sangria you’re the devil
I feel like shit today. I felt awful this morning and I took a 3-hour nap and now it’s 2 hours after that and I still feel like shit. I think I’m gonna go back to bed.
A couple of nights ago I had this craving for sangria, which I love and rarely get unless I’m at a Spanish restaurant, which isn’t very often, so I decided to make some and it came out GREAT. About a bottle of merlot, lemon simple syrup, brandy, 7-up, and merlot simple syrup (merlot:sugar in a 1:1 ratio, reduced by about 1/3 until it’s nice and syrupy, with a little vanilla tossed in–this goes great over fruit and ice cream all by itself too), which really made the whole thing fantastic. All steeped over two kinds of oranges (Mineola and Valencia), nectarines, and both black and red plums.
God it’s good. Unfortunately, when I was getting the pitcher out of the cabinet, I cracked it. So I just made this in several food-storage containers I had in the cupboard but I didn’t realize just how much they held, so now I have half a gallon of sangria to drink. I can really only drink about two glasses at a time–if even that much–before I feel that I’d like to go lie down. So now I’m going to have to be drinking sangria for weeks.
I assure you that the sangria has nothing to do with why I feel like shit today. It DOESN’T.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Sounds tasty, but a little sweet. Does the fruit and ice (I’m assuming this is poured over ice) mellow it out a bit? That pain your feeling may be your body comming off a major sugar high.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:52 am
It’s not really that sweet. I mean, it’s sweeter than plain red wine but it’s not all that sweet overall. Plus I only had a couple of glasses the night before and that was hours earlier. I had had several coffees with pounds of sugar in them since drinking the wine, as is my usual habit, so any lack of sugar and resulting withdrawal was remedied by the coffees.
I feel fine today though. I think I was dehydrated a little, which made my insides feel worse than they were doing all on their own.