Sunday Brunch Alcoholics: the Mimosa!

Sunday Morning, almost ten o’clock, rise and shine my little ladies!

It’s time for a fabulous Sunday brunch, whether it’s at the good old Family Mansion (or 3-bedroom apartment, it doesn’t matter) with Mum, Dad, little bro’ and bigger sis’, or if it’s with your roommates in your small student apartment nearby campus, remember to gift yourself with the joy of a copious Sunday brunch!

And you know what else would be absolutely fa-a-a-abulous with a Sunday Brunch? Yes! That’s right! Alcohol!

But remember, this is breakfast, so you don’t want to drown yourself in something heavy on your stomach, or complicated to make. Thus get a bottle of cold orange juice, grab a bottle of champagne and mix 50% orange juice 50% champagne, add one or two (but not more) cubes of ice if you like, add half a slice of orange and you’re done: you’ve just poured yourself a prickly fresh and light Mimosa! (And by light I meant how it feels, not necessarily how loaded in alcohol it is… that depends how you interpreted the 50-50 measurements I gave)

The little plus: if you have the possibility to do so, try to press fresh oranges yourself instead of using bottled orange juice. It will definitely make your Mimosas a great deal fresher and taste better. In addition it’s also healthier, because there are a lot more vitamins and other good things like love and happiness in fresh oranges which you won’t find in bottled orange juice. Note that many fresh oranges will provide more taste than any processed orange juice, so you might wanna test your cocktail before serving and adjust the quantity by lowering a tad the volume of freshly pressed orange juice (or adding champagne, or a drop of cold water if necessary).

There you go!

Enjoy your fabulous Sunday brunch drink!
Variation on the Mimosa:

Check out this nice and easy variation of the Mimosa called Sunrise Mimosa from the nice blog “Wine & Glue”.

Recipe:

–  put 3-4 raspberries in a glass and grind them

– add a tiny bit of sweet red orange syrup (recipe for that here) or raspberry syrup

– add champagne slowly

– add orange juice slowly

Done!