Make Your Own Preserves

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

We just came back from Paris and brought back Christine Ferber’s Blood Orange Preserves. Our small and very expensive jar is finished. It was so terrific that I signed up for a 2 hour preserve making course. My husband...

I’m looking to make about 100 – 200 half-pints of preserves by late September, for wedding favors. Right now I’m at about sixty. All the cookbooks say to do jams and jellies in small batches to get the right...

Does anyone have any good tried and true recipes for preserved citrus? I love Vietnamese “salty lemonade” and want to make it at home. I have been pickling some lemons but after almost month they are still not full of...

Well-Preserved

New canning jars from Ball.

. Since you’re making such small batches, you can use half and freeze half. Good luck with your experiment. With the cost of agave syrup, these will be really luxury preserves!!

Vegetable Tagine

A quick stew of vegetables, Moroccan spices, and chickpeas.

Make Your Own Pancetta

Skin it, tie it up, let it hang: step-by-step instructions to make your own.

Make Your Own Tofu

A homemade version of the vegetarian centerpiece.

Fennel, Parsley, and Celery Salad

Served with a preserved lemon and bitters vinaigrette, this salad combines ordinary ingredients in unexpected ways.

My boyfriend just made up a batch of preserved lemons and they look gorgeous. But now that they’re done, we aren’t actually too sure what to cook with them. Does anyone have any favorite uses? We know that moroccan...

Make Your Buzz Last Longer

CHOW tests wine-preservation systems to see if they really help save an opened bottle.

Make Your Own Candy Bars

Corner-store sweets go high-end.

Salmon Jerky "Candy"

Sugar-cured salmon jerky goes Nordic with the addition of caraway seeds.

Charmoula Roast Pork Loin

Pork is slathered with a sweet, hot Moroccan sauce and roasted with root vegetables.