‘Granny’ and ‘the girls’ build special tradition The cookie decorating crew in 2017 included (standing L to R) Amy Brix, Holly Brandt, Heidi Korb, Alison Karasch, Tara Hayward, (front L to R) Becky Dillon and Jean Shepherd. Contributed photo With the holidays around the corner, you might be thinking of digging out your apron, a favorite recipe and spending some time in the kitchen. A cookie baking party is one way of getting the work done by adding some fun with friends or fa

Today, one of Linnea’s joys is baking organic bread, although she claims she wasn’t much of baker while raising her three children. Linnea is an artisan baker who creates over 60 loaves of bread at a time. But what makes her passion even more interesting is she bakes the bread in an outdoor wood-fired oven that hovers around 600 degrees at her home on Man Lake east of Hackensack. Linnea admits that she never would have thought she would be baking bread in an outdoor oven. “I

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