Why did the olive meet the martini, the onion the Gibson? It just seems to make sense that if you want a snack in your liquor, you should make it a sausage. Give a new life to those pesky little Vienna wieners, or buy good-quality knackwurst and pickle them in a brine of equal parts vinegar and water. Serve in a small martini glass.
Recipe information
Yield
Serves 1
Ingredients
2 ounces (60 ml) vodka
1/2 ounce (15 ml) white vermouth
Dash of canned Vienna sausage juice
Drop of Tabasco sauce
1 canned Vienna sausage
Preparation
Freeze a martini glass. Shake together the vodka, vermouth, sausage juice, and Tabasco. Serve in a chilled glass with a Vienna wiener on a skewer. Add more juice and itās a dirty sausage martini.
Reprinted with permission from The Art of Living According to Joe Beef by FrĆ©dĆ©ric Morin, David McMillan & Meredith Erickson, copyright Ā© 2011. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House, Inc.
