One thing I love to do is make preserves. I don't really need to. I don't have anywhere to grow anything at my apartment and the gardeners do not take kindly to outside plants anyway. SO it's not like I have extra fruits and vegetables laying around that I need to do stuff with. I live in a large metropolitan area and can easily purchase whatever I need for myself, so it's not like I need to put up a whole bunch of food for the winter. Nor do I have a large pantry where I can store it. Nonetheless, I like the process of making preserves and I like having a little jar of something in the fridge to use as accents for my meals. Also, one of my good memories is from one summer in my teenage/college years where my family friend Karen invited me to help her make jam from the berries that grew on her property. It was a fun day and there was a nice sense of accomplishment from picking all of the berries ourselves and then making them into many jars of jam. I was pretty proud o...