Blue Ridge Baker

Vanilla extract is one of those things that never occured to me to make at home. Then around the holidays last year, posts started cropping ...

Whenever there was a special occasion growing up, marzipan was my treat of choice. It was not available in the small town I grew up in - exc...

I love Charleston, SC. Though I live very close, the first time I went there was only about 2 1/2 years ago. Pretty much my entire trip was ...

I've been trying to bring you this fudge for a long time. I would have given it to you sooner, but I hit a few bumps along the way. I sa...

It seems that I am a few weeks too late with many of my recent posts. I can't seem to get away from making things that would be really g...

I have two questions: Why have I never made caramel corn before?! Why did I have to go and make caramel corn?! It is always a little dangero...

Sweet Melissa Sundays took a bit of a break around the holidays, and I got so used to not making the SMS treats, I completely forgot that w...

Ghee is also known as clarified butter. It is an oil that is used quite a lot in Indian cooking. I grew up eating vegetarian Ayurvedic - the...

Well, as if it wasn't bad enough that we had a snowstorm about a week ago that knocked out the power from 67,000 homes in the Asheville ...

Oh my, it feels like forever since I've posted anything, though it has only been a couple of days! This has been a crazy last week. Firs...