The Devil Wears Celery Salt; Bloody Mary Deviled Eggs

Here in 2026, even the most health-conscious foodies (Hi, that’s me) are embracing clean comfort foods. Well, that is all fine and good after a hard day of “Work” snowshoeing twelve miles in one day as Big Bear Lake’s premier hiking guide, but I could use a beer right now. Or maybe a few Bloody Mary Deviled Eggs.

Maybe we all still want those nostalgic or comfort dishes from the 90s, but with a Whole Foods twist and less processed ingredients. Clean ingredients are all the rage here in 2026. You may be embracing Dry January but how about a Bloody Mary Deviled Egg, hold the Bloody Mary?

Here in our neighborhood in Big Bear Lake, California, Christmas week has gone completely off the rails. For starters, this usually snowy California ski town is currently dealing with the biggest December rainstorm Southern California has seen since 1971. Yes, rain. Not snow. Rain. Festive? No. Memorable? Unfortunately.

But that’s not even the weird part.

All week long, our neighborhood has been visited by Christmas ghosts. Actual ghosts. People wandering around at night dressed in sheets, quietly depositing strange, vaguely unsettling cookies on doorsteps like some sort of baked-goods-based haunting. This is not folklore. This is not imagination. This has all been captured on multiple Ring cameras.

Naturally, no one is eating the mystery cookies because we are adults with internet access and a healthy fear of drugs. Or poison. Or both. At this point, the working theory is that the Christmas ghosts are coming from one of the nearby STRs (short-term rentals), because nothing says “holiday spirit” like a vacation rental full of people who brought sheets for reasons unrelated to sleeping.

The Ghosts of Christmas Present Went Viral. They brought Bloody Mary Deviled Eggs

Is this a new TikTok trend? A performance art piece? The ghosts of Christmas Present taking Scrooge viral? We may never know. What we do know is that Big Bear Lake is currently haunted, soaked, and one poorly timed jump scare away from becoming a true crime podcast.

Haunted by Neighborhood Ghosts, Comforted by Bloody Mary Deviled Eggs

Deviled eggs may make your house smell like a room full of dog farts but damnit, do the Keto-loving food lovers in our household love deviled eggs. And we need something snacky in the house to munch on, as clearly, we threw the mystery cookies straight in the garbage bin.

I have even been known to pack these Keto-Friendly Deviled Eggs to take to work with me, as my job is a hiking guide. Layer them snuggly in a small tuberware and they survive just fine as I snowshoe up to the highest peaks here in Big Bear Lake. There may not be a bar to have a Bloody Mary near the summit at 9,000 feet, but I can at least indulge in a Bloody Mary-inspired Deviled Egg!

Bloody Merry Deviled Eggs

Depending on how much trouble you are planning to get into to celebrate the incoming 2026, you may want to call these Party-Girl Protein Bombs. Hey, everybody needs a good protein-packed snack to soak up all those vodka Red Bulls at about 11:30 p.m!

Do you remember once upon a time when eggs were in high demand in late 2024? Remember how crazy-expensive egg prices were, if you could even find them? And now I’m over here, boiling up huevos like they are going out of style and ecorating them with bacon and every kind of olive I can find! Oh, how the times have changed!

There are so many fun toppings you can place on top of your Deviled Eggs! Definitely have toothpicks on hand to make your deviled egg decorating job fancier. As a New Year’s Eve appitzer, this looks so cute and festive on a tray with all the different toppings.

Deviled Eggs That Identify as Bloody Marys

10 boiled eggs, chilled

1 teaspoon Dijon

4 teaspoons good-quality mayonnaise, I use Best Foods

1/4 teaspoon paprika

1 teaspoon fresh parsley, chopped

3 chives, chopped very thin

Bloody Mary Deviled Eggs decorations

4 tiny corchin French pickles, sliced very thin

Salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste

bacon, cooked in a cast-iron skillet, each slice cut in half

Tiny French Pickles

Garlic Stuffed Olives

Jalapeno Stuffed Olives

Blue Cheese Stuffed Olives

8 small celery slices

Cornichons, fancy French pickles

4 Argentine shrimp, or langostinos, boiled and set aside to cool.

1 teaspoon good-quality cocktail sauce

Slice the hard-boiled eggs in half lengthwise. Carefully remove the yolks and place them in a medium bowl. Add the mayonnaise, paprika, Dijon mustard, chives, parsley, chopped pickles, salt, and pepper. Mix until smooth and well combined.

Transfer the yolk mixture to a piping bag or a zip-top plastic bag with one corner snipped off. Pipe the filling generously back into the egg whites, mounding it slightly so each egg looks fully stuffed and proud of it.

Now for the garnish. Tuck crisp bacon slices and thin celery slices into the filling so they stand upright, like tiny edible décor.

Thread a toothpick through an Argentine shrimp or langostino. Dip one end into cocktail sauce, then insert the toothpick into the top of the egg so the shrimp stands up dramatically. For extra flair, skewer a mix of olives or fancy pickles onto toothpicks and poke those into the eggs as well.

At this point, your deviled eggs should look less like appetizers and more like they’re ready for a very tiny Bloody Mary bar.

Now you are ready to celebrate the incoming New Year with these Bloody Mary Deviled Eggs