Monthly Archives: August 2005

Watermelon Strawberry Sangria

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Perfect for a hot day, this sweet / tangy drink cools you right off, and goes straight to your head.

Serves 4 :

  • Bottle of white wine
  • 1/8 of a watermelon, removed from rind
  • 8 strawberries quartered
  • 1 lime
  • 2 cups seltzer water
  • 1/4-1/2 cup melon liquor
  • 1/4 cup of sugar

    • empty wine into pitcher

    add chopped fruit

    juice lime into pitcher, and add juiced fruit to pitcher.

    Add melon liquer.

    Mix in sugar.

    Chill for 2 hrs in fridge, to allow flavors to meld.

    add seltzer, serve.

    Garnish w/ thin mellon slices.

Sangria de la Isle

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Made this for the first time with my friends on vacation, arrr… these can these sneak up on you.

Serves 4:

  • 1 bottle of wine (we used white)
  • 1 orange
  • 1 lime
  • 1 lemon
  • 1/2 cup of sugar
  • 2 cups seltser
  • 1/4-1/2 cup of spiced rum
  • cinnimon & nutmeg to taste

    • Pour wine in a pitcher.

    juice the orange, lime, lemon into the Pitcher.

    Add squeezed fruit to pitcher.

    Add rum.

    Mix in sugar and spices.

    Chill in fridge for a few hrs.

    Add seltzer, and serve. Garnish with fruit slices.