Recipe of The Week: Wine Slushies

My recipe of the week for you this week is WINE SLUSHIES! Ever get a bottle of wine that just isn’t quite as tasty as you’d like? I found the cure! I had a bottle of inexpensive red sangria that was only so-so (drinkable, but more so after you ma de it through the first two glasses!). So in a vain attempt to find a recipe using the Spartan ingredients I had on hand (hey, it’s a one hour round trip excursion to the store – ya don’t just run out for frozen lemonade just ‘cause you want a cold refreshing adult beverage on a Tuesday night!) I googled! I treasure my findings…

Wine Slushy

 Ingredients 

• 1 bottle of wine (750 ml) 
• 1.25 to 1.75 cups sugar 
• 1 tsp citric acid
• 3 cups (730 ml) water 

Directions

1. Whisk or shake well the sugar and citric acid. Use enough sugar to suit your taste –if your wine is already sweet use less sugar. 
2. Add the water. Stir / shake / blend. 
3. Pour into freezer safe containers (I used a glass bowl and plastic food containers but then the next batch I just used a 1.5L wine bottle and slightly less water). 
4. Freeze for 3 to 6 hours. 

I was impatient and enjoyed slushy-slushies after about 90 minutes in the deep freeze. The citric acid gives it a tart lemony flavor and...OMGosh! this is just the perfect wine slushy! Forget about buying those mixes for $12 – this will be my  beverage of the week every week! (I can just see me sitting around the pool or patio with Katie, Mandy, and my Mom sipping this, talking, laughing, and enjoying life! Stephanie, you and Gina would love this too! Let's make some soon!)