Bloody Maria

Tucson, AZ

My all time favorite cocktail, the Bloody Mary, just took a southwestern vacation!  Hola, Bloody Maria!

RVegan Bloody Maria

Bloody Maria mix

serves 4

32oz tomato juice (I use Knudson organic tomato juice, it's the best!)

2 Tbsp grated fresh horseradish

¼ cup worcestershire (I use Whole Foods brand, its vegan & organic.  Always check labels)

½ tsp habanero hot sauce (Spicy Hot! Substitute with any hot sauce of your choice, or omit for mild)

½ tsp ground chipotle powder (Spicy! Omit for mild)

½ tsp onion powder

1 Tbsp BBQ sauce OR 1 tsp liquid smoke

Juice of 1 lime + more for garnish

salt & pepper to taste

Combine and mix well.

4 shots Tequila

Fill 4 glasses with ice.  1 shot of tequila each glass.  Pour Bloody Maria mix over iced tequila.  Stir.  Garnish with a wedge of lime, olives, hot peppers, cilantro, or all of the above!

The Cloak & Dagger

Time for a new cocktail!  Sean whipped this one up the other day.  I usually don't stray from beer or wine, but this has beets!   It's bubbly and sweet, but not too sweet, and so delicious.  The virgin version sans rum is also amazing!

The Cloak and Dagger

makes 4 servings

1 cup chopped red beets

juice of 1 lime

1-2 tbsp agave nectar, maple sugar, or coconut sugar

4 shots rum

24 oz club soda or seltzer

In a blender, blend all but the soda.  Pour into 2 glasses, add 6 oz soda to each glass.

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Hot Sauce & Bloody Marys

Desert Hot Springs, CA

At this point I think we all know how much I love spicy food.  For some reason my stomach can't handle a mild pepper at all.  I eat one bite of an innocent little bell pepper and I'm doubled over in pain for hours (some kind of sick joke being played on me?).  But if the pepper is so hot it makes you tear up or better yet, go numb, my body can handle it, no problem.  What's up with that?  Remind me, because I do have a recipe for a stuffed bell pepper that is so good it's worth it to me to be in severe pain….sweet delicious pain.

In the meantime I shouldn't deny you my homemade fresh hot sauce recipe,  which I put in oh, just about everything.  I want you to embrace the spicy in yourself.   You can handle it.  I believe in you.  Aaaand as an extra bonus, I also should not deny you the recipe for my favorite homemade spicy cocktail, because you've worked so hard on learning to love the spicy heat.  You deserve it.  

RV Hot Sauce

(oil free, vegan, gluten free, soy free *raw variation)

1½ cups distilled white vinegar

7-10 jalepeno peppers, chopped

4 cloves garlic, chopped

1 tbsp ground cayenne pepper 

2 carrots, peeled and chopped

2 tsp salt

Process until pureed.  Store in the refrigerator in a jar with lid up to 4-6 weeks. 

*For a completely raw hot sauce, replace vinegar with raw apple cider vinegar, and use fresh cayenne.

RV Bloody Mary

(oil free, vegan) makes 1 16 oz. cocktail

16 oz. glass of ice

1 shot vodka

dash black pepper

dash ground chipotle pepper

1 tbsp RV Hot Sauce

dash celery seed, or celery for garnish

½ tsp vegan worcestershire sauce

1 tsp liquid aminos (omit if using a high sodium tomato juice)

1" wedge of lime juice, another for garnish

3 drops liquid smoke

fill the rest of the glass with tomato juice

Stir and garnish with whatever you please!

Garnish ideas include: wedge of lime/lemon, olives, celery, strip of cucumber, caper berry, or all of the above.

Enjoy!

* For those of you who want the bloody mary without the heat (I admit, I'm slightly disappointed...but I guess you must have tried), definitely omit the chipotle powder and ease up on the hot sauce.  

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