fruit juice without any high fructose corn syrup. It is the Goya variety and it amazing! My husband came up with this sangria recipe and it is absolutely delicious. It is a perfect summer drink to serve at a barbecue. Try it and it will be part of your repertoire…
- 3 to 4 apricots, sliced thin
- 1 large nectarine, sliced thin
- 1 large lime, sliced thin
Place the sliced fruits into a large glass pitcher.
- 1 bottle sauvignon blanc
- 1 cup lemonade
- 1 cup orange juice
- 2 cups passion fruit juice
Add the wine, lemonade, orange and passion fruit juice in the pitcher.
Let the liquid sit in the pitcher in the fridge for a couple of hours before serving.
Pomegranate Margarita
This drink is courtesy of my dearest husband who is a great mixologist.
Whenever we have people over, I cook and he makes fabulous drinks- it is a great combination. He loves coming up with different, delicious concoctions.
Recently some friends went to Mexico city and got us a very nice tequila. My husband was super happy to get a great quality tequila and couldn’t wait to give it a test run.
The same friends invited us over for a cook out and my hubby decided to make a pomegranate margarita concoction and take it to their house to serve right before dinner.
The pomegranate margaritas were delicious- perfectly mixed with the right amount of alcohol, lime juice and sweetness.
This drink will be ideal to serve for Memorial Day.
For one drink:
- 2 ounces pomegranate liquor
- 1 ounce Reposado tequila
- ½ ounce Triple sec
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed limejuice
- 1 tablespoon simple syrup
- ½ cup crushed ice
- Sea or kosher salt for the glass rim on a flat plate
- Half a lime
Add the pomegranate liquor, tequila, triple sec, limejuice, simple syrup and ice in a shaker. Shake well. In the meantime, cover the glass rim with limejuice from the half lime. Dip the glass rim in the salt and pour the drink and serve.
If you want the drink frozen and blended- add all the ingredients into a blender including the ice. Blend till smooth and pour into a salted glass.
Perfect Summer Drink Recipe: Red Sangria
When I think of summer, Sangria comes to mind- so when Memorial Day quickly came our way, it was time to make some! I have been thinking/talking about Sangria for a few weeks now. During a street fair in our town, a local wine store was having a Sangria tasting. A new product was being launched- I was quite skeptical about what was about to come out of the red wine like bottle. I tasted it and was pleasantly surprised! It was very good- the nice man told me about the mixed drink and how it only had red wine and fruit puree. I wanted to buy it thinking how easy it would be to open a bottle of sangria in a moments notice but of course the mixologist in our family- my husband wouldn’t hear of it! He wanted to make his own, even though he admitted the bottled one was pretty good. I had looked up several recipes including one with passion fruit puree- which jumped out at me immediately since passion fruit is my all time favorite fruit. I don’t get to eat it too often around here and when I do, it’s very expensive but it is SO worth every penny- if you have never tasted a real passion fruit you have to try it- it is kind of a mix between a mango, guava and a peach but a lot better and intense! Anyway, I suggested the recipes to my husband but he refused and wanted to do research himself and come up with his own concoction. We went out to the ironbound section of Newark for a fabulous Portuguese/Spanish meal on Saturday and had a great tasting sangria there- it was not very intense in alcohol but was delicious. It reminded me of the sangria we had in Barcelona- it was our first day there and we had just unpacked and settled into our apartment. To keep awake we decided to walk to the popular area of Las Rambla. After a while we sat down in the median at a cafe and indulged in the biggest glasses of sangria I had ever seen! It was the most delicious sangria I have ever had. While in the Newark restaurant, I asked the waiter for the ingredients and they were quite standard- wine, simple syrup and fruit- quite easy to replicate at home.
My husband’s concoction was extremely delicious- it was tangy and sweet and the alcohol was apparent as well. A very well balanced drink that went really well with salsa and guacamole and chorizo burgers- recipes to come in the next week or so. I predict a lot of sangria in our future this summer!