Easy Drink Recipes: Fruity Sangria

Ingredients:

• 1 bottle red wine
• 1-1/2 cups orange juice
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup Brandy
  
• 1 lemon, sliced
• 2 nectarines or peaches pitted and cut into wedges
• 1 orange, sliced
• 1 lime, sliced
• 3 cups Seltzer or Club Soda
• Ice cubes
  

Mixing Instructions:

1. In a 3 or 4 quart pitcher, combine wine, orange juice, Brandy, and sugar.
2. Stir until sugar dissolves.
3. Stir in fruit and cucumber.
4. Cover and refrigerate until well chilled, at least 3 hours or overnight.

To serve, stir Seltzer or Club soda into pitcher. Fill glasses with ice and pour Sangria overtop.

Easy Drink Recipes: Hot Spiced Tea

You could actually consider this to be more of a Chai tea.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of water
• 1 piece of fresh ginger (if not available use 1/8 teaspoon of powdered Ginger)
  
• 4 Ceylon or black tea bags (our favorite is Lipton)
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 8 whole cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon black peppercorns
• 2 cups milk
• 1/4 cup honey

Cooking Instructions:

1. In a large saucepan bring water and the ginger to a boil.
2. Reduce heat and simmer approximately 6 to 8 minutes.
3. Add tea bags, cinnamon stick, whole cloves, peppercorns, and milk.
4. Steep over medium to low heat about 5 minutes.
5. Strain through a fine strainer or sieve and discard the solid pieces.
6. Stir in the honey (more or less to taste).
7. Pour into mugs.

Serve hot and garnish with a cinnamon stick to use as a stirrer (optional).

Easy Mixed Berry Smoothie Drink Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup cranberry juice drink
• 3/4 cup frozen mixed berries (strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries)
• 1 container of berry-flavored yogurt (6 oz)

Mixing Instructions:

1. Combine all ingredients in a blender.
2. Blend for a few second on high or until ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
3. Pour into a large glass or several small glasses.

Makes 2 servings depending on the size of the glass.

Easy Holiday Celebration Punch Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups cranberry/raspberry juice drink, chilled
• 2 cups red wine
• 1 cup Vodka
• 1/2 cup tangerine/grapefruit juice drink, chilled
• 1/4 cup spice rum
• 1/2 cup grapes, sliced in half
• 1/4 fresh cranberries
• 1 lemon, cut in slices
  
• 1 lime, cut in slices
  
• 1 orange, cut in slices
  
• 1 apple, cut in slices
  
• 1 cup sparkling water or club soda

Mixing Instructions:

1. Combine first 5 ingredients in a large punch bowl.
2. Add fruit.
3. Add sparkling water just before serving.

Makes approximately ten 5-ounce servings.

Easy Drink Recipes: Bahama Mama

Drink Ingredients:

• 1/2 oz Gold Rum
• 1/2 oz Coconut Rum
• 1/2 oz Banana Liqueur
• 1/2 oz Grenadine
• 1 oz orange juice
• 1 oz pineapple juice
  

Blending Instructions: Mix all ingredients together in an electric mixer with ice until slushy in appearance.

Glass Suggestion: Collins

Garnish Suggestion: Long Straw, or stirrer with fruit