INGREDIENTS

• 3 Cans Tomato Juice (46 oz. each – from Sysco)
• 3 Tbsp Prepared Horseradish
• 3 Tbsp Minced Garlic
• 3 Tbsp Chili Powder
• 3 Tbsp Cumin
• 3 Tsp Kosher Salt
• 2 Tsp Course Black Pepper
• 6 Tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
• 1/4 Tsp Cayenne Pepper
• Fresh Lime Juice

METHOD
Mix all ingredients in a large container.  Keep refrigerated.  Pour each individual drink in a tall glass, filled with ice and 2 oz. of Absolut Peppar vodka.

GARNISH
In the drink

• 2 Spicy pickled green beans
• 1 Lemon wedge
• 1 Lime Wedge
• 2 Large Olives
• 2 Cocktail Onions (optional)
• 1 Celery Stalk (optional)

NOTE

• I personally feel like the onions and celery are a bit over-kill.  There is a fine line between a “party in a glass” and a ridiculous concoction.  Use what you like.

On the rim

• 1 Cucumber Slice
• 1 Large spicy boiled shrimp
• Seasoning mix on the rim (combination of blackened seasoning, kosher salt & black pepper)

NOTES

• The seasoning mix for the rim is easy… mix up a bunch and put it in a plastic container for later.
• The boiled shrimp was added at my suggestion.  Although it was my idea, I “borrowed” it from Cafe Rani (on Magazine St.), they did it long before I copied it at the restaurant.  Though ours was better!  The slice of cucumber was also my suggestion, but of course I borrowed that one from Pat O’Briens.  See a trend?

courtesy of Kevin Lacassin
NolaFoodie.com

• 2 ounces Vodka
• 6 ounces V8 Juice (Spicy V8)
• 1 teaspoon Prepared Horseradish
• Celery Salt
• 2 dashes Worcestershire Sauce
• 2 dashes Hot Sauce (Tabasco, Crystal or Louisiana Brand)
• Wedge of Fresh Lime
• Wedge of Fresh Lemon

Method

Fill a glass with ice.  Pour in about (I stress the word “about”) 2 oz. of vodka.  I use Taaka (or Smirnoff), because that’s what the locals drink (or so the advertisement says), it’s cheap, and when you cover it up with all of the seasonings, you couldn’t tell it from Grey Goose.

Next, start adding ingredients.  Toss in some celery salt, shake in some Worcestershire sauce, celery salt, hot sauce and using a fork, add some prepared horseradish.  Last, squeeze in a lemon and lime wedge and drop them in the drink and fill the rest of the glass with V8 juice.  Have an extra big cup ready to roll the drink (roll just means to pour from cup to cup a couple of times to mix the drink).

Finally, add your garnishes.  No New Orleans Bloody Mary is complete without spicy green beans.  You can use celery stalks, olives, cucumbers or even spicy boiled shrimp to garnish your drink.  Do whatever looks pretty.  Mine has a spicy green bean, a spear of pickled spicy okra and an onion-stuffed olive.

Note: If you insist on using a mix, my favorite is by Zing Zang.

courtesy of Kevin Lacassin
www.NolaFoodie.com