Summer Sangria

My friend Tori was gracious enough to share this tasty sangria recipe with us for Tasty Tuesday. Sangria happens to be my #1 favorite alcoholic drink (with Champagne, PBR, Heffenweisen and fuzzy navels close in second). Enjoy! – R

Sangria – the best drink for summer days or sitting in your apartment and trying to pretend you’re in the Hawaiian Islands on vacation. This is my own recipe for the perfect fruity, delicious, and booze-filled sangria.

You’ll Need:
1 bottle light rum
1 bottle cheap red zinfandel
1 bottle cheap white zinfandel
2 pears
1 orange
1 lemon
1 lime
1 3/4 cups of sugar
a large pitcher or container

Step One:
Take a shot glass and the rum and pour yourself a rum and coke. The sangria won’t be ready for about 24 hours, you know.

Step Two:
Cut up fruit. The pears are the crucial part of this recipe so use at least two. More is fine. Also, you can add an apple if you have one around. Put them in the pitcher until it’s half full or until you’re out of fruit. Dump sugar on top of the fruit.

Step Three:
Measure out 1 1/2 to 2 cups of rum and pour it over the fruit. Then pour in both bottles of wine.

But don’t get excited yet. If you take a sip, it’ll taste like strong cheap wine. It needs to sit for about 24 hours in your fridge so it can absorb the fruit flavors. After that, you want to pull the fruit out or it gets nasty and rots. Trust me, I learned that the hard way.
Is it covered?
Is it in your fridge?
Good.
Clean up the mess, enjoy your rum and coke, and tomorrow you can have a nice, refreshing glass of sangria.