For some strange reason on Friday morning I decided to make some sangria (I think the reason may have been so I could use up some bad wine I had in the cellar). I did a quick Google search for a good sangria recipe since I had never really made sangria before, and as you would imagine thousands of results were returned. A quick look at a few of the recipes confirmed my other suspicion: there are thousands of variations of how to make “sangria”. It seems the only things all these recipes had in common were fruit (whole and/or juice), liquor (brandy, vodka, rum, etc…) and wine (usually red). So I was pretty much on my own (not that I have ever been known to follow recipes). Here is what I did:
In a pitcher I put:
- Fresh raspberries
- Fresh strawberries
- 1 lime, cut into wedges
- ½ cup orange juice
- ½ mango sliced up
- ½ cup sugar
Then I added the liquor. In this case:
- Splash mango rum
- Splash raspberry rum
- Splash coconut rum
- ¾ cup white rum (Bacardi)
(We have all sorts of random fruit-flavored liquors in the cabinet left over from various parties and visitors. I think this may be the perfect way to finally use them all up!)
Then dumped in the crappy wine (which splashed on my skirt because I was too dumb to put on an apron, which lead to me telling the story all day of how I spilled wine on myself that morning and that is why I was wearing the wrong skirt). I later learned when talking to a sangria-making-friend that using cheap wine is the best way to go.
I served the sangria that night (I think you usually let it sit longer, but it was good) over ice with just a little ginger ale. Photos would be nice, maybe next time. Or maybe I will go home and make more so I can take photos.