Posts Tagged ‘winter drink ideas’

Starting 2023 with Comfortably Warm Glühwein/Mulled Wine Picture Book Directions

2022 ended with some bone-chilling extremes like what you see below.

Frozen, ice-encrusted restaurant near Buffalo, NY, last week

So, how ’bout we start off 2023 on a comfortably warm, fully flavorful note? We call it “glow-wine” in our family, which is a direct translation of the German word “Glühwein” (pronounced “glue-vine”) for “glowing wine”. Glühwein is so named because Germanic people centuries ago used red-hot glowing irons to heat the wine and spices mixed with it to make what has since become a traditional and well beloved hot winter drink. We call it mulled wine in America. Not a very inspiring title. Instead, I love our family’s American name because of how the “glow” adds magic to this very simple-to-make and fantastically flavorful soul-warming hot drink that tastes and feels great when it’s bitter cold and dark outside.

Here’s all you need for ingredients.

Glühwein/mulled wine ingredients: robust red wine, sugar, cinnamon sticks, whole cloves and lemon rind

As laid out in the picture book directions you can get by clicking this link or any picture on this page,…

…the two keys to making Glühwein/mulled wine are using a richly flavored red wine and letting the wine and spice mix warm slowly to bring out the flavor of each ingredient.

Enjoy!

Hickory Snow and Glühwein (Mulled Wine) Picture Book Directions

Hickory snow + Glühwein (mulled wine) = great combination

Here’s how it looked in Hickory, NC, yesterday and today.

Hickory, NC

My heart raced the whole day, especially when I was outside, just as it did in my younger childhood days decades ago. I then made this with dinner: Glühwein (pronounced “glue-vine”), which is German for mulled wine – and very easy to make.

Glüwein (mulled wine)

All you need is a robustly flavored red wine, some sugar, lemon rind, cinnamon stick(s) and whole cloves, like what I used last night.

Last night’s Glühwein ingredients

Click this link or any picture on this page for complete picture book directions.

Glow (Mulled) Wine Picture Book Recipe

glow-wine

Here’s an easy-to-make, fully flavorful hot wine drink to warm you down to your soul on a cold winter evening. The original term for this drink, “Gluehwein”, is pronounced “glue-vine” in German. We in America refer to it as mulled wine, but replacing the word “mulled” with “glow” makes this drink sound much more magically appealing.

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Microwave Cooked Fresh Hot Chocolate: Quick, Easy, and All in Pictures

Microwave Cooked Fresh Hot ChocolateThere’s nothing much better than the warm rich flavor of a fresh cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter’s day. By “fresh”, I’m talking about using only real ingredients: cocoa powder, sugar, vanilla extract, maybe a light dash of salt, and milk. That’s it: pure, honest, and clean, which means using far fewer and much easier to pronounce ingredients than those found in a container or packet of instant hot chocolate powder that’s intended to be mixed with only hot water. Read more »

Glow Wine: Biting Cold Antidote

 

Glow (Mulled) Wine

Glow wine comes from the German word “gluehwein” (pronounced “glue-vine”). The American term for the same or similar drink is “mulled wine”. But “glow” makes this very simple and fantastically flavorful hot drink sound so much more magical, which is just what you need to warm you right down to your soul when it’s as biting and dark outside as it will be tonight.

Here’s a picture of the ingredients you’ll need – all commonly found. Just click either picture on this page for a complete step-by-step picture book recipe. Stay warm!

Glow wine ingredients

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