Difficulty: 2 (Intermediate)
Wash and dry the tomatoes, reserving the tops. Gently hollow out the pear tomatoes. Slice the mini cucumber. In a bowl, mash the goat cheese with a fork, incorporating crumbled thyme, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Fill the cherry tomatoes with the cheese mixture and garnish with chopped chives.
Stuff the pear tomatoes with tapenade and replace the tops. Assemble the skewers by alternating cherry tomato, cucumber slice, celery leaf, pear tomato, celery leaf, cucumber slice, and cherry tomato on wooden skewers.
For the Cocktail: Half-fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, lemon juice, celery salt, and pepper. Pour in vodka and tomato juice, stir vigorously, and strain into a serving glass. Garnish with a tomato skewer on the rim or a celery leaf.
The Bloody Mary is one of the world's most iconic cocktails, invented in 1921 in Paris by Ferdinand Petiot, bartender at Harry's New York Bar. Writer Frédéric Dard created a popular variant substituting gin for vodka.
