Last week, a very nice lady named Meredith taught me how to make lefse. Now, if you didn’t grow up saying things like, "uff da" and "you betcha," you probably have no idea what I’m talking about. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Round balls of dough ready on plates. Irons heated. Round wooden boards lined up and down the kitchen counter. Sons of Norway lefse makers were ready to roll for the holidays a few weeks before their ...

ROCHESTER — You'd think that after 20 years of helping my husband make traditional Norwegian lefse for the holidays, I'd catch on to the process. But no matter how many pounds of potatoes I peel, boil ...

Three to do the actual hard labor of mixing, rolling and frying. One - who is actually the only Norwegian in the group - to do the sampling and critiquing. And one more to document it all and post it ...

As some rolled out their lefse, they showed others how to do that, make each lefse as uniformly round as possible and cook them correctly, Staffan said. Lodge members are trying to teach more people ...

Big ideas can come from standing around a county fair. I learned that in June during a week of exhilaration and exhaustion of watching kids' 4-H project work come to a close, with joy and sometimes a ...

When Jan Dalby broke her wrist and needed surgery back in September, she only had one thing on her mind: She needed to be ...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — During the holiday season at the Englund home near Melby, Minnesota, lefse is getting rolled out and ready for the griddle. "You want it thin, so you can see through it," Kim ...

What started out as a production of holiday lefse for Thora Skarstad’s family turned into a full-fledged bakery business in the 1940s, when women weren’t known as being business owners. Skarstad’s ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. — Please don’t send me angry emails and letters about the story I’m about to write. I want to start by saying I admire Norwegian-American culture every Christmas and think it’s totally ...