Make a Cork Pop. Wink wink, nudge nudge by @momranscreaming

Here comes Valentine’s Day.  What better excuse to grab a bottle of Champagne to celebrate your current love affair?  Whether it be with your husband, yourself, Champagne in general, your picture of Brad Pitt, or whatever you can think of.  Personally, I’ll drink Champagne just to celebrate that it’s Tuesday. This one is a lovely, bubbly red color that fits right in with the “Holiday”.

Champagne Pomegranate Cocktail

1 sugar cube (or 1/2 tsp sugar)

1 oz.  Pomegranate Juice

Champagne to fill

Drop sugar into Champagne flute. Pour in pomegranate juice. Top off with Champagne.

An awesome  tip for this kind of cocktail is that you should save the expensive stuff to drink straight.  If you’re mixing it with something, use a less expensive American sparkling wine, Italian Prosecco, or my choice, a Spanish Cava ($8/bottle).  Just make sure it says Methode Champenoise, Charmat Method, or Method Tradicionale on the bottle. This ensures a fermentation that causes small bubbles to occur naturally. Small natural bubbles = less of a headache.  Large bubbles from forced carbonation = big bad headache.

Contributed by – Kellie Nelson.  Formerly of Mom Ran Out Screaming. That is to say, she let that blog die a slow and painful death this past fall while she blundered around trying to find something else to do. Thank goodness the Room 704 women dug something up!    Ever since she left the glamorous job of fine dining server eight years ago she has been seen around and about herding her three rabid monkeys.  She has a new blog in the works but hasn’t quite figured out how much of the population she would like to offend with it.

2 Responses to “Make a Cork Pop. Wink wink, nudge nudge by @momranscreaming”

1. middle-aged-woman says:

   02/04/2010 at 2:48 pm

   Great recipe! And there are antioxidants in pomegranate juice, so it’s like drinking vitamins.

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2. Al_Pal says:

   02/05/2010 at 6:28 pm

   Nice! Sounds Yum, and the bubble-size relation to headaches? I did not know that! Science, cool. ;D

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