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 ...

If Minnesota had a state food, it would be lefse. Granted, we already have a state mushroom (the morel), and even a state muffin (blueberry), but what we lack is just a general food item. Lefse should ...

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 ...

"Uff da!" I caught myself saying as I attempted to roll a mixture of flour, milk, margarine and mashed potatoes into paper-thin sheets. I even sound like a Norwegian, I thought to myself. Getting the ...

READY TO ROLL: Sons of Norway lodge offers lefse-making class For every lefse recipe handed down from grandma, there probably are a hundred more variations for making those flat potato-y rounds that ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) - Every year around the holidays, Gerri Thorsgard and her friends meet in Bemidji over 40 pounds of potatoes and a shared mission - lefse. The tradition started a dozen years ago ...

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 ...

Are you puzzled by recipes from relatives and church cookbooks that lack necessary information? My dad’s theory about recipes with missing data is that Aunt Martha wants to be remembered as the best ...

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 ...

Amy Marquard is all about precision, in life and in the kitchen. “I probably should have been a food scientist, because I love technique and process,” said Marquard, who does accounts receivable work ...

ST. PETER — The ingredients for lefse are simple enough: potatoes, butter, cream, salt, sugar and flour. But making lefse is a challenge even for experienced bakers, said Carol Moline, former ...