I'm not a big drinker anymore (despite working in a bar) but lately I've been getting down with the idea of just chilling out with a glass of wine at night. Because of the season, I've wanted to check out spiced wine, but never felt like taking the time to make it... till today! The dreary, gloom today seemed like the most appropriate weather to chill out in some thick wool socks with a warm mug (and also some sheeky Christmas tunes).
I followed Ina Garten's (I just googled to see if her name was legit, and it's actually Ina Rosenerg Garten, not even kidding) recipe, which you can find here, as a guideline, tho somewhat loosely because I was just making a personal portion instead of enough to serve 8.
My modified recipe included:
I only used maybe a third of an orange for juice instead of a whole like suggested, and instead of adding apple cider (which likely would've made a huge difference) I put more honey. Next time I'll definitely include the cider; I didn't realize how strong the taste of such a small amount of fresh orange juice (and less than a teaspoon of zest) would be. Not that I hate it, but I would've liked to taste more of the anise's licorice-y taste.
Since it only takes a little over 10 minutes for Snickerdoodles to cook (the pre-mix kind) and about 5 minutes to make, I figured why not throw some of those in the oven while I had the wine simmering on the stove! I'm clearly in a very cinnamon-y mood today.
I'm looking forward to playing around with my recipe amounts for the next few winter months. While the wine and cookies were awesome, I definitely wanted a more spicey warmth to the wine and too much orange kind of ruined that. If you're interested in trying out some mulled wine and aren't down with trial-ing and error-ing like I am, you can always purchase yourself some mulling spices like these Whole Foods ones that are premixed! I've heard them mentioned a few times recently so they must be good. :))
What holiday drinks do you look forward to??
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