Free Shipping on all Wine Accessories

How to Make Buckwheat Soba Noodles from Scratch — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

How to Make Buckwheat Soba Noodles from Scratch

I must confess to eating this entire bowl of soba by myself. I didn't share. I didn't look up from the bowl. I just inhaled. Fresh buckwheat soba is an entirely different food group from the dried soba we usually buy at the store. It's like night and day. The nutty aroma of the buckwheat, the perfect chewiness of the noodles, the way they slip

...

Read more: How to Make Buckwheat Soba Noodles from Scratch — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

Italian Recipe: Fiocchetti with Pears and Parmesan Cream — Recipes from The Kitchn

Italian Recipe: Fiocchetti with Pears and Parmesan Cream

If you asked me ten years ago after feasting at a trattoria in Florence on fiocchetti alle pere con salsa di taleggio e asparagi that one day I would be able to replicate the experience, I would have laughed in your face. Back then the only thing I knew how to make was frozen pizza. But time has a way of changing us, and that trip to Florence

...

Read more: Italian Recipe: Fiocchetti with Pears and Parmesan Cream — Recipes from The Kitchn

Essential Summer Recipe: Creamy Blue Cheese Dressing — Recipes from The Kitchn

Recipe: Creamy Blue Cheese Dressing

Last August, I spent a relaxing week vacationing on North Carolina's Outer Banks with a friend (and fellow personal chef) and our husbands. Away from our work kitchen and surrounded by fresh seafood and summer's best produce, cooking was a real joy instead of part of the daily grind. No complicated menus, no stress, just a week of straightforward,

...

Read more: Essential Summer Recipe: Creamy Blue Cheese Dressing — Recipes from The Kitchn

Recipe: Chopped Brown Rice Salad with Grapes and Pecans — Recipes from The Kitchn

Recipe: Chopped Brown Rice Salad with Grapes and Pecans

This is a salad to put in your back pocket and come back to all summer long. It goes from weekend picnic to make-ahead weekday lunch in the snap of a finger, and it's full of satisfying nibbly, crunchy, chewy bits. The grapes are my favorite part — an unexpected burst of sweet in the middle of a bite. A tangy mustard vinaigrette adds the finishing

...

Read more: Recipe: Chopped Brown Rice Salad with Grapes and Pecans — Recipes from The Kitchn

How to Make Creamy Mexican Horchata with Almonds and Rice — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

How to Make Creamy, Refreshing Mexican Horchata

Do you love horchata?  This sweet, creamy, rice-and-almond-based drink is not to be missed, especially now that summer is here and a cool, refreshing drink is always appreciated.  While traditional horchata contains milk and sugar, it can also be made without dairy and lends itself well to sugar alternatives such as agave or dates.  Read on for ou...

Read more: How to Make Creamy Mexican Horchata with Almonds and Rice — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn