Red Wine Rum Coffee Liqueur and January’s LOL Posts

Ingredients:

• 2 bottles of red wine*
• 1/2 bottle white rum
• 16 ounces brown sugar rock candy
• 3 packets vanilla sugar (here in Germany each packet has about 4 tablespoons)
• 30 coffee beans

Directions:

• Put all ingredients in a big covered pot and let sit for 2-4 days.
• Strain and pour into bottles and seal.
• That’s it.

Oh and you probably want to save the wine bottles to pour the liquor back into or you can buy fancy ones to use as gifts.

* We are red wine snobs here in the Mad Hausfrau household with a closet full of pricey Barolos to prove it.  However, I used the exact wine Bettina used which was Dornfelder Dry Red Wine and costs Euro 2.50 a bottle. The result was perfect so you do not need to use expensive wine. Same goes for the rum.

You can easily double this recipe if you are making gifts. The one above I halved from the one Bettina gave me as she made a large batch to hand out as gifts this year.

Now that we are all sufficiently cyber liquored up, let’s kick back and have some fun.

Here are January’s food blogger posts that amused, entertained or just generally cracked me up:

Pastry Pal addresses her extra whites and yolks separately

MC Lentil Breakdown’s Rapini Rap and her Ode to a Mom

Buns in My Oven’s crumb cake poem

Choosy Beggars’ Buffalo Chicken Sushi

Cake Wrecks Sick as a Dog