Lilac Wine

March 8th, 2012

Weekend Wine Frothy

This recipe looks amazing. Although I find it funny how I never drink anymore and yet love searching up cocktail recipes.

1. Wine - white, rose or red. Sparkling is okay too, but be careful of the fizz when blending
2. Frozen fruit
3. Frozen Juice Ice Cubes - You can also use ginger ale or coconut water ice cubes
4. Fresh banana - The banana adds a creamy frothiness, similar to how bartenders like to use egg whites. Only the banana is much healthier and tastier in my opinion
5. Optional ingredients can include spices (ginger or cayenne) herbs (mint) sweeteners (maple syrup) and other accents like lemon juice or zest.

Give a frothy a try and have fun creating flavor combos. Try..

Mint Grapefruit Juice Chardonney
Blueberry Pinot
Spicy Ginger Frozen Peach Rose
Apple Lemon White
Raspberry Cabernet

Tropical Ginger Pineapple Frothy

8 ounces white wine
1/2 cup frozen pineapple
1/2 banana
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp maple syrup
1 cup ginger ale ice cubes

Have fun experimenting with these choices. I know I will!

March 2nd, 2012

Watermelon and Kiwi Sparkling Wine Sorbet

Here are two different types of sorbet I found. My Mum’s visiting Auckland soon so I thought I’d gather a few sorbet recipes/dessert recipes seeing as she loves that kind of stuff. No doubt you guys will too!

For the Watermelon Sorbet, you’ll need:

1 1/2 cups Sparkling Wine (also known as Proseco)
A tiny bit more than 1/4 cup of Agave Nectar
2 cups of fresh Watermelon juice - you can drain it through a sieve if wanted
3 Basil leaves - cut or whole

1. Mix the sparkling wine and agave nectar in a saucepan and heat on medium heat until it comes to a boil and stir for 2-3 minutes. Leave it to cool for a few minutes.

2. Once the mix is cooled, add the watermelon juice and basil leaves and give it a good stir. Now either place it in the freezer for a few hours (2-3) and pour the mix into an ice cream maker or place it in the freezer and stir every 30 minutes. Similar to my Vanilla Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe

For the Kiwifruit Sorbet you’ll need:

2 cups sparkling wine
A bit more than a 1/4 cup agave nectar
2 cups of fresh Kiwifruit juice - again it’s optional to run it through a sieve

Combine the sparkling wine and agave nectar in a saucepan once again and heat it over medium heat until it comes to a boil. Again stir for 2-3 minutes and then let cool.

Now add the kiwifruit juice and the remaining steps are the same as the watermelon sorbet instructions.

(via gastrogirl)

February 28th, 2012

Grape and Champagne Sorbet

This is a must make!

You’ll need:

550g black seedless grapes (Well I guess you can do with seeds but the seeds do taste pretty bad)
1 glass of champagne
1/2 Cup Sugar

1. Place the grapes, champagne and sugar in a saucepan and place it on medium heat. Wait for it to boil then let the mix simmer on low heat for around 10 minutes. During this time the skins of the grapes should be floating off.

2. Now drain the mix with a sieve and then press all the grapes with a spoon or fork to so all the juice inside is squeezed out.

3. At this point, you can either leave the mixture to cool in the fridge and then pour into an ice cream maker if you have one

You can place the mix directly into the freezer and take it out for a stir every 30 minutes. Similar to my recipe of making Vanilla Strawberry Ice Cream

Now you can serve!