This recipe uses fresh watermelon,  which ties in with the watermelon vodka. You can easily substitute the fresh fruit for your preferred vodka flavor, which can be blueberry, passion fruit, grape, and others. Just be sure to match the fresh fruit to the vodka flavor. All the other ingredients remain static.

INGREDIENTS:

•            1/2 (750 milliliter) bottle dry white wine

•            1/3 cup  watermelon flavored vodka

•            3 tablespoons frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed

•            2 tablespoons white sugar

•            1/2 pound watermelon, seedless and sliced

•            1/2 cup  seedless red grapes, halved

•            1/2 cup  seedless green grapes, halved

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DIRECTIONS:

1.            In a large pitcher, combine dry white wine, flavored vodka, lemonade concentrate and sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Add sliced fruit, red and green grapes.

2.            Refrigerate sangria until well chilled, at least 2 hours, or overnight to blend flavors. Serve over ice, and use a slotted spoon to include sliced fruits and grapes with each serving.

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Ingredients

12 oz. Sierra Mist Diet Lemon Lime soda (you can try others–Sierra Mist seems very close to the real thing)

2 tablespoons diet  cherry syrup (available at BevMo or some grocery stores)

2/3rds of a fresh lime, sliced in half (2-1/3 slices)

1 packet Slenda

Crushed ice

Instructions

Fill a 16oz glass about 2/3rds full with crushed ice. Dump the ice in a blender. If you don’t have an ice crusher, use the blender as a crusher (you may have to break up the ice with a hammer with the ice in a towel first)  then test the quantity by filling the glass 2/3rds full prior to adding the other ingredients. To the blender with crushed ice, add the soda, syrup, 1/2 a packet of Spenda, and squeeze the juice of 1/3rd of a lime into the mixture. Blend on the pulse setting, just enough to mix everything well and crush the ice a little more. Pour the finished limeade into the glass, squeeze the remaining 1/3rd lime into the glass and drop it in. If you need additional sweetening, add the remainder of the Splenda, and stir in quickly.

No more of those “emergency” trips to Sonic!

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