P recently bought the book, ‘How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage and Style and Women and Also Cocktails Ever Written‘ and was very inspired to make the Bloody Mary recipe that is in the book. It has a ton of ingredients!! As P read the list of ingredients and instructions out loud to me on how to make it I could feel myself starting to salivate because it sounded so good!
It has been awhile since I’ve had a blood mary and when we have made them at home in the past we usually just bought a blood mary mix and added vodka. Despite the complexity of the recipe in the book we both wanted to make it and luckily P wanted to make it a whole lot more than I did because he went out last Sunday just to pick up all the ingredients. Then when he came home he realized he forgot the horseradish and he refused to make any without it so he went back to the store just to pick up the horseradish.
He did make a couple adjustments to the recipe. He used manzanilla olives instead of extremeda olives (what are those anyway??), and used Chipotle Tabasco instead of what I assume would be regular Tabasco sauce.
Here’s a photo of the finished product:
Bloody Mary for Dinner
It tasted faaaaahhhbulous! It has a kick to it from the horseradish, Worcestershire sauce, and hot sauce, but it doesn’t burn and isn’t overpowering. The tomato juice is from concentrate, but it doesn’t taste too tomato-y. There’s a little bit of sweetness to it, which I think comes from the key lime juice. Yeah, that’s right, key lime juice. Never even knew that stuff existed. Oh, and you can’t tell, but there are also capers on that “stick” along with olives. There are so many different flavors in this drink that I could drink this for breakfast everyday….ok, every Saturday and Sunday. The only suggestion I gave to P was that he should trim the celery ends to give the drink a finished look (not to mention that the stick of celery is way too tall for this glass). He says this is the most complicated cocktail he’s ever made, but it’s totally worth it. Seriously, people, how could you not trust Archer to deliver a fantastic Bloody Mary.
Calmez-Vous! 