Grapefruit Prosecco Birthday Cocktail: #RMJis40
A bubbly birthday cocktail featuring grapefruit and Italian sparkling wine ~by Deanna Segrave-Daly, RD & Serena Ball, MS,RD
{Editors' note: Thanks to Deanna's computer crash last week, alas there are no fun photos of Regan and us galivating about but we do have cocktail photos. So there's that...}
The holiday season may have come and gone but in our part of the blogosphere, we aren't done with the celebrations and toasts.
We love having another excuse to breakout the bubbly and today, on January 5th, along with a few fellow bloggers, we are celebrating Ms. Regan Miller Jones big 4-0 birthday with a cocktail and dessert recipe roundup!
The idea was crafted by Gretchen @ kumquat, long time friend of Regan's and fellow co-founder of the Blog Brûlée conference (along with Regan, Deanna and Robin.)
Our ties to Regan go back a few decades to when we three were fresh faced, eager communicators for our local dairy associations in different parts of the country: Regan in the Southeast, Serena in New England and Deanna in the Mid-Atlantic. Together, we shared tips on schlepping props to TV stations and the best recipes to leave with the TV set crew...and that was only the beginning of our mutual love of food, nutrition and recipe development.
As members of the Food & Culinary Professionals nutrition practice group, we three also served together on the executive board. This group is dedicated to serving the professional development of the dietitian who loves to talk about, write about and cook food.
And then, there was the birth of The Recipe ReDux, which was solidified as the three of us sat together under a cabana poolside in California. And it's changed all our lives for the better; the bloggers we've met through Recipe ReDux are some of the most talented and fun we know.
So, in honor of your birthday, Regan, we raise a glass to you, our friendship, our business endeavors and all that you have done in the blogosphere to make healthy food delicious and appealing while raising the profile of fellow food-loving dietitians. May your best years be ahead of you!
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Grapefruit Prosecco Birthday Cocktail
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Description
A bubbly birthday cocktail featuring grapefruit and Italian sparkling wine.
Ingredients
- 1.5 ounces grapefruit vodka (we used Deep Eddy Ruby Red)
- 1.5 ounces freshly squeezed grapefruit juice
- 4 ounces Prosecco or other sparkling wine
- Rosemary sprig
Instructions
- Pour grapefruit vodka and grapefruit juice into a champagne or wine glass. Slowly pour in Prosecco or sparkling wine. Add rosemary sprig and serve immediately. Cheers!
Check out the cocktails & gluten-free party treats below and feel free to use #RMJis40 if you want to send some birthday wishes to Regan via your social media channels!
This virtual birthday party for Regan is such a fun idea! I'm loving all of the recipes that you guys have come up with. And this cocktail is the perfect way to celebrate!!
Ugh your computer crashed? I am so sorry. But what a gorgeously refreshing cocktail. Pass me a glass!
Yes, I think every fellow blogger gets truly how devestating this can be (and the ultimate irony? I had no backup as I had just switched to a new external back up drive.) Anyway, data recovery happened and now it's just a matter of weeding through it all. Time for a grapefruit cocktail (or several!)
Happy birthday to Regan! This cocktail looks perfect!!
What a lovely toast! And this cocktail looks so refreshing - what a great combo - grapefruit & rosemary. A Happy New Year to you both, Deanna and Serena. And Deanna, hope that your hard drive can be recovered...ugh... and sorry to hear.
HNY to you too - digging your Cape Codder drink! Alas, a big crash (and ironically my new back up drive was alas, not backing up.) I had a data recovery done and while I think most of my data is back, it's like it was dumped in a big ole pile on my laptop and I'm slowly digging my way through it all. I now will be backing up online too!
Love hearing about the early days of your friendship! I hope all of us Blog Brulee attendees will have similar stories years from now! Love this cocktail too 🙂
Ahh, I have no doubt there will be some lifelong friendships forged from Blog Brulee (what a lovely thought!!) So love your milkshake recipe 🙂
Such a lovely post - you can feel the friendship! HNY Serena and Deanna.
Oh and meant to say.....arghh computer crash?? What a nightmare.
Oh yes - we need a Skype date and I'll fill you in on the gory details 🙂
This was such a fun idea- this is my kind of drink= simple and involving the bubbly 😉
Me too - I'm all about the bubbly 🙂 We always have a bottle of Prosecco in the fridge in this house.
Yummy recipe! And I love the idea of the three of you scheming poolside. Happy b-day Regan!