Of course, I can’t leave a recipe alone. Especially when it\u00a0shows a picture of one pepper sauce (Cholula in this case,) and recommends another brand\u00a0“or one like it.” \u00a0You are practically being asked by the recipe creator to be creative yourself.<\/p>\n
Here, I’ll just show you their ingredients:<\/p>\n
3 Tbsp dijon mustard
\n3 Tbsp worchestershire sauce
\n2 Tbsp prepared horseradish
\n2 Tbsp hot sauce (like Tabasco)
\n2.5 oz lemon juice (about 2 lemons)
\n1.5 oz lime juice (about 2 limes)
\n2 Tbsp olive brine
\n1 tsp celery seed
\n2 tsp fresh ground black pepper
\n2 tsp kosher or sea salt<\/p>\n
64 oz tomato vegetable juice<\/p>\n
We mixed up these ingredients, but instead of a sauce “like” Tobasco, we used Chiu Chow Chile Oil.<\/p>\n
I can’t say enough about how incredibly tasty this stuff is. \u00a0It’s basically red chile flakes, fried garlic, and salt mixed in oil. It sounds like “ehhh” but it tastes like “KAPOW!!!!” I wanted to add even more than three tablespoons to the mix, but held myself back at Joe’s urging. (Look for Chiu Chow at an Asian supermarket. Buy more than one jar.)<\/p>\n We also mixed the ingredients in a container separate from the tomato juice, opting to combine an ounce of “mix” with 6 ounces of tomato juice and one ounce of vodka, as needed. I am so glad we didn’t mix everything together because I didn’t like this combo so much. It was too sweet for me. I even checked the tomato juice label to see if there was added sugar. Nope, just tomato juice and water. I added more salt and lime and olive juice, but I couldn’t find the right balance with the sweetness of the tomato juice. I still drank the bloody thing, and even with the crispy slice of peppered bacon and giant green olives that Joe stuck in it, I was a little bit disappointed. We were having Bloody Marys instead of dinner, you see.<\/p>\n But the bacon is an awesome idea.<\/p>\n Yesterday, I bought some V8 Juice. And that, my friends, is the key. It was the perfect combination of salty, briny, spicy (but not too spicy), and tart. Perrrrrrrfection.<\/p>\n There you have it. If you like your Bloody Marys a little bit sweet, use tomato juice. If you like it without the sweetness, use V8. An ounce of the above mix + 6 to 8 ounces of tomato juice or V8 + an ounce of vodka. Or no vodka. It’s still good.<\/p>\n You are welcome!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m alone right now, and I don’t know when this will happen again, so I’m going to write! Joe and I made Bloody Marys on Saturday. We had a bottle of tomato juice, and found a recipe online that sounded good. You can check it out here: Kick-Ass Homemade Bloody Mary mix. \u00a0 Of course, … <\/p>\n Read more “Bloody-freaking-Mary”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[59],"tags":[69,67,70,68],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"wbAuthor":{"name":"Tina DeSoto","link":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/?author=1"},"wbDate":"Sep 1, 2014","wbCategories":{"space":"Inside the House<\/a>","coma":"Inside the House<\/a>"},"wbComment":3,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IwZW-7i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/smartasheck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image1-300x224.jpg\")
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