Make Your Own Candy Bars

Corner-store sweets go high-end.

Make Your Own Preserves

How to hold on to summer’s best produce: canning.

CHOW Pancetta

Why buy pancetta when making it yourself is so easy and fun?

Nut Pastry Pie Dough

Duck Legs Confit Cooked in a Pouch (for Cassoulet)

If it is wrapped well and has no freezer burn, use it. Most meat can be frozen for up to six months. I have a food saver vacuum sealer and freeze larger pieces of meat for long periods of time, but six-eight months is about it....

My experience is that there is no health danger. Defrost in the refrigerator for a day or so (depending on size of cut — like a thanksgiving turkey, a big roast takes days) then visually inspect. The primary problem, I think,...

Tuna (fresh)

tuna (fresh)

Is freezer burn meat automatically spoiled?

several times and then in foil to prevent freezer burn. Also, to prevent freezer burn, allow it to cool completely in your refrigerator before freezing. This will keep for up to 4 months in the freezer. Enjoy!

if the surface is not freezer burned I would thaw them and see low they look. I make ceviche with frozen bay scallops all the time. The ones at our markets are not usually fresh but thawed from frozen. If you don’t feel you...

Get a Food Saver. You are going to lose stuff in there and when you find it, it will be freezer burned beyond belief. The Food Saver will allow you to keep some things for more than a year.

generator-powered chef-sized freezers. My favorite is always their infamous “luftwaffle” day. I also love that guy at Gigsville who is always wearing a female leiderhosen (well, the version with a skirt), and slaves...

I’ve seen it here... in the freezer case. If they don’t have it in stock, I’m sure they’s know where to get it: Union Jack 134 Newbury Street, Peabody, MA 01960 (978) 535-6256 (This is Rte 1. South, just...

Chile Peppers

chile peppers