Thirsty Thursday: The Bloody Southern

I found myself craving olives the other day.  Which then causes me to crave Bloody Marys (Maries? *shrugs*).  Don’t ask why my train of food cravings runs that way, it’s just how I’m wired.  Occasionally, I don’t crave Bloody Mary, but rather, I crave the “Mexican Martinis” served at the Hula Hut in Austin Texas, which are served with jalapeno-stuffed olives.

But this time, I wanted olives and Spicy V8 and all the other things that come with that.  But I had to mix it up a bit.

A while back, I bought a mini bottle of Southern Comfort Pepper, since it sorta screamed “Cajun”.  Southern Comfort is made in New Orleans, and the Pepper version was released in fall of last year.   However, after I did some investigating (aka: texted Primo, my official cocktail connoisseur), I caught word that this stuff is pretty well ONLY good in a Bloody Mary.  But hey—that works for me!

Recipe:

2 oz SoCo Pepper

6-8 oz Spicy V8

3-4 dashes Worcestershire sauce

3 dashes Louisiana hot sauce

Juice of half of a lime

1 tbsp olive juice

dash Cajun seasoning

 

Directions:

Shake ingredients together in a shaker w/ice, then pour into a fancy glass w/fresh ice.  Serve with a garnish of lime, pickle, and, of course, jalapeno stuffed olive!

 

Next up might have to be the SoCo Mojito…maybe with SoCo Lime???

Thirsty Thursday: FeauxCajun’s Bloody Mary

This is my own recipe, perfected over many years of trial and error, and I’m proud to say I actually won first place in a Best Bloody Mary contest a while back at our local watering hole.  So here I share my recipe with you. 

Note: If you don’t want a cocktail but still like spicy, tomatoey goodness, just make this without the vodka—still delicious.

Ingredients:

1.5 oz vodka

3.5 oz Tabasco Bloody Mary Mix or Spicy V8 Juice (low sodium if you can find it)

3 dashes Tabasco Spicy soy sauce

3 dashes Worchester  sauce

1/2 oz lemon juice

1/4 lime

splash pickle juice

dash celery salt

dash Cajun seasoning

Garnish:

1 spear pickled okra

1 jalapeno-stuffed olive

1 kosher baby dill pickle

Prep:

Fill your favorite pint glass with ice.  Add (in this order for best mixing) vodka, lime (squeezed into the glass—then I usually just drop the wedge into the glass), lemon juice, Worchester, soy sauce, and then top with Bloody Mary mix (or Spicy V8). Dash celery salt and cajun seasoning on the top. 

Then: forget the celery stick—grab a skewer (we usually have some long wooden ones around the house for grilling, so I just cut one in half with kitchen shears) and jab it into your three garnishes (note, if you don’t have one of these, just double-up on another.  If you don’t have any of them…for SHAME.  Use the skewer to stir it all up.

Then kick back & enjoy.