Apricot Jam

There's a simple way to extend the ephemeral apricot season, and it has everything to do with these easy peasy preserves.

1 hr 45 mins

Refrigerator Jam

This won't bring you the satisfaction of a proper preserving project that'll last the year. But it will bring you instant gratification.

2 hrs

Homemade Chrain

What's chrain, you ask? It's a heck of a traditional condiment with a bite to it. And it's coming to a holiday table near you.

1 hr

Pico de Gallo

A Mexican staple, this sauce of sorts is essentially fresh salsa that's named, curiously, for a rooster's beak.

45 mins

Classic Hollandaise Sauce

Some things are so simple as to seem almost plain—until you taste them. Hollandaise is one such perfectly simple staple.

20 mins

Sage Brown Butter

If you've yet to heat butter 'till it turns nutty brown then dribble it over any and every thing, you've yet to live. Here, let us show you how.

5 mins

Pickled Jalapeno Peppers

These Korean-style jalapenos that take a dunk in soy sauce and soda are perhaps not pickled in the traditional American sense, but pickled nonetheless. Wait'll you taste 'em.

20 mins

Sport Pepper Sauce

A staple down South, these pickled peppers and the hot, hot, hot solution that bathes them have a kick that's as fiesty as it appears.

15 mins

Spicy Bourbon BBQ Sauce

The secret ingredient to this spicy sauce? Nope. Not bourbon. We said secret. It's smoked ketchup. (Yup. You heard correctly.) Bacon, too.

2 hrs 40 mins

Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Sauce

This sweet and spicy little number wooed us from our very first spoonful, banishing bottled barbecue sauce forever from our pantries.

1 hr

Concord Grape Jam

Words escape us as to just how incomparable this made-from-scratch grape jam is compared to store-bought. That smile certainly says it all.

1 hr 30 mins

Apple-Onion Chutney

Perhaps the easiest chutney ever, this calls for simply simmering apples, onion, curry powder, tomatoes, and sugar, and then ladling it into jars. See? Easy.

2 hrs 15 mins

Homemade Raspberry Jam

You can't prolong summer. But you can prolong raspberry season with some lipstick-red berries, a little sugar, and this easy and unerringly helpful recipe.

25 mins

Homemade Sriracha Sauce

This traditional and incendiary Thai condiment has incited quite the following. Here's how to save yourself a trip to your local Asian market.

7 d

Meyer Lemon Curd

You may think you're going to gift these little half-pint jars of lemon curd, but who are you kidding? Our money says you'll be lapping it up straight from the jar.

25 mins

Cheddar Cheese Sauce

So satiatingly superlative, this cheese sauce is going to whisper seductively to you to ladle it onto everything. And we do mean everything.

15 mins

Milk Mayonnaise

Maionese de leite in Portuguese, milk mayonnaise--you heard us--is a creamy, eggless emulsion held together by oil, milk (natch), and a lotta love.

5 mins

Portuguese Tomato Jelly

Summer tomatoes are turned into a sweet jelly that's a Portuguese classic. Use it as you would any jelly as well as with cheese plates.

1 hr 15 mins

Preserved Lemons

Perhaps the most iconic and indispensable ingredient in Moroccan cooking. And perhaps the easiest thing to make ever.

30 d