Can I be on strike? The tree has already come down, the decorations away, my local gym suddenly packed with New Years Eve resolution-ers who I truly hope make it more than a few weeks. I’ve seen Valentine’s decorations on display and Easter candy end caps (seriously… Easter people? It’s January. We all know those Cadbury eggs aren’t making it to no basket.) And I realized as I look around my jingle-stripped house that I wasn’t ready to pack up the Santas and tinsel quite yet. I wasn’t ready to start the to-do lists and the 2014 projects and plans. I just want to spend a little more time enjoying the holidays.
So as my pitcher of pomegranate awesomeness sits in the fridge for me alone, I am wondering if next year I need to get hohoho-d sooner, or if I need to take a step back and sit down for a few minutes longer, or if maybe my celebrating will be done a week or two after everyone else id done, when I can sit back and savor it.
This Pomegranate Fizz should have been up a week ago, for New Years, on a table packed for a party (well, the one it’s sitting on, the pictures just didn’t come in time) as a fantastic cocktail for you and your friends to enjoy as part of the #captainstable challenge to help the good Captain himself dig into his treasure chest and donate to help end hunger. But I thought I missed the deadline and… well, here we are! So, go on, retweat the recipes you see with hashtag #captainstable – for every RT we get, a dollar is donated! Harness that social media!
Pomegranate Fizz for #captainstable
Ingredients
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1
cup
pomegranate juice
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1/2
cup
cranberry simple syrup
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1
cup
rum
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4
cups
cranberry ginger ale
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ice
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orange slices
cranberries, or pomegranate seeds for garnish
Instructions
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In a large pitcher or punch bowl, stir together the pomegranate juice, simple syrup, and rum over ice.
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Ladle or pour into individual glasses and top off with cranberry ginger ale to fill. (if serving punch style, I would just add the cranberry ginger ale to the bowl).
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Garnish with desired fruits.
Pomegranate Fizz for #captainstable
Ingredients
- 1 cup pomegranate juice
- 1/2 cup cranberry simple syrup
- 1 cup rum
- 4 cups cranberry ginger ale
- ice
- orange slices cranberries, or pomegranate seeds for garnish
Instructions
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In a large pitcher or punch bowl, stir together the pomegranate juice, simple syrup, and rum over ice.
-
Ladle or pour into individual glasses and top off with cranberry ginger ale to fill. (if serving punch style, I would just add the cranberry ginger ale to the bowl).
-
Garnish with desired fruits.
How fun, that looks awesome!
Before we get to your fizziness, don’t you think there’s something a little wrong with saying you got ‘hohoho-d’? 🙂 Anyhooo, I do love the drink. It may be a tad early in the day, but I can see me having one (or two) of these after Dudette goes to bed. What a fantastic combination.
Hahaha, sometimes I just like to see if anyone picks up on these sort of things 😀
I think I’m going to need to get me a pitcher of this to place on my bottom shelf. I honestly think Turkey Day through me off this year. I decorated two weeks late and wasn’t ready for it to come down when it did. I think I’m going to join the crazies and start 2 weeks before T Day next year. Are ya with me? Love this drink.
Your photography is stunning.
And yes I think as bloggers we need to celebrate a week or 2 later when all the craziness ends. I could use a little sippity sip right now.
Ooo that sounds delicious. Let’s have one together, shall we?? I’m not ready to be tree-less either. 🙁 It is comical to hear the needles fall to the ground on their own!
Hubby and I decided the holidays slipped by WAY too fast. We never really truly enjoyed Christmas or New Years. I love this cocktail, and it would be fantastic anytime of the year:-) Hugs,Terra