I’m a sixth-generation lefse maker. In the 1880s, my great-great-grandmother, Kari Brandum, brought our family lefse recipe with her from the Lillehammer region of Norway when she immigrated to ...

ULEN, Minn. - Doug Lindsay saw what life had in store for him the day his Norwegian girlfriend came toward him with a rolling pin. Nearly 30 years later, they're still making beautiful lefse together ...

Lefse. It's a paper-thin flatbread, made from potatoes and cooked on a griddle, flipped with a long, narrow wooden stick, and eaten slathered with butter, sugar and sometimes cinnamon. If you're of ...

It”s not the smell of traditional Norwegian lefse-making that first strikes visitors to the Countryside Lefse factory in Blair, Wisc. It”s the sound — the thump, thump, thump of women whomping rolling ...

Diane Tott was devastated to lose her family’s beloved walnut tree when the derecho blew through central Iowa on Aug. 10. Faced with the reality of losing the tree forever, Tott had an epiphany: She ...

For every lefse recipe handed down from grandma, there probably are a hundred more variations for making those flat potato-y rounds that taste so good with everything, said Cindy Dahl, a lefse-making ...

I needed to find what The Herald had written previously about lefse — the Scandinavian potato flatbread — so I did a search on our website. When dozens of obituaries popped up, I was struck by the ...

Equipment needed: Potato peeler, chef’s knife, cutting board, kettle and lid, small bowl, measuring spoons Peel potatoes, rinse and cut each into quarters. Place in kettle. Add water until the water ...

The scene was this past September's Feast, the event The Sandwich Invitational. Amid all the ingredients shoved between a bun, two slices of bread and even a pita was Matt Christianson's braised beef ...

It looks like a flour tortilla. It rolls like a flour tortilla. It folds like a flour tortilla. But it’s lefse (pronounced LEF-sah), a Norwegian flatbread often made with mashed potatoes. “When I ...