Anyone who's courted champagne heavily knows that she can be a fickle mistress - sweet and sultry for a few hours, but leaving you the recipient of a coyote ugly the following AM. The only times I've woken up still drunk the next morning were all champagne-related incidents, and I can tell you from personal experience that it's not pretty, either figuratively and literally. For just such a spinny-room, puffy-eyed, smeared mascara occasion, only one thing will suffice: hair of the dog. Pom iced tea (or any other brand of pomegranate tea for that matter) makes an amazing mimosa. How did we figure this out? A few summers ago, while hanging out on a friend's back deck, we ran out of orange juice for our morning concoctions. I had brought a lychee-flavored Pom iced tea, which we figured would make a great cocktail in a pinch. What resulted was a light, yet still intense, morning beverage that made everyone around the table go, "oooooooooooh." In the interest of paying forward good alcohol karma, here's the recipe:
Course Beverage
Prep Time 5minutes
Total Time 5minutes
Calories 145kcal
Author Stephanie Stiavetti
Ingredients
3partschampagne
1partpomegranate iced tea
1appropriately ironic morning cocktail cup, such as a plastic Spiderman tumbleror 7-11 coffee mug
Instructions
Pour and sip. You don't need to be hung over to appreciate this bad boy - it makes a great addition to any alkie-breakfast table.