The Bloody Mary Kit

Every Travel Trailer needs a BMK--The Bloody Mary Kit. It's an essential part of Travel Trailer Survival. We have prepped what we feel qualifies for The Ultra Light BMK. It weighs in at a mere 2 pounds, 5 ounces and measures in under 10 x 6.5 x 4 inches. It fits our modular cooler packing scheme and it has everything except vodka, tomato juice and limes. (Those essential fundamentals are rigged elsewhere in the travel trailer.) We're going to describe The BMK with a series of photos in this blog post. Here goes.

Stuffed olives are always a part of any great Bloody Mary.  We always buy high quality olives but the problem is how to stow the olives in the BMK.  VOILA!  Enter The Pillsbury Icing container found at the Dollar Store.  We threw away the icing and made it an olive container.

Believe it or not, a full jar of Lindsay olives fits precisely into a Pillsbury Icing container.  Who knew?

One of the other great ingredients of The BMK is THAI Green Curry Paste.  OH!  What a Great addition to a Bloody Mary.  Well, the jar sure won't fit our packing plan but we decanted some of the paste into a small BPA-free, USA-Made container.  Good enuf.

More cowbell!  More pepper!  More chile!  More MOJO!  Well, ground black pepper is the spice of life, as they say, and a BMK can NEVER have enough ground black pepper.

We carry all the usual pepper suspects but the BMK needs its own dedicated ground black pepper source bag.  There are over two ounces in that bag, enuf to satisfy the hardest of the hard core Bloody Mary aficionados.

No BMK would be complete with industrial strength horse radish.  Got horseradish, We sure do!

One of The Keyest Of The Keyest ingredients of a Super Fine Bloody Mary is the Worcestershire Sauce.  DO NOT BUY CHEAP Worcestershire Sauce!!!! But the BEST, no matter how it hurts to pay the price.  We decant the big bottle into a small hot sauce bottle.  Lee & Perrins is Famous for making you buy more of their product than you will ever need.  But we have beat Lee & Perrins at their own game and are proud to have a Lifetime Supply of this vital Ingredient of Existence!  One wonders how the early spear chuckers were able to eat tough old woolly mammoths without Lee & Perrins.

I mean, what's not to LOVE about this ingredient label.  And NO High Fructose Corn Syrup!!  YEA!

But just in case...just in case you don't make your taste connection to the Anchovies, here it is!

This is the Base Layer of the BMK. Olives, horseradish and L&P.

Then we add the green curry paste and the black pepper.

A very vital component of The BMK are these small skewer sticks that we use for the olives.  Olives are worthless when they fall to the bottom of a Bloody Mary. These tiny NSF skewers are just the ticket to keep your olives feng shui.

Finally, the finishing touch is a small package of celery sticks.  Celery LOVES to breathe and HATES being cooped up in a plastic bag.  But we've learned the Hearts of Celery never got the memo and they do just fine in airless confinement.

Here's how the whole thing calc's out. Just under two pounds, five ounces.

Elsewhere in our "Cooler Plan," we DO keep some pristine celery tops because they look and feel SO much better in a Bloody Mary.  But the fresh tops need special care so the BMK contains only celery parts that are content to be in the dark without air.

Obviously, a key ingredient of a Bloody Mary is vodka and that ingredient varies from person-to-person so we won't go there.  As far as the tomato juice ingredient, we use ONLY name brand V-8 Spicy Hot Juice.  NO other juice will suffice.  Also, we ONLY use Cholula to add heat to the mix.

Well, we hope you've enjoyed our journey into this HOT Tomato, Spicy Topic!

Happy Trails & Many Cheers!!!