Recipe: Summer White Sangria

If you work in the service industry, then you know the weekend is basically synonymous with work. So in honour of summer my friend Simona and made a weekend of our own, on a Monday. Since Monday is pretty much the most universally detested day of the week, we spiced it up with some fun food festivities (and numerous impulse purchases).

After aimlessly strolling through the grocery store for longer than I'd care to admit, we purchased a variety of meats, snacks and useless items  to prepare for dinner. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending who you ask) our eyes were way larger than our stomachs (debatable) because we ended up purchasing enough food to last through a minor zombie apocalypse. As such, dinner turned into a serious multi-hour preparational affair.

One of several meats we grilled

Veg prep

 Luckily, we started our culinary cooking adventure with the gift that keeps on giving: sangria.

Summer White Sangria

Ingredients

• 1.5 litres of white wine (we used Jackson Triggs Pinot Grigio)
• 1 cup Peach Schnapps
• 6 cans of San Pellegrino Aranciata or any citrus soda
• 2-3 cups of fresh berries (strawberries, blackberries, blueberries and raspberries)
• 2 mid-sized oranges

Preparation
Rinse fruit and halve strawberries. Cut oranges into circular rings, then cut in half. Add fruit into a large juice container then add approximately 3 cups of wine and two cups of San Pellegrino. Add a 1/4 cup of peach Schnapps. Stir to combine and refrigerate to allow flavours to merry. Or just drink it as is, if you're impatient and it's hot (#nojudgement). 

Sangria disclaimer: Sangria is pretty much impossible to screw up. Feel free to play around with the ratios, adding more or less soda, fruit or wine to your liking. 

Bathing fruits in wine

The almost finished product