Drink Recipes: Bloody Mary

I’m going to call this blog a confession, a confession for my love of a certain beverage known as the Bloody Mary. The Bloody Mary is a drink you either love or hate, there really is no in between. My feeling is it just takes a certain kind of person to wake up to Tabasco, horseradish, and other extremely bold ingredients like, well…vodka.

A large part of the mountain lifestyle is coping with the decisions you made the night before. On one of many car rides to the mountain, a good man by the name of Scott Davis put it perfectly, “I basically come here to get over my hangover”, I really couldn’t agree with him more. Not every day on the hill is a dehydration battle but a good lot of them are spent with a seemingly perpetual hankering for some high quality H2O and the possible need of a little help from our friends Tylenol and Advil. These poor decisions are made unknowingly, usually because we’re so jacked up on the idea of riding the next day that one couldn’t help but celebrate with a cocktail of sorts.

TSM Rule: Coor’s Light, as well as many other low grade, cheap light beers, falls into a category known as a cocktail.

The celebratory cocktail nearly always leads to another cocktail and probably one more after that, and so on, and so on. It is a vice most skiers and riders deal with and it will be a cold day in hell before any of that changes. Since we shredders of the fluffy white stuff are creatures of habit, we have discovered ways of dealing with late night alcoholic beverage consumption with more alcoholic beverage consumption…in the morning. The beverage of choice is of course the Bloody Mary. If the Bloody Mary is a regular on your list of beverage choices, then you are also familiar with how many people and places don’t know how to make a good bloody. So get it right the first time and follow the recipe below for the ultimate bloody experience, the sooner you make that bloody the better that hair of the dog will be and the faster you get to the hill. 

Bloody Mary Drink Recipe:

2 shots vodka, or enough to float your ice 

6 oz. V8 or Clamato juice

1/2 teaspoon horseradish sauce

1/2 teaspoon dijion mustard

2 teaspoons worcestershire sauce

A few shakes of the Tabasco bottle

a few turns of the pepper grinder

1 lemon wedge

1 celery stalk