A Refreshing End of Summer Cocktail

The Celery Mary

Ingredients

1 lemon
Celery salt
3 cherry tomatoes
1/2 tsp. diced fresh green pepper
1/2 tsp. diced fresh yellow pepper
1.5 oz. vodka
Tobasco sauce, a few dashes
Celery soda (substitute with ginger ale combined with a few crushed celery seeds)
Celery for garnish

Directions

1. Squeeze 1 tablespoon of juice from the lemon; set aside juice. Use the juiced lemon to rub the rim of a tall glass; dip rim into shallow dish of celery salt. Fill the glass with ice.
2. In a sturdy glass or cocktail shaker, use a muddling tool or end of a wooden spoon to crush and stir cherry tomatoes, green and yellow peppers, hot pepper sauce and reserved lemon juice. Add vodka and ice; shake well. Strain into prepared glass and top with celery soda or ginger ale. Garnish with a thin slice of celery stalk.