Recipe

• 45ml vodka

• 90ml tomato juice

• 15ml lemon juice

• 2 dashes Tabasco sauce

• 3 dashes Worcester sauce

• Salt

• Pepper

Stir everything thoroughly with ice, and strain into a Collins glass. Add two sticks of celery and a thin slice of lemon.  Top up with a little extra tomato juice if there's room.  Don't be scared of the salt.

I've ordered a Bloody Mary in a few different places, and they're wildly inconsistent.  I've never really made one myself, and I think I need more practice.  I followed the IBA recipe closely, but there was too much lemon juice for my taste.  Still, it's a nice filling savoury drink, something like drinking a pizza.

Note that this isn't actually vegetarian, what with the anchovies in the Worcester sauce.  But I tend to think it's such a small amount that it's not worth worrying about.