This week, on the Romance Writers Weekly blog hop, we're asked to, "Choose one of your characters and share their favourite summer drink recipe."
Shockingly, this one is easy! I have characters in two separate books (which happen to be in two separate series) that each have mentioned the same summery drink choice: Sangria!
Allegra (from Que Será, Syrah) actually wrote a song about it (which is sung to the melody from How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria):
How Do You Make a Pitcher of Sangria?
How do you make a pitcher of sangria?
What do you need besides the perfect wine
(Something that’s young and bright and not too oaky)
A cinnamon stick, some fizzy water, a lime?
Plenty of recipes will tell you one thing,
Plenty of them will tell you the reverse.
But, where do you set the bar?
Is mango a fruit too far?
Do we need an extra bottle to rehearse?
Oh, how do you make a pitcher of sangria?
How do you make that sweet, sweet, summer wine?
I'm mixing things up a bit with my recipe, however, and urging you to try frozen sangria.
For the ingredients you'll need:
1 bottle wine
3 cups frozen fruit (I suggest peaches and either blackberries or cherries)
1/3 cup orange liqueur like Triple Sec
1/2 cup orange juice
And then sweeten to taste using 2 – 3 tablespoons of something like simple syrup or agave nectar (honey and sugar just don't dissolve like they should.
First you'll want to freeze some of the wine--an ice cube tray worth of wine should be enough--overnight. And chill the rest of the bottle while you're doing so. When you're ready to drink it, blend the frozen wine and the frozen fruit, add the rest of the ingredients and there you have it.
Now, hop on over to Jill Haymaker's page to find out what her charaters are drinking this summer. And don't forget to check out her book, Colorado Sunset, which is FREE for the next two days!
FREE EBOOK AUGUST 5-6COLORADO SUNSET
Go back to where it all began, with this first book in my Peakview Series. When June’s car breaks down near the tiny town of Peakview, Colorado, she hopes to find a mechanic but finds so much more in the handsome rancher, Jeff Walker. Could it be that this unexpected stop will turn into a forever home?
Meet the Martinelli sisters: Rosa, Bianca and Allegra. These partners in wine have just inherited a once-storied winery in the heart of Napa Valley. They’re living the dream, right?
Not so fast! Because, as it turns out, not everybody is happy for them. And that includes their Uncle Geno who’d assumed the property would come to him.
There are hoops to jump through, barrels to get over, and a mountain of regulations they'll have to scale. But the sisters are crushing it—and we don’t just mean the grapes. They’re making wine, falling in love, and working together to restore their inheritance to its former glory, one pour decision at a time.
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