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12 Great Ways to Use Vinegar

1) Salads. If you’ve got great olive oil, match it with equally good vinegar.
2) Bread salads. Use leftover country-style breads & tomatoes to make a delicious bread salad. Douse with good olive oil and vinegar, let it sit for a while to marry the flavors, throw in some olives, basil, maybe some cucumber, and eat it up
3) Sauces & soups: vinegars are the backbone of great sauces like Hollandaise or Béarnaise. A bit of balsamic adds depth to tomato sauces, and a splash of sherry vinegar will add complexity to gazpacho. Brighten the flavor of soups by adding a bit of vinegar rather than more salt.
4) Marinades: balance the richness of meat with the acidity of vinegar. Add balsamic to a lamb marinade, sherry vinegar to shrimp, banyuls vinegar to chicken. Marinate game in a rich fruit vinegar like blueberry or cherry.
5) Deglaze your pan after cooking fish or chicken with a tasty vinegar for an easy, zippy sauce.
6) Fruit salads. Enliven a fruit salad with a bit of fruit or light wine vinegar (like Gruner Veltliner). Balsamic or sherry vinegar on strawberries is sublime.
7) Drinks. For a non-alcoholic summer cooler, try adding a few drops of a good vinegar to cold soda water.
8) Ice cream. Top vanilla ice cream with a few drops of good balsamic vinegar or condiment.
9) Pickling. The better the vinegar you use, the better your pickles will taste.
10) Condiments. Vinegars add an essential zing to homemade chutneys, mustards, ketchups.
11) Dipping sauce. Live like the Romans! Put out bowls of good vinegar alongside crusty (not sour dough) bread. Olive oil isn’t the only thing that tastes great when dipping.
12) Use diluted distilled white vinegar to wash your windows.