Blue Ridge Baker

When I was a junior in college, I spent a semester abroad in London. I have many incredible memories from that time, among them, the digesti...

It is so exciting to discover delicious new treats. Until recently, my only frame of reference for a babka was a vague recollection of a Sei...

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 ...

I grew up in a small town in southeast Iowa, a mere 5 hour drive from St. Louis, a city I visited several times over the years. Why then, ha...

Look at this; it is Tuesday, and I'm actually posting the TWD treat on its appointed day & week!!! Miracles do happen... So, today i...

I know, I know, I'm almost two weeks late here... This is the cookie that all of the other TWDers baked week before last, and I really d...

While I haven't been here as much as I've wanted to lately, I can hardly believe that this is my 200th post! I have always been the...