BEGIN WITH THE BASICS
A Bloody Mary can be as simple (the recipe below) or as wild (think pickled vegetables, spices, stuffed olives) as your taste buds desire.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon celery salt or plain kosher salt, if you prefer
- ¼ lemon, cut into 2 wedges
- ½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- ¼ teaspoon soy sauce
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper (or less, to taste)
- Dash cayenne pepper
- ¼ teaspoon hot sauce (such as Frank’s or Tabasco)
- ½ teaspoon freshly grated horseradish (or 1 teaspoon prepared horseradish)
- 2 ounces vodka
- 4 ounces high-quality tomato juice
- 1 stalk celery
Preparation
Place celery salt in a shallow saucer.
Rub rim of 12-ounce Collins glass with 1 lemon wedge and coat wet edge with celery salt.
Place lemon wedge on rim of glass.
Fill glass with ice.
Add Worcestershire, soy, black pepper, cayenne pepper, hot sauce and horseradish to a cocktail shaker.
Fill shaker with ice and add vodka, tomato juice and juice of remaining lemon wedge.
Shake vigorously.
Strain into glass.
Garnish with celery stalk and serve.
