{"id":17023,"date":"2014-12-12T08:37:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=17023"},"modified":"2014-12-12T08:37:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:37:56","slug":"pomberry-martini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2014\/12\/pomberry-martini\/","title":{"rendered":"PomBerry Martini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2014\/12\/pomberry-martini\/pom_gin3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17024 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/POM_Gin3.jpg\" alt=\"POMBerry Martini\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/POM_Gin3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/POM_Gin3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With my new habit of doing most of my grocery shopping at Costco (more details on that in the new year), I rediscovered pomegranate\u00a0juice. \u00a0It can totally be a pricey juice to purchase but Costco has the best prices for it and I&#8217;ve reintroduced it back into our lives. \u00a0Usually Scott and I end the day with some juice + seltzer. \u00a0It provides a nice break from water that we&#8217;ve been drinking all day. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/02\/tuesday-tip-grab-a-drink\/\" target=\"_blank\">I talked more about that in this post<\/a> and bonus you get an old school picture before I developed my photo skillz.<\/p>\n<p>One weekend Scott and I were wondering how well pomegranate juice would play in a mixed drink and we started experimenting. \u00a0We came up with three drinks that we love. \u00a0This first one uses gin along with some chambord to kick up the berry flavor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Andrea&#8217;s PomBerry Martini<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 oz Gin<\/li>\n<li>1 oz Cointreau<\/li>\n<li>1 oz Juice of an Orange (or clementine or mandarine, whatever you have on hand)<\/li>\n<li>3 oz Pomegranate Juice<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 oz Chambord<\/li>\n<li>6-8\u00a0oz Seltzer or Club Soda (optional)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Place all ingredients except seltzer or club soda, in a shaker along with some ice and shake for about a minute. \u00a0Pour into a glass and add the seltzer or club soda. \u00a0Stir and serve!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In all of the drinks I&#8217;ll be sharing with you, the seltzer and club soda is always optional. \u00a0The drinks are great on their own, I personally like the addition of the fizz. \u00a0It extends the drink and also helps to cut the alcohol burn a bit. \u00a0Totally personal preference so do what you like!<\/p>\n<p>All pictures of the drinks are before the addition of seltzer.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to add this to your #BoozyHoliday menu! \u00a0I have two more drinks to share and those will be posted next week so make sure you check back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my new habit of doing most of my grocery shopping at Costco (more details on that in the new year), I rediscovered pomegranate\u00a0juice. \u00a0It can totally be a pricey juice to purchase but Costco has the best prices for it and I&#8217;ve reintroduced it back into our lives. \u00a0Usually Scott and I end the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,75],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-4qz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}