DC’s Snowmageddon 2: Sour Cream Blueberry Crumb Cake

To continue my documentation of DC’s most awesome winter storm, we woke up this morning to what looks like 20+ inches of snow!  What better way to enjoy it than with homemade Blueberry Crumb Cake, eggs, sausage and Bloody Marys!?!

My husband made over-easy eggs, because that is his “eggspertise” and sausage.  I made Ina Garten’s recipe for Blueberry Crumb Cake and it was delicious!  You can find the recipe here.  I didn’t make any adjustments to the recipe but I did “freestyle”  a recipe for the best bloody marys ever!

Where I come from (St. Peter, MN) there happens to be a bar that serves the most amazing bloodys… and I’ve had a lot of bloodies in my day;)  You find them at Patrick’s on Third.  When my fellow Urban Aprons and I were in college at Gustavus, we were lucky enough to enjoy them for half price on Sundays, a prefect way to end/start your week.  My favorite aspect of their bloodies just may be the beef stick, an excellent complement a delicious drink!  Patrick’s bloodies have been the inspiration for every bloody I’ve made!

So, without further or do, I would like to pass along my “non-recipe” recipe for Patrick’s inspired bloody marys!

• Tomato juice or V8 (I prefer not to use mix because I always have to spice it up anyway and it is more expensive)
• Worcester Sauce
• Soy sauce
• Season Salt
• Celery Salt
• Hot sauce
• Garlic powder
• Pepper
• Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning
• Horseradish (sometimes)
• Lemon/lime juice
• Good Vodka (optional I guess)

Simply mix the above ingredients together until they taste delicious to you (free-style it!)

Take a glass, rim it with a lemon or lime wedge and dip in a mix of season salt, celery salt and Tony Chachere’s.  Fill with ice and pour tomato and seasoning mixture over.  Then the real fun begins, add all or a combination of the following garnishes:

• Celery
• Pickled green beans or asparagus
• Pickles
• Olives (preferably filled with garlic or blue cheese)
• Roasted red peppers
• Lemon/lime wedges
• Stick of Pepper Jack Cheese
• Beef Stick (Essential!)
• A chaser of beer (aka small glass of beer to “chase away” the heat of the hot sauce)

And voila!  You have a delicious bloody mary that is essentially an entire meal.  All 5 food groups: veggies of course, dairy (cheese stick), fruit (lemon/lime), grains (the barley and hops of your beer chaser) and meat (your beef stick).  I am pretty sure that Bloody’s are the worlds most perfect cocktail.

Now my husband and I are off to explore and enjoy the snow!  We are headed either to Dupont Circle where Hotel Dupont has set up a “Snow Bar” or down to the national mall to take pictures of this historic event.  We’ll be metroing of course becuase the roads are a mess!  More to come on our food adventures in the snow!

How do you enjoy a snowy day?  What are your favorite bloody mary ingredients?!?