You can easily make Alex Province’s sangria recipe your own. Use a red, white, or even a rosé wine. As long as the wine is unoaked, you’ll have a tasty sangria. Add the brandy or leave it out. Use any fruit you like to infuse the sangria with flavor: apples, melon, limes, lemons, peaches. Anything with a rind would be good.
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Cocktail: Fabulous Frozen Summer Punch
From Faith: Open your liquor cabinet and grab a bottle of your favorite spirit. Open the refrigerator and grab your favorite summer fruits. A little fresh mint and you have the makings of a fabulous frozen summer punch, thanks to our contributor, Anthony DeSerio. The fresh fruit flavor of this punch will make your guest think […]
Faith & Michelle’s Great Adventure
Faith has been talking about and tasting cocktails non-stop in recent months with Michelle Draper, the impressive and innovative bartender at Whitfield’s on the Guilford, Conn. Green. That’s why Faith asked Michelle to give us recipes for two of her most delicious creations, one featuring a creamy limoncello and the other starring a maple bourbon […]
Cocktail: Ginger Beer-Carrot Boat Rocker
From Faith: We loved the last carrot juice cocktail our contributor Anthony DeSerio made for us, and that had us wondering what else he might have up his sleeve… in an hour he created a health-conscious twist on the classic Dark & Stormy, combing three juices — carrot, grapefruit, and apple — with light rum and […]
Cocktail: Enjoy the Chilled Pomegranate Martini
From Faith: To start your training for the hottest party of the year, The Food Schmooze® Martini Competition this June, our bartender Anthony DeSerio created a swell pomegranate martini that looks like a party in the glass. “I was wandering through the produce aisle,” Anthony says, “eyeing all these great looking fresh juices but the second […]
Cocktail: Ginger-Carrot-Cinnamon & Spiced Rum
From Faith: All we did was ask our resident cocktail guy Anthony DeSerio to focus on fresh fruits and vegetables as mixers for drinks, and he started blazing a delicious trail for us all. We see chefs and bartenders collaborating more and more, the restaurant kitchen providing fresh veggie or fruit juices, though some bartenders are […]