We went back and forth for a couple of days (thinking, not drinking). Dessert drink, or aperatif? I don't like really sweet drinks, so we nixed the Godiva and other sugary cordials. I do like fruit, and we kept rounding back to the champagne. It is sparkling snark, after all. Grenadine? Ewww, tastes awful with champagne. Peach liqueur? Too sweet. Besides, the Bellini has been around for years. I went downstairs to my liquor shelf to see what I had. Eureka! Passion Fruit liqueur that someone brought over two Christmases ago! It's exotic, it's relatively obscure, and it has just a little sweetness! What else? Snark is definitely red. but cranberry juice is hackneyed (Cosmos, anyone?). Pomegranate! Trendy, red, and definitely snarky.
So my friends, just in time for Christmas and New Years, I give you The Original Gorgeous Things Blogtail,
The Sparkling Snark
1 teaspoon Passion Fruit Liqueur
1 ounce Pomegranate Juice
Champagne
Carambola fruit (also called star fruit) for garnish (optional)
Pour the Passion Fruit Liqueur and the Pomegranate juice into a champagne flute. Fill to the top with champagne. Garnish with a slice of carambola. Drink and enjoy!
Notice that my sample is missing the carambola? Turns out my kids really like it. I started slicing, and the slices disappeared. Sigh. Well, you can also garnish by floating a couple of pomegranate seeds on top.
In the words of my two favorite bloggers, Tom and Lorenzo:
MERRY CHRISTMAS, Poodles!
9 comments:
The Perfect Premier Blogtail! Love the elements, I've got to try the combo.
Damn! I have to go to work and I want one of these! Only you would have the perfect "blogtail" I will be serving these when the family shows up after xmas, if I haven't drank them all myself!
This has been the season of the pomegranate martini (with Tito's Handmade Vodka of course) for me, but now I'll have to switch to Sparkling Snarks!
My kids love Carambola too! they inhale it whenver it's in the kitchen. I love the dark red at the bottom of the glass.
Beautiful! The hubby and I are still giggling ... and contemplating buying the ingrediants!
Let's all have a few and then post to the blog. Blogtail indeeed!
mmmmmmmm....Cheers!
The TN faction tried to get passionfruit liquor last night: no such thing on the shelves of the liquor store 30 miles away. We live in a "dry county" where such things as liquor stores are prohibited so we are making our verson on Christmas morning from Champagne, pomegranate and black current juice. We did find some truly awful Pomegranate Schnapps, tho. Pass on that, though!
We get to have star fruit: no kiddos in the house and the dog doesn't like it.
Merry Christmas!
I love it! I can't wait to try it out. I like the idea of the pomegranate seeds for the garnish... floating around in the top of the glass looking all snarky.
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