Did you know that May is National Vinegar Month? We have rounded up 10 tasty recipes with vinegar for you to enjoy this month, as well as a little history about the holiday to help you enjoy vinegar all May long.
Deviled Eggs | A Family Feast
Vegan Dark Chocolate Triple Layer Cake | Flour On My Face
Fun Facts: Vinegar was discovered over 10,000 years ago. It was a cask of wine that had gone bad. So, essentially, wine is fruit that has gone bad and vinegar is wine that has gone bad. The Babylonions were the first to spice it and the Romans were the first to drink it as a beverage {that totally just gave me the sours, lol}. And the Greeks used it to pickle foods {my kind of peeps there}. And vinegar has been used to treat scurvy and wounds by Americans during war time. Truly, vinegar is quite historical.
Fruit and Almond Quinoa with Apple Vinaigrette | Love Bakes Good Cakes
Firehouse Salsa | Thirty-one:10
Got TB? Did you know that vinegar can kill tuberculosis? Even the drug resistant kind. So, if you are treating someone with TB, you can use vinegar as a disinfectant.
Light & Easy Bruschetta Chicken Pasta | Couponing and Cooking
Harvest Salad | Nel’s Nook
Vinegar also has many health benefits. One that I found particularly interesting is that vinegar can help with heightening levels of Serotonin in the body. Low levels of Serotonin go hand and hand with depression and anxiety. So, enjoying more vinegar could make you happy. 🙂
Merlot Poached Pears | Practically Functional
Sweet Coleslaw | Flour On My Face
One of my personal favorite ways to enjoy vinegar is over sliced cucumber and onion. I think that is a country thing, so I wanted to add that here for all of you city folks who might be reading this. Just chop up a cucumber and an onion {I like any of the green stalk varieties best} and then pour over some vinegar. I generally water the vinegar down just a bit. And I add a little salt and pepper. Yum!
Slow Cooker Sauerbraten Beef in Gingersnap Gravy | Love Bakes Good Cakes
5 Bean Salad | Hot Eats and Cool Reads
Vinegar in a cake? How interesting. I don’t think I have ever added vinegar into one of my cake recipes before.
That’s what I thought when I first saw that, but man, that cake does look amazing. I would try it. 🙂
Looking at all these amazing recipes is making my stomach growl! The Bruschetta Chicken Pasta looks absolutely delicious. Those are really interesting facts about vinegar!
Truly fascinating facts and history about vinegar! I use it to clean the house but not so much in cooking other than vinaigrette salad dressings. Will definitely be trying these other recipes. Thanks for letting me know about national vinegar month-! There is indeed always something to learn and celebrate.
I definitely want to try the bruschetta chicken pasta. It sounds delicious and light!
Yum! I love using vinegar when cooking. These recipes look great.
Every one of those dishes look amazing! And who knew that vinegar can kill TB?!
I love vinegar in my recipes and my favorite cake calls for it.
Wow! We hardly ever use vinegar, but these ideas are good ones! Cake!? Wow!
Thanks for these recipes! We use vinegar all over our house as a cleaner and it’s nice to find ways to use it in foods too!
Vinegar is so essential to most of my favorite recipes! I had no clue about all the history behind it.
WOW So Many Combinations Of Delicious Recipes I Can’t Wait To Make Them All
These all look SO good! I do remember baking a cake that called for vinegar, I think it was a chocolate cake. I will definitely be trying some of these.
I just heard it was Vinegar month. Great collection of dishes.
Oh my goodness, these all sound amazing… great recipes, some of which I would have never thought of using vinegar in.
It’s funny because I don’t really think of vinegar as an ingredient off the top. But clearly it adds a lot!
I think vinegar is one of those forgotten ingredients. I use it as my secret ingredient in several dishes because it adds just that little bit of kick.
Oh wow! What an interesting round up of recipes.. never would have guessed vinegar would be in most of these.. especially cake! Yum!
I add a touch of it to my deviled eggs too along with sugar, gives it a tang!
Wow so delicious all of these recipes! And I never realised vinegar was so interesting! Like as a cure for TB – that’s pretty cool 🙂
there are so many health benefits to vinegar but also a big secret in a lot of recipes. Thanks for such an awesome list! I’m definitely bookmarking this as I see a couple of things I want to make already!
I love vinegar. I love the tang that it gives things. So I will be checking out these recipes.
who would have thought vinegar in a cake, I also heard of mayo too
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I have heard of that, too, but not sure that I have ever tried that either. I keep seeing all these cakes with sour cream in them, as well. For some reason, that sounds really good to me.
yum this post made me so hungry. I love the coleslaw recipe, better yet I love the picture. Looks like something right out of a magazine.
IEveryone knows vinegar is good for cooking. Most people know vinegar makes a great cleaner, but raising serotonin levels?!! That’s epic. Totally epic.
I still wonder who first decided to try drinking vinegar…. Who would think that it’s NOT going to kill you? (Totally got the sours too. It’s making my mouth water in a bad way.)
For real. If I hadn’t heard of people drinking it before, there is no way I would have been, “That looks tasty!” My daughter likes to freeze the juice from pickles and then eat it later. I tried that and it’s actually good, lol.
Pickle Popsicles?! I dunno about that…