A good Bloody Mary could be the work of a lifetime. Finding the right balance of spices, incorporating unconventional ingredients, perhaps even growing your own organic tomatoes and distilling your own vodka to get it ... Absolutely. Perfect.
Naturally, I just threw mine in the blender.
The idea came after I added the tomato juice to the vodka and ice. The vodka-ed down juice looked alarmingly similar to blood splatter from a certain era of Italian horror movies, and naturally blenders came to mind.
I won't share the picture because it went from looking like fake blood to puke. In a glass, it was a dark red smoothie — still not visually appealing, but cold and very tasty.
I went a little overboard with the Tabasco. Spicy is good, but this overpowered other flavors. I've never been much of one for hangovers or Bloody Marys, but this bears some additional experiments, none of them involving blenders.
Manly or Girly? EOB (Equal Opportunity Buzz)
Appearance: See above.
Consistency: Smoothie.
Taste: Cold, spicy tomato soup.
Stomach acceptance: No worries, but it's making its spicy presence known.
Good drink for: Sunday morning coming down
Hangover factor: Too late. You're already hung over.
Would I actually order this in public? If the weekend of Oct. 2 goes as expected, you can probably find me with one in Igor's on St. Charles Avenue around 11 a.m.
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1 comment:
1. Love the addition of "Good Drink For ..." I say we keep it!
2. First the lip-burning, now the Bloodie Mary Smoothie. You're nothing if not innovative, Alan.
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