January 1, 2014 at 8:19 am
· Filed under Cocktails & Spirits, Entertaining, Food Holidays, New Year's Eve
|
New Year’s Day is also National Bloody Mary Day. So today’s tip is: Find a new garnish for your Bloody Marys, and change it up every year.
A celery stalk garnish and optional lemon or lime wheel was de rigeur 20th century. Savvy hosts replaced them with a fennel stalk for the new millennium (there’s a word you haven’t heard in a while!).
But that was 14 years ago! So here are 10 groups to consider for your “signature garnish.” You can mix and match them as you wish. And yes, you can even match them with a celery stalk and any form of lemon or lime.
Creative types can get out the vegetable cutters and transform cucumbers, carrots, jalapeños, etc. into edible sculptures.
BLOODY MARY GARNISHES
“Antipasto” Pick: an assortment of goodies such as cheese cube, cocktail onion, deli meat cube, grape tomato, pickle, pickled garlic, shrimp or your favorite ingredients
The Bacon-Jerky Group: bacon strips, your favorite jerky or a “BLT” (grape tomatoes and bacon on a pick with a curly lettuce leaf replacing the celery)
The Citrus Group: curly lemon or lime peel, blood orange wheel, grapefruit wedge, any exotic citrus from the farmers market
|
|
A modern and easy Bloody Mary garnish: a gherkin and pepperoncini on a pick with a salt and pepper rim. Photo courtesy AGWA. |
|
The Fresh Vegetable Group: cherry tomato/grape tomato (chose yellow for contrast), cucumber slice, green onion/scallion, snow pea, zucchini spear/slice
The Herbs Group: basil leaves, cilantro sprig, dill sprig, parsley sprig, rosemary sprig
|
Bloody Mary “salad”: cherry tomato, celery,
cucumber, dilly bean, lime wheel olive. Photo
courtesy Arch Rock Fish Restaurant | Santa
Barbara. |
|
The Fruit Group: apple wedge, melon balls, pineapple spear
The Olive Group: stuffed olives (cheese, chili, pimiento, etc.), mixed pitted olives
The Pickle Group: dill spear (the whole spear or cut into chunks on a pick), gherkins
The Pickled Vegetables Group: asparagus, carrot, dilly bean, okra, peppadew
The Seafood Group: crab leg meat, cooked shrimp
The Seasoned Rim Group: cracked pepper, seasoned salt (buy it or make your own, including a salt-and-pepper rim of coarse sea salt and cracked pepper)
KNOW YOUR BLOODY MARYS
Bloody Mary History
Bloody Mary Recipes: the classics plus Danish, Mexican Scottish, Russian and Spanish Marys
|
|
|
Please follow and like us:
Permalink
Comments are closed.
