today's project: vinegar

when you're making homemade wine and things don't work out, you end up with vinegar...having been sick a lot lately, i had a couple of relatively unattended batches that went "bad" and the end result is that i had quite a bit of vinegar lying around the kitchen in huge glass jugs. it was just sitting there until i could think of a good use for it.

well now i think i've got an idea to do with some of it:

today i made the following:

1. rose vinegar: the queen of flavored vinegars. it's a beautiful pink/red color and smells heavenly of roses. i feel so strongly about this stuff that i keep it in a bottle of chambord.

2. rose/sage vinegar: two very interesting tastes together

3. rosemary vinegar

4. mixed herbs vinegar (rosemary, tarragon, thyme, sage)

5. lavendar vinegar: may end up being amazing, we'll see.

6. mint vinegar

7. fennel vinegar

salad dressings will never be the same around here...when i get a chance, i'm also gonna do raspberry and blackberry as well.

i picked about 3 lbs of oregon grapes which i hear make a decent wine. i'll let you know about that...

i also harvested a huge quantity of st. john's wort on the way home from work. as advertised, it stains your hands red after awhile. i infused one batch in oil and the other in wine. we'll see which one turns out better, but here's to the rainy season. i figure by then, who cares about photosensitivity, there ain't gonna be no sun to speak of.