Ingredients
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 cup club soda
- 1 cup unsweetened pomegranate juice
- 1/2 cup vodka
- 3 tablespoons fresh Key lime juice (about 3 limes)
- Crushed ice
- Key lime slices (optional)
Preparation
Combine sugar and 1/4 cup water in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 2 minutes or just until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat; cool.
Combine sugar syrup, club soda, pomegranate juice, vodka, and lime juice. Place crushed ice in a martini shaker; add about 3/4 cup pomegranate mixture. Cover and shake. Strain into a glass. Garnish with lime slice, if desired. Repeat procedure with remaining pomegranate mixture.
Serves 4
Calories per cocktail: 153
Source & Image: cookinglight.com
Written by Lea Barlow •
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Name: Angye Fox
Kids: Son, PJ, 8 years old
Occupation: Serial Entrepreneur (I’ve started and sold over 30 businesses in my lifetime)
Hometown: Green Bay, Wisconsin (Go Cheeseheads!) Live in another Bay now. Tampa Bay!
H&H Interview with Angye:
1. What are the top 3 items in your grocery cart?
Salad, Steak and Alfredo Sauce (my son loves it!)
2. What are you reading (honestly)?
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
3. What is your guilty pleasure when you get a break from the kids?
Dressing up sexy for a Girl’s Night Out with my gal pals!
4. What would we be surprised to find in your purse?
A cigar cutter and torch lighter. I teach women how to smoke cigars on a YouTube show called “Fluff & Puff”.
5. What is your favorite reality TV show?
American Idol
6. What is your cocktail of choice?
Ketel One Vodka Dirty Martini up with one stuffed olive
7. What is the funniest thing your kids have said or done lately?
PJ was playing XBox Live this summer when I asked him to go to bed. It was midnight. He was upset because the friend he was playing with online didn’t have to go to bed yet. I said, “Don’t try me, PJ. Your pal lives in California and he’s three time zones behind us!”
8. What is your favorite quotation?
Sex sells. But sexy REALLY sells!
9. What are you currently working out to on your iPod?
Lady Gaga. She is a powerhouse!
10. Who is your favorite celebrity mom and why?
Kathy Lee Gifford. I love how she has her son, Cody, working on the set of the Today Show.
It reminds me of my relationship with my son. PJ loves that I’m a business owner and he often attends business functions with me. He also has his own business card and sports talk show. PJSportsTalk.com
11. What is something most people don’t know about you?
I’m working on my private pilot’s license. I’ve always wanted to fly since I was a little girl. Now I’m making my dream come true!
12. What is your secret to staying Hot & Healthy?
Surrounding myself with positive minded friends, exercising regularly with my neighbor ladies, and drinking lots of water. Plus an occasional martini!!!!
Written by Lea Barlow •
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Name: BITCH Grenache
Alcohol content: A flammable 15.5%
Price: $9.99
Description per label: Bitch 42x
Review:
Last night, I was asked to attend a tasting at a fellow wine enthusiast’s duplex as a favor to lend the event some credibility. The theme was wines of West Virginia and I was the Key Note drinker. After tasting literally dozens of piss-poor blends, squabbling with my contemporaries about the life span of Riesling and being rogered by the hostess for parking my Austin Healey in the front hedge , I was all too inclined towards total inebriation. As I’ve articulated in the past, I have a proclivity towards the gimmicky labeled libations. When I saw the bottle of BITCH Grenache it reminded me of the disposition of the event’s hostess. I stole the ten-dollar bottle of aged grape juice and headed for the community porch where I remained for the rest of the evening.
For those not in the know, a Grenache is the less popular, overweight cousin of cabernet and merlot. The wine is best served with dessert or as an aperitif. I would warn that drinking this varietal on an empty stomach could lead to the same burning sensation one could expect from sipping kerosene. This bitchy blend is a wino’s wet dream loaded to the screw off cap with alcohol. The ruby-colored varietal boasts a bouquet of smoke with hints of rhubarb and cherry. Notes of citrus and raspberry hit the palette and a fleshy twang of clove surprises on the finish. This is the sort of rocket fuel that can make a simple dessert go from small talk to total loss of decorum after a few large glasses. As a serious professional, I’ve posited that gimmick wines are a fool’s game, but this provocative and aptly named Grenache goes for the grapes and leaves you hung-to-the-O.
On the world-renowned SMS scale (1-10) I rate this Bitch a 6. It drinks like a four but I added two points for style.
Suggested pairings: Vanilla Bean ice cream, chocolate cake and an Ambien.
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