I think I really want to get into making cheese this year. There is nothing that goes better with the tomatoes out of my garden than fresh mozzarella cheese.

Not so much a defined project per se, but I would like to try one new recipe a week out of Heidi Swanson's Super Natural Every Day new cookbook. I figure by the time summer ends, I'll have some great new additions to my weeknight choices.

Canning has been on my list for some time now. I just recently joined a CSA so I'm looking forward to using and preserving all of the seasonal produce!

I planted my first-ever garden this year (just moved out of the parents' house). So far, no dead plants!

Hopefully, I will get enough produce (tomatoes at least) to try some canning.

Right now, I'm in the middle of building shelves for all my craft supplies.

Canning and ice cream making are at the top of my list for summer projects.

Ooh making that ginger ale just jumped to the top of my list! I'd also like to do regular blog posts on my weekly CSA shares and how I use them.

I haven't bought an ice cream maker yet... so I'm really curious about semifreddo!

More ice cream and more canning.

Pies, tarts, and crumbles. I want to do all fruit desserts this summer, and save the chocolate for cooler weather. I can make a pie crust, but not happily. Crumbles and cobblers are my easy, preferred options. It would be nice to end the summer feeling less homicidal about pie crust.

My fiance and I just obttled our first homemade beer yesterday, so I'm looking forward to getting better at that.

I also want to start canning. I help my dad do his tomatoes every year, but I want to branch out with my CSA bounty.

I'm planning on macarons this summer. Just had a rose-geranium flavored one that was amazing, so I think that's where I'm going to start.

Sausage-making and meat-curing!

This is going to sound really stupid, but I'd like to learn how to grill. I didn't grow up in a family that ever cooked outside, and its just too damn hot to cook in my little apartment kitchen. I'm considering picking up that cute little camp stove grill that was featured last week or a charcoal grill... and while I have grilled successfully before, I am just not very comfortable doing it. I don't know the tricks of the trade or the safety details. I'd like to.

I've been experimenting with making jams and pickling lately, and would love to see more ideas on preserving summer's bounty!

I recently made my first, strawberry balsamic jam, and it was to die for! Not to mention, super simple. I also made some pickled sriracha cauliflower. WHOA! Delish!

I'm concerned with safety for canning. It makes me a little uneasy. I'd hate to make myself or someone I love sick!

Organic farming, raising chickens, grilling fish and canning!

We put our first ever garden in this spring and the beans sprouted today (this is Northern Alberta after all)! ... I would love to become a great gardener. People who make gardening look effortless make me green with envy!

Canning and preserving food are on all the list once I'm growing it myself!

it's time for me to start bringing a whole lot less packaging home from the store. so that means making my own dips, crackers, stocks, juices, shampoo....... ad infinitum. bring on the inspiration!

I want to make my own s'mores with homemade marshmallows and graham crackers. That ginger ale sounds enticing, too!

We're going to try cheese making this summer ...if we can find the time! We've had the "beginners kit" for like 6 months. But I swear we're gonna do it! Fresh mozzarella with fresh tomatoes from the garden sounds perfect to me!

Last summer we did several types of Brandy, This summer I wanted to do Jams and jellies.

I'm trying to get a little more natural this summer - gradually weaning myself off chemically skincare products and learning to make raw sweets. I'm not very interested in raw food as a lifestyle, but raw desserts and sweets seem to be a good way to satisfy my sweet tooth without reaching for the cadburys. As well as this, I'm going to learn more about alternative flour and baking ingredients.

Making my own yoghurt! I've gave it a try already and got *almost* there but the yoghurt was still too runny (although thicker at the bottom of the jar).

If anyone has tips on how to make yoghurt without a machine, please share!

so far, my list includes:
1. grow my own vegetables (yay, community garden plot!)
2. set up a worm composting bin in my kitchen
3. make sun tea
4. perfect the art of cooking dairy-free (without feeling like i'm missing out)

Canning! I've been wanting to learn for forever and hope to finally get to it this summer.

Ten things we're doing in the kitchen (more or less...) this summer:

http://slightlyirritatingandinconvenient.blogspot.com/2011/06/summer-foodie-must-do-list.html

@AdelineA – The Kitchn has had several posts on this topic. And make sure to read through the comments on those posts for tons of tips and different methods.
How to Make Yogurt at Home
How Can I Make Thicker Homemade Yogurt?
Thick and Creamy: How to Make Greek-Style Yogurt

how to make a perfect beef roast without a BBQ!

making our own beer. We have just bottled our first attempt and we'll see if we have decent beer in another two weeks!

My sweetie, my sister, her boyfriend, and I are interested in trying our hand at making mead sometime in the near future. And probably brewing beer. And making cheese. We're some ambitious food nerds, over here :)

I'd also like to try canning; I've watched my mom do it since I was a wee spud, but have never attempted it myself.