A firm favourite christmas drink has to be mulled wine. Its Infused with the christmasy winter spices and it ensures to keep you warm during this winter period. Today I will sharing my recipe. For me this was the first time I made it and I think it turned out very well. If you do not drink alcohol you can substitute the wine with equal amounts of cranberry and apple juice. Right then, on to the recipe!
Ingredients :
One bottle of wine
150g brown sugar
1 cinnamon stick
5 cloves
4 cardamon pods
2 star anise
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 orange - peel and juice
1 lemon - peel
1 lime - peel
small piece of ginger
1) In a pan add the sugar, lemon, lime and orange peels along with the orange juice. Warm mixture on a medium heat until the sugar has dissolved.
2) Add the cinnamon stick, cloves, cardamon, star anise and nutmeg, along with quarter of the wine. Also add the ginger but be sure to cut into it so the flavours can be released. Bring this to a boil to form and syrup.
3) Turn down the heat add the remaining wine and bring to a simmer. Do not boil because all the alcohol content will disappear and we don't want that! Simmer for 2 minutes, turn off and cover with a lid. Let it sit for a hour, so everything infuses.
4) After the hour you can sieve the bits out and warm up without boiling and serve!
Hope you guys have a great christmas, be sure to check out all our other christmas posts :)
Can you believe its already December! This year has flown by so quickly and to be honest i'm quite glad its nearly over, this year has been full of highs and quite a few lows (especially for me). But anyways enough of the negativity!
Its December and that can only mean one thing...its officially the start of the christmas month. This month our blog will be dedicated to everything christmasy and festive in order to bring some christmas cheer to everyone who reads our blog :)
Today I shall be kicking things off with my top 10 christmas songs. I loveeeeeeee christmas songs, they just fill you up with happiness, warmth and christmas cheer. So here is my perfect soundtrack to get you in the christmas spirit hope you enjoy :)
10. Kicking things of at number 10 is jingle bell rock- mean girls style!
So there is a story behind this, It was christmas 2012, and we were going to a christmas bar crawl or something like that and my flat mates at the time were like right Amreeta, we're dressing up like these four. So that night we went out with our hats on and knee high socks and to be honest I don't remember the rest of the night but it must of been a good one ;)
9. winter wonderland - Tony Bennett
This makes me want to snuggle up on the sofa with a warm blanket and watch home alone.
8. Sleigh ride - The Ronettes
7. Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
I love her voice, I love her. There's something so Hollywood-esque about this song.
6. Dean Martin - Let it Snow
This always reminds me end of the year school assembly's, This was the song they always playing (without fail every year!) when you left the hall. Anyone else that agrees?
5. Brenda Lee - Rockin Around the christmas tree
4. Destiny's Child - 8 days of christmas
Hand's down I thought destiny's child's were sooooooo cool! I loved watching the video as a kid. Can I just add this song came out 14 years ago!!!!
3. Mariah carey - all I want for christmas is you
2. Wham - last christmas
1. Frozen Let it go
All hail the new cool christmas song for 2014! You know I had to put this one at number 1!
I also wanted to add another song, this year band aid created this song to help with the Ebola crisis, so please go check it out and buy the original single.
I hope you liked my top 10, please leave in the comments below which one is your favourite and if i've missed any out, until next week have a nice week guys. Ohh and we just hit 400 followers on bloglovin, so thank you so much! We really appreciate every single one of you that takes the time out to read our little blog :)
