Hello friends! Can you believe it’s September already? While most people are starting to say goodbye to Summer I cant wait stop hibernating (due to the hot summer months) and I’m more than ready to being outdoors. The real grilling season will start in a few weeks for us. You know, the kind of grilling where you can actually sit outside to eat while enjoying the nice weather? Yeah that kind.
I really cannot wait to enjoy the outdoors again!! That will probably start happening in about another month or so. For now, I hope the rest of the country enjoys the last 3 weeks of summer.
What about you? How are things on your side of the world? What do you look forward to in the next few months? Besides the Holidays of course 🙂
To tell you the truth I was envisioning a different type of setting for these photos. I wanted to shoot outdoors applying a beautiful backlight setting to these glasses….. but my dreams came crushing down when the weather report said we were going to hit 110 degrees. We actually hit 112 degrees in my part of town!!! No way in h.e. double toothpicks (literally lol) was I going to shoot outdoors especially when it involved a cold recipe. I don’t think the ice would have lasted more than one second in the glass! Plan B involved shooting indoors in the same ‘ol setting.
We had a family gathering yesterday for Labor Day and I served this delicious Sangria…. it was a hit! I can’t wait to make it again. Did you know that you can freeze watermelon? Yup, you can freeze it in chunks or just juice it and have it ready to serve later when watermelons are out of season. Freeze some strawberries while you’re at it ;). I used my blender to make the juice but you can use your preferred method for juicing. There are sooo many options available these days which I think it’s a good problem to have 😀
Speaking of freezing watermelon juice, I have my eyes set on this Juicer from Williams-Sonoma and I’m pretty sure this will be the next gadget I buy (shhh, my hubby doesn’t know it yet :)). They have so many kinds of juicers though so I’m not set on that one. Do you have a preference from this link?
If you’re like me, you can only eat so many vegetables! The idea of drinking vegetable/fruit juice to meet my daily requirements sound very attractive to me. I also think juicing is the perfect way to enjoy summer fruits/vegetables year round.
Just juice & enjoy!
Watermelon Strawberry Sangria
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 15 mins
Ingredients
- 4 cups of fresh seedless watermelon chunks (about a small watermelon)
- 1 pound strawberries, sliced, 1 cup reserved for garnish
- 1 cup vodka
- 1 cup fresh orange juice
- 1 bottle of cold rose wine
- 1 orange, sliced
- 1 lime, sliced
Instructions
- Place the watermelon, strawberries & 1/4 cup vodka in a blender; blend on high until very smooth. Strain the juice through a mesh strainer into a large pitcher.
- Pour the wine, remaining of vodka, and orange juice into the pitcher. Add the orange and lime slices and mix well to combine. Chill for at least 4 hours before serving.
- Right before serving add the reserved strawberries. Serve over ice.
-Hi. I just wanted to comment that your photos are beautiful. I like your recipes too and have pinned a couple already. Love the one for arroz con leche. I will be making the dulce de leche paletas pretty soon. Thank you.
Hi Alba! Your comment means a lot! Thank you so much for your feedback… You will just love the paletas! This reminds me to make them again soon myself lol! Thanks for stopping by and for pinning the recipes! XO, ana
Love the watermelon in there! Such a nice recipe 🙂
Everything, as always, looks fabulous! Funny you mention buying a juicer! I just returned ours to Macy’s and got my $200 refunded! Why? We told our internist, who is also a nutritionist about our juicing efforts! She really cautioned us against the practice because juicing removes all the nutrients founding the pulp that is removed in the process! So, caution! I thought you would want to know. Your work is so beautiful!
I have always been really boring and made a traditional red wine sangria.. I definitely have to broaden my horizons and try your watermelon and strawberry sangria. It looks and sounds delicious!
I could totally go for a glass of that. Hope you get some breezy weather soon!
O, no! I want the summer to last forever! I can’t stand the cold. It needs to be 80 degrees or higher ALWAYS! Haha!
Your photos always make me so envious! Teach me your beautiful ways 😀