Nonalcoholic Mimosa Recipe: Easy Does It!
I can think of only one memorable time in my life that I ever ordered alcohol with my breakfast.
It was after a friend’s bachelorette party, and we were at a classic New Jersey diner outside of Atlantic City, and “breakfast” was happening at two o’clock in the afternoon.
The diner had a surprising rosemary-pear concoction on the menu, and I was twenty-something years old, and of course it seemed like a good idea to have vodka with eggs.
(Blugh).
There’s a lot of things I did in my twenties that I wouldn’t do now, lol. And alcohol at breakfast was one of them.
I mean, I want COFFEE in the morning. Like, BAAAD.
But I *AM* open to the idea of a non-alcoholic mimosa, and so that’s what my family and I decided to have this week to toast a new day and a new year!
How To Make A Mimosa With A Champagne Alternative
I love a mimosa because it’s only two ingredients (that’s my kind of cooking, lol): champagne and orange juice. I guess the idea is to water down the alcohol so it’s a more acceptable drink for morning. But the question is, why water it down when you can skip it entirely?
If you’ve been reading along with my blog so far, you’ve already eyeballed my review of CRUSE Dealcoholized Wine—our stand-in as a champagne alternative.
We were able to find CRUSE Dealcoholized Wine at TotalWine, and it is available for purchase online as well. You could also use regular old sparkling grape juice too, but I sometimes find the ones you buy in grocery stories to be a little too sweet for me. I swear, they make my *teeth* hurt, lol.
If you’ve been reading along with my blog so far, you’ve already eyeballed my review of CRUSE Dealcoholized Wine—our stand-in as a champagne alternative.
We were able to find CRUSE Dealcoholized Wine at TotalWine, and it is available for purchase online as well. You could also use regular old sparkling grape juice too, but I sometimes find the ones you buy in grocery stories to be a little too sweet for me. I swear, they make my *teeth* hurt, lol.
(You know the ones I’m talking about–the stuff you buy the kids so they can have a toast a New Year’s).
This New Year, we’re sipping it with a little fresh squeezed orange juice for our New Year’s nonalcoholic mimosa. And let me tell you—the champagne alternative is a HIT with everyone in the fam.
My little Kit (3) wanted to help me with this photo shoot, and he has the cutest little hands, so it was a no brainer to let him! He also wanted to taste test the “mosa.”
Because we made our nonalcoholic mimosas with fresh squeezed orange juice, we didn’t get that super bright orange color that we’d have from store-bought.
And also, we got a little pulpy rim on the top that was very delicious.
Most of the time, people save their mimosas for a fancy brunch or a morning-after hair of the dog. But when you drink a nonalcoholic mimosa, you can have your fancy brunch drink on a Wednesday, in your flannel pajamas, with your toast and orange and cottage cheese.
A nonalcoholic mimosa isn’t going to strain your body’s resources the way a *real* one does, so you can enjoy a little fanciness whenever you please.
I’m gonna say—drinking a real mimosa in the middle of the morning would leave me feeling sluggish—and jonsing for extra caffeine to wake myself back up and get through the morning. So then you’re staking caffeine on top of alcohol, and playing all kinds of havoc with your system.
But drinking a nonalcoholic mimosa has left me clear-headed, sharp, eager, and ready to start the day.
(Plus, now my kids think I’m cool.)
(Let’s see how long *that* lasts.)
PS–my apologies for the red blotch that I tried to crop out of the above photo–the kids artwork is forever etched in my wood counters (and my heart, lol).
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