Summertime Spinach Salad Delight

Nothing beats a hot summer night than a cool and refreshing summer salad. Add alittle Minus 8 Vinegar and you've got a healthy meal that packs a mild punch too! 

Dutch Spinach Salad
6 Cups Fresh spinach, torn into bite-sized pieces
1/4 Cup Chopped onion
4 Slices Bacon, diced
1/4 Cup Minus 8 Ice Wine vinegar
1 Tbsp. Sugar
1 Tsp. Salt
1/4 Tsp. Ground black pepper

Place spinach and onion in a large serving bowl; set aside. In a skillet, sauté bacon until crisp; remove from heat. Stir in vinegar, sugar, salt and black pepper. Bring to a boil. Slowly pour hot dressing over spinach and onion; toss and serve at once. Yield: 4 to 6 portions

Ingrediants Worth the Splurge...

One of the most fantastic things about this very fine wine vinegar is that not only is it a perfect ingredient for desserts, it can also be used in salads, on meat, seafood and poultry dishes. In the long haul - gives it one heck of a big bang for one's buck.

Not only is Minus 8 a very rare and unusually culled vinegar ingrediant, it's also a digestif. So it's not likely to be one of those products you purchase for one rare dish - that ends up collecting dust in the pantry. In fact, we highly suggest you purchase a bottle and use it on practically everything for a month and shake some of the dullness out of your ordinary methods of cooking for a change. Experiment to your heart's delight and see what happens! In fact, if you come up with a few really neat NEW recipies, send them in to us and maybe we'll even publish them on our website!

Minus 8 House Salad Rocks!

To some, a house salad is generally a house salad; a mere side entry to a terrific main course. To those who truly love salads in general, every ingredient added in can either make it a great one or ...NOT. To a salad lover, a salad has just got to rock! A Minus 8 House Salad can consist of many types of ingredients including; a teriffic assembly of greens, candied pecans, shredded cheddar, broken tortilla chips and chicken breast slices with a sprinkling of Minus 8 caramelized onions on top. At Broadway by Amar Santana, one can enjoy a chilled asparagus salad with slow poached egg, crispy shallots, house cured duck prosciutto and truffle vinaigrette; or an heirloom tomato salad with Minus 8 vinaigrette, arugula pesto, crisp parmesan and fromage blanc ice cream. For those who love their greens, Minus 8 is mild enough to slighly enhance those who like their salads sans dressing and yet is interesting enough to give edge to those adventurous ones to who are on the constant hunt for unusual new tastes. Click here for another full recipe and click here for the Minus 8, if you haven't already got some onboard!

The Greatest Gift Ever for Foodies

What do you do when the one you love has every kitchen gadget known to mankind because he or she has been a food fanatic for years and owns at least two of eveything a top chef might use? Why not surprise them with the unusual gift of Minus 8 Vinegar? As a gift, it will far outlast all the other kitchen goodies and gadgets, for it does something no other kitchen element can do. And that is to challenge them to continuously try new recipes with it. In fact, not only are there dozens of new things to try with Minus 8, all of the old favorite recipies can be revitalized in a whole new and most flavorful manner as well. For Minus 8 is one of those rare ingredients that can be used in multiples of ways; whether in salads, in desserts, on meats, in dressings, drinks...and just about anywhere a fine vinegar is used. If one bottle of Minus 8 is not enough, why not provide an assortment such as: Minus 8, L8 Harvest, Dehydr8 and 8 Brix?

Minus 8 Vinegar - Not Just Another....

It is obvious that the primary requirement to make ice wine and it's spinoff product, ice wine vinegar is that cold temperatures are needed. What's not clear to most is that in order to harvest the grapes for Minus 8 Ice Wine Vinegar, certain qualifying standards must be met. For instance, Canada is more suited to producing ice wine than France. In Ontario, weather conditions in the Niagara peninsula are more suited to freezing temperatures. Geographically, the Minus 8 vineyard is located in the Niagara Region, which is dubbed "the banana belt" because of its prolific agricultural production. This is a naturally cool climate region for grape growing. Yet only when nature creates the required conditions and harvest standards are met in a timely fashion can a successful vintage be made. Ice wine must be produced exclusively from grapes that have been harvested, naturally frozen on the vine, and pressed in a continuous process while the air temperature is -8 Celsius. This actually means that the winemaker must actually wait for the temperature to drop to -9C and actually hold in that range and then a rush is on to cull and press the grapes. Timing is everything. If freezes come too late, the grapes may be dehydrated. It is the delicacy of this process and how the grapes are handled that yields a successful vintage and is what sets Minus 8 apart.

Flavor Up An Ocean Trout

We found this recipe had landed at the classy St. Regis in Dana Point by acclaimed chef Michael Mina, once again proving yet another chef's choice of Minus 8!  Ingredients: 6oz portion ocean trout or salmon (skin on), cleaned1 cup cauliflower, sliced2 cups water1 tsp butter, melted1 tsp heavy cream, warmed1 tbsp golden raisins, bloomed (rehydrated) in water5 Muscat grapes, peeled1 tsp celery, diced in ¼ inches 1 tsp capers, rinsed1 tbsp lemon olive oil, 1 tsp Minus 8 vinegar, 1 tbsp micro mint (or small leaves from regular mint), 1 pinch French sea salt, 1 tbsp clarified butter. What? Don't have Minus 8 Ice Wine Vinegar in your kitchen? Link here!

Spruce Up Lobster Salad with Minus 8

Minus 8 Vinegar, made mention via one of America's top food writers with a recipe for Lobster Salad with Corn and Tomatoes is but another way an ordinary yet healthy dish can be tweaked to create 'something different', when you've run out of new recipes to try. In fact, there are hundreds of dishes where one can use Minus 8 to spruce up the flavoring, whether they be frozen desserts or seven course dinners. So if it means a few extra bucks for a better vinegar, your palette will have you rushing for more because the taste is so exquisite, you'll be experiementing with all of your ol' favorite recipies for years to come.