How to Tuesday - make yourself a festive cocktail

I have a fondness for salty.  Whatever the opposite of sweet tooth is, that's me. I am a lover of saliferous anchovies, briny olives, full-sour kosher dill pickles, marinated eggplant (melenzana sott'oglio), capers, good pickled okra...the list goes on. I could live off of a quality Italian antipasto platter for the rest of my days, and I'd be happy as a clam. I like clams, too, ooh, steamed little neck clams from the New England coast, now I'm hungry.

So it goes without saying that my cocktails of choice fall within the same palate.  Dirty Vodka Martinis, Salty Dogs, classic margaritas with hunks and chunks of salt on the rim.  And the Bloody Mary is high up there on my list of favorites.   Here's my very own recipe for it.

Bloody Mary a la Alice

2 oz. good vodka (Grey Goose, Ketel One, etc)

V8 vegetable cocktail

celery salt to taste

freshly squeezed juice of 1/2 a lemon

1 scant Tbsp horseradish

dash of Tabasco sauce

dash Worcestershire sauce
good olives for garnish

ice

Ingredients

After adding ice, lemon juice, the 2 sauces, and horseradish, add 2 ounces of vodka.

Add V8 and celery salt.

A little wiggle of the wrist.

Throw some olives on a skewer.

And how Christmasy is that?

Bloody Merry indeed!

Mmmm, it's so tastly-licous...

Cheers to you, my friends *clink* 

Wish you were here.