Transcript: Bloody Mary - Rim Salt

Cocktails on the Fly
Episode “Bloody Mary Salt”

Alberta: Hi, welcome aboard. Guess what? This is a pretty exciting day for me today. This is going to be a very exciting episode, because it is the first of a four leg journey, final destination, bloody Mary land, a.k.a. a Flighty liquid meal. Okay yummy. So as you know flighty makes her cocktails first-class all the way baby. So this is going to be a little bit elaborate, but it's great.
And you know what, flighty does not cook but she likes to drink her meals. So you have got a nice drink here, it takes a little time getting there but once you are there you have got all your major food groups represented. We are going to start off first with what I call Flighty’s rock-bottom bloody Mary salt.
So it is pretty simple, this recipe is not written in stone so you can do what ever you want. This is just kind of, it is rough. If you want to experiment with some other stuff, if you want to make a thematic salt because maybe you are having a theme party, a Latin American or Asian throw in some different spices.
But generally what we're going to do is we are going to start off with half a cup of kosher salt. So I did not get it all scooped in there but here we go that is about half a cup, and then we are going to put in a quarter of a cup of garlic powder, and then another quarter cup of chili powder. It is a nice color to it, a bright chili powder, bright color. And then we want a quarter cup of freshly ground pepper.
Now be careful about the pepper, because if you let your salts sit, pepper continues to get hotter and hotter as it ages so you want to be careful about that, because you do not want to add too much. Sometimes maybe even a little bit less because you want to be able to taste your bloody Mary. But right now we're going to consume this right away because Flighty is quite hungry so we are going to put in a quarter cup. But like I said you can adjust this recipe for however your personal tastes are.
And then I'm going to put in a pinch of celery salt and a pinch of cumin. Now I like to use the whole seeds because I don’t want to mix it up in there and have an overwhelming flavor of cumin, I just want a little cumin surprise. A little pop of cumin a little pop of flavor every now and again in the salt, so that is why I just use the whole seeds.
And then this is lemon peel dried and ground up so a pinch of that. And then these poppy seeds, poppy seeds are nice, a little tasty and add a little texture. And then this fabulous stuff right here, I do not know if you have ever tried it but I just discovered this fabulous Hawaiian salt. It comes in red and black, I made a little mix of it. So I'm going to put in a little, bigger than a pinch, a big pinch of this. You know what I'm going to put in two pinches because this is a great salt. It adds a lot of nice flavor, you know I never really thought of salts as having flavor before but it certainly does. And supposedly it has clay in it as well which is cleansing to your system. So it is nice, we can detoxify while we toxify, which is fantastic.
So stirring it up, ready to go, there we are it is not too hard. I'm looking at it; you know one thing about it if you are serving it to guests and stuff also color is important. So I'm looking at this and it is looking kind of good, so I see a little bit too much saltiness to it so I'm going to add a little bit more chili powder. Just a little bit more, for flavor and color. Okay now that looks like it's going to be good.
Now there's one problem with the salt, sometimes it is adding a little sea salt to it or the Hawaiian salt there is a little dampness to it so you have got to be careful. If you are edging your glass and you find that you have dripped some lemon juice in it, or if it just seems like it is clumping. It won't stick to the edge of your glass if that happens, so just pop it in the microwave or the oven for a little bit and it will dry out. No problem.
And also if you have leftover salt after you are done serving your Bloody Mary’s you can put it on, I guess put it on cooking food stuff. I don't really do that but I hear that it would be tasty. Some other people have suggested that it might go good on I don't know chicken or pork chops or something. But anyway Flighty likes to use it for her liquid meal. So here we are tasty rock-bottom bloody Mary salt. Cheers. Look at that it's ready to go. OK so let's go on to the step two of our journey and that is going to be Bloody Mary vodka.
Bloody Mary salt, in a mixing bowl add:
1. ½ cup kosher salt.
2. ¼ cup of garlic powder.
3. ¼ cup of chili powder.
4. ¼ cup of ground pepper.
5. Pinch each of celery salt, cumin seeds, lemon peel, and poppy seeds.
6. Two big pinches of Hawaiian red salt.
7. Microwave for 30 seconds to dry.
8. Stir and store.
9. Delicious!