apple cider vinegar with raw roots, fruits, and honey

Not my photo, but I bought the
8oz. bottle on the right.

I went home to western Mass two weekends ago and embarked on a wholesome fall field trip with my mother and sister (dad and husband were away at work). I am a little shocked I haven't mentioned it before now. It was very fun, very productive, and full of my favorite places around the area I grew up in. Our first stop was Atkins Farms in Amherst, Massachusetts. While there, I picked up some Fire Cider - a product introduced to me by a dear friend that can help support immune and digestive functions. 

Disclaimer: I am not afraid of vinegar. I am a gigantic fan; I love a lot of balsamic, apple cider, or red wine vinegar on a salad, I love dousing my fish and chips with malt vinegar, I always add extra white wine vinegar when putting together my cherished sweet and sour eggplant recipe and extra rice vinegar when putting together my cherished apricot basil chicken salad recipe, and I don't mind a well-made cocktail that contains vinegar (and actually tastes like it). I also grew up with a grandmother who used white vinegar for everything; from a homemade cleaning product to a healer of aches of pains (as in heat it on the stove, put it on a facecloth, and hold it up to where ever hurts - magically better - seriously). Vinegar does not smell like feet to me - it smells like the comfort and joy of a grandmother's love.  

When I am sick or starting to feel under the weather, I make a hot drink I endearingly call "Health" with apple cider vinegar, maple syrup, cayenne pepper, hot water, and lemon. Fire Cider reminds me most of that drink. It is made with oranges, lemons, onions, ginger, horseradish, habanero peppers, garlic, tumeric. and honey. It is spicy as hell, and when I say spicy, I mean SPICY. I have felt relatively healthy since purchasing it, so I have yet to open the bottle, but I cannot wait. It is something you can drink on a daily basis, but I am saving it for the days I need some extra health. Click here to visit the website and learn more.