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I don't have what you would call a "recipe" for my Bloody Mary. My wife likes them and so do my friends. My ingredients are:

V8 juice, celery salt, Mr&Mrs T's mix, ice, vodka, Frank's hot sauce and some worcestershire sauce (Lea and Perrins). I discovered some variations, like adding a bit of A-1 steak sauce. I found a variation on the Internet recently, which calls for some pickle juice. I tried that style, but the pickle juice I prefer is from Claussen pickle spears.

Any more ingredients I should try?

Try gin instead of vodka.

Squire wrote:Try gin instead of vodka.

Take all the ingredients in the OP's recipe. Put 2 parts gin and 1 part tonic over ice. Leave other ingredients on counter.

Well the simplest version is one ingredient, a bottle of gin kept in the freezer. Wait a minute . . . what were we talking about . . . gin makes me forgetful.

Two parts Zing Zang mix to one part Mr. And Mrs. T, if you like them spicy. Reverse the ratio if you like them milder. Add a jigger of vodka. To me, it's hard to improve on Zing Zang. Everything is already in there. Try it with a lime slice. Of course, I like to garnish with a celery stalk. You gotta eat, right?

Right, the celery is an important addition. I once had a companion who believed a fully loaded Bloody Mary was a separate food group.

I'm so naive! I thought it would contain -- tomato juice? I guess not.

Bloody Mary's are interesting... perhaps a CDN variation?

Caesar:

- Vodka or Gin
- Mott's Clamato http://www.mottsclamato.ca
- tsp Worcestershire
- Tabasco to tolerance
- For those inclined some horseradish

Perhaps a drop in nutrition value from the Bloody Mary

Inferno vodka and tomato juice, then a dash of Lea & Perrin's sauce. Eat the pepper when you get to the bottom of the bottle!

Chris
Keeping warm.

For me it is Zing Zang or Mrs. T's mix + some reasonable vodka (Absolut or Ketel one for me) + 2 drops of Dave's Gourmet Insanity Sauce + a dill pickle spear.

I like em made other ways and with celery and well who am I kidding I like em however they are served but when I'm making my own it is the recipe above.


-Andrew

jtpca wrote:For those inclined some horseradish

Never had one with horseradish before. I'll be on the lookout, though.

I like the Zing Zang but it is a bit sharp, and I have tried it as well. So when I do use it I go halves or so with Mr & Mrs T's.
Olives and celery belong there for the nutritional support. And the V-8 I use gives me my veggies, too.

Absolutely I want to try a Caesar... I saw that mentioned in Wikipedia and it sure sounded good!

A couple of years ago our office had a morning pot luck breakfast, and I brought a huge pitcher of non-alcoholic bloody marys, made with Mr/Mrs T's spicy mix and I think it was V-8 and/or tomato juice. It was real good, and several of them asked what it was made with. It was something different for an early workday get-together.

Ah, Gary, when you omit the alcohol it's called a Virgin Mary.

The spicy was so hot it made my head sweat, but it was really good. It would have been even better if it wasn't virgin. No pun intended.