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Cranberry Pomegranate Martini

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Thanksgiving is right around the corner or for many of us Thanksgivukkuh.  So here come some great recipes and ideas for our favorite two holidays!!
 
Every Thanksgiving my sisters and I like to create a new signatiure drink befitting of the season.  Susan found a recipe for cranberry simple syrup, picked up some pomegranate vodka and we were set.  As a granish we skewered whole cranberries on a drink pick and froze them.  It was a great extra touch and it really did make a good stirrer that kept our drinks cool. 
 
 
Cranberry Simple Syrup
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups fresh or frozen cranberries (8 ounces)      
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
 
Preparation:
In a medium saucepan, bring cranberries, sugar, and water to a simmer over medium. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook until cranberries are tender but haven't burst, 10 minutes. Let cool, then strain through a fine-mesh sieve. Discard cranberries.  Pour simple syrup in a small pitcher and reserve in the refrigerator until cocktail time.
 
Cranberry Pomegranate Martini
Ingredients:
1 oz Cranberry Simple Syrup
4 oz Pomegranate Vodka
ice
whole fresh cranberries skewered on a tooth pick or short skewer
 
Preparation:
Fill a cocktail shaker or anther container with ice.  Pour in 1oz of premade cranberry simple syrup and 4oz of pomegranate vodka.  Put on lid and shake for 15 seconds until nice and chilled.  Pour alcohol mixture without ice into a glass and add cranberry skewer for garnish.
 
 

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White Zinfandel Sangria

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It's FRIDAY!  How about a yummy sweet cocktail?

This sangria recipe never disappoints.  It's sweet, fruity and refreshing.  You can definitely change it up by adding a different flavor schnapps and/or wine and any type of fresh fruit that you would like.  Nanci and I made it recently with sauvignon blanc, sweet/sour watermelon schnapps and peaches, plums, lemons and grapes.  Delicious!

Ingredients:

1 750 ml bottle of chilled White Zinfandel
1/2 C peach schnapps
2 T Cointreau
2T sugar
2 cinnamon sticks, broken in half
1 lemon, sliced
1 orange, sliced
1 peach, sliced
1 10 oz bottle of chilled club soda
ice cubes

Preparation:

Mix first 8 ingredients in tall pitcher. Refrigerate at least 30 min to allow flavors to blend. Mix ib club soda. Pour over ice. Makes 6 servings.

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