It’s a new year and you popped champagne last night.
If you’re done making mimosas or drinking flat champagne to nurse a hangover, here are five things you can do with your open bottle of bubbly. Happy New Year to you!
From Graham Lansford, bar manager at SOUTHBOUND :
- My personal favorite? Throw a few garlic cloves into the bottle of champagne that you don't want to drink anymore because of your resolutions, let it sit until lunch or dinnertime, and use it as a salad dressing.
- Freeze leftover champagne in an ice cube tray and add it to any drink you want.
- Combine your almost flat bubbles—you know you didn't put a stopper on the bottle after the festivities—with a bunch of cut up oranges and any other fruit you want and let it sit for a few minutes. Boom! You'll have sangria!
From Ian Mendelson, sommelier and owner of Vine & Tap :
- Open another bottle or two.
- Make a classic Italian dessert sauce for winter fruits. The following calls for Marsala wine, but champagne works very well too.
- o Ingredients: 4 egg yolks, 4 teaspoons sugar, 4 tablespoons Marsala
- Whisk all ingredients over a double boiler until thickened like pudding. Take on and off the heat while cooking so as not to scramble the eggs. Serve warm.
Read the AJC Fall Dining Guide, Atlanta Around the Clock, here .
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