Whether you are glazing your favorite grilled meat, spicing up a hearty salad bowl, marinating, pickling or creating your very own style of hot sauce, vinegar provides you with delightful options to enrich the flavor of all your favorite foods. Vinegar is also great for sanitizing, disinfecting and deodorizing the kitchen and bath.
For Marinating Meat: For a three to four pound roast.
Ingredients: One to two cups of vinegar, ten cloves of garlic, and one cup of your favorite spices and herbs. In a blender, liquefy all ingredients. Place the meat in a zip lock bag, pour mixture over it and let marinate overnight. Then, remove meat from the mixture and cook.
Salad Dressing:
Zing up a hearty salad by pouring half a cup of vinegar, a quarter cup of lemon juice, half a cup of olive oil and half a teaspoon of cane sugar into a bowl. Mix well. Pour into a bottle, shake and serve.
Sanitizing the Dishwasher:
Sanitize your dishwasher once a month by pouring one and a half cup of vinegar and half a cup of baking soda into an unloaded dishwasher and run the machine though the normal cycle.
Disinfecting and Deodorizing the Bathroom:
For cleaning the bathroom, pour four cups of vinegar and one cup of baking powder into a container and mix. Spread the mixture over the bathtub, face basin and wherever needs disinfecting and deodorizing. After 15 to 20 minutes, wipe clean the spread mixture. This will leave bathroom looking, smelling and feeling clean.
Cleaning the Washing Machine:
Clean the hoses of your washing machine by pouring two cups of vinegar and half a cup of baking soda into the washing machine. Then, run the unloaded machine through the normal cycle. Do this once a month to ensure wonderfully clean smelling clothes.
How to Make your own Homemade Hot Sauce on a Dime:
Ingredients
1 ½ cup of distilled white vinegar or apple cider vinegar.
½ lb. of your favorite hot pepper, (Habanero chili pepper, Thai pepper, Tabasco pepper or Jalapeño pepper).
3 cloves of garlic.
1 tablespoonful of salt.
1 teaspoonful of curry powder
1 tablespoonful of red wine. (optional)
Chop the pepper and the garlic. Pour the vinegar into a pot and add the chop peppers and garlic. Add the curry powder, salt and red wine. Boil for 10-15 minutes. Let cool then blend to make a puree. Pour mixture into a jar and store in the refrigerator.
Extend the Life of Flowers:
The next time you receive your favorite cut flowers from that special love one extend their life by putting them into this special mixture. To a quart of warm water, add three teaspoonful of vinegar to two teaspoonful of sugar. Pour mixture into vase. Arrange flowers into vase making sure that the stems are three to four inches deep into the mixture.