Happy June, everyone. It’s finally here! BERRY TIME! We’ve all been waiting patiently for some fresh fruits (other than citrus of course) to spice up our kitchens. And for jam/jelly-making of course.
Sometimes though, we end up with a surplus of something. Or some runts that aren’t quite good enough for eating fresh, and didn’t make the cut for making jam with or baking with. And that’s when we need to use those for something else. And why not an infused vinegar?
Last year I spoke about herb-infused vinegar and chili-infused oils, as well as a blackberry honey. The year before that I talked about chive blossom vinegar. Flavored or infused vinegars are just ridiculously easy to do, and they make a great hostess gift as well as just a great thing to have around in your kitchen.
All I do is add some sliced strawberries (cleaned & hulled) to a jar and pour some white wine or champagne vinegar over them. These photos are what it looks like immediately.
I add a teaspoon or so of sugar, stir or shake & let it sit for two weeks. Maybe even more. After a week it looks a little darker, more saturated.
Then I just strain it and start to use it. It’s great as a salad dressing, or as a “shrub”, aka drinking vinegar. Add a little to some sparkling water or seltzer and you’ve got an instant mixed drink! You can also use it to add flavor to dips or salsas or fruit salads.You can use just about ANY berry or fruit, and you can add herbs too. I like to heat the clean, rinsed off herbs up in the vinegar in a pot on the stove first, then pour the whole thing into a jar, then add the fruit. Once it’s cooled add the lid & let it infuse for a week or so.
You can make strawberry-mint, raspberry-cilantro, blueberry-basil… the list goes on. Or just keep it simple and use just the fruit.
SERVING SUGGESTIONS: whisk into a vinaigrette by mixing with some oil, Dijon mustard & salt/pepper, melt it into a little similarly flavored jam with some oil & a shallot for a different kind of salad dressing, mix with sparkling water or seltzer to taste, mix with yogurt & a little honey for a quick dip.
SOUNDTRACK: Joan Jett – “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll”
I'm Marilla. A 30-something artist, hobby baker, home canning enthusiast, gardener, DIY-er, wife, mommy of a baby boy and dog mom (to another baby boy) from New York. 
It’s My all time favorite fruit! I’ve never tried strawberry vinegar before, I wish I could make this on My own too..
Anyone can make this!!
Ahaa, its fastidious conversation regarding this piece of writing here at this blog, I have read all
that, so now me also commenting here.
I would like to consider the opportunity of saying thanks to you for your
professional advice I have often enjoyed browsing your site.
We are looking forward to the particular commencement of my university research and the entire
planning would never have been complete without dropping by
your site. If I could be of any assistance to others, I’d be
glad to help as a result of what I have discovered from here.
excellent submit, very informative. I wonder why the opposite experts of this sector don’t realize this.
You should proceed your writing. I am sure, you’ve a huge readers’ base already!
I have to thank you for the efforts you’ve put in penning this site.
I am hoping to view the same high-grade content from you later on as well.
In fact, your creative writing abilities has encouraged me to get my own site
now 😉
I used to be able to find good advice from your blog articles.
Hi mates, nice piece of writing and pleasant urging commented at this place, I am actually enjoying by these.
Whats up are using WordPress for your site platform?
I’m new to the blog world but I’m trying to get
started and set up my own. Do you need any coding expertise to make
your own blog? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
My programmer is trying to persuade me to move to .net from PHP.
I have always disliked the idea because of the costs.
But he’s tryiong none the less. I’ve been using Movable-type on a variety of
websites for about a year and am concerned about switching to another platform.
I have heard good things about blogengine.net. Is there a way I can import all my wordpress content into it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I visit every day a few web pages and sites to read articles or reviews, however this web site gives feature based
writing.
I visited several sites however the audio quality for audio songs
existing at this web site is in fact wonderful.
Aw, this was a very nice post. Spending some time and
actual effort to generate a great article… but what can I say… I put things off a lot and never manage to
get anything done.
Hey very interesting blog!
Great post. I was checking constantly this blog and I am
impressed! Extremely useful information specially
the last part 🙂 I care for such information a lot.
I was looking for this certain information for a long time.
Thank you and best of luck.
Howdy just wanted to give you a quick heads up.
The words in your article seem to be running off
the screen in Ie. I’m not sure if this is a formatting issue or something to do with internet browser compatibility but I figured I’d
post to let you know. The design look great though! Hope you get the issue
solved soon. Thanks
I delight in, cause I discovered just what I used to be looking for.
You’ve ended my four day long hunt! God Bless
you man. Have a nice day. Bye
Hi to all, as I am really keen of reading this weblog’s post to be updated regularly.
It carries fastidious material.
If you wish for to grow your experience only keep visiting this web page and
be updated with the most up-to-date information posted here.
Hi! This post couldn’t be written any better! Reading through this post reminds me of my old room mate!
He always kept talking about this. I will forward this post to him.
Pretty sure he will have a good read. Many thanks for sharing!
Great blog! Is your theme custom made or did you download it from somewhere?
A design like yours with a few simple adjustements would really make my
blog shine. Please let me know where you got your theme.
Thanks
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on cupcake rehab.
Regards
Unquestionably believe that which you stated. Your favorite justification appeared to be on the web
the simplest thing to be aware of. I say to you, I certainly get annoyed while people consider
worries that they plainly don’t know about.
You managed to hit the nail upon the top as well as defined out the whole thing without having side-effects ,
people could take a signal. Will likely be back to get more.
Thanks