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 ...

Come the holiday season, Evelyn Hensrud gives her lefse griddle a good workout. During the past 50 years, Hensrud has made thousands of rounds of the soft Norwegian flatbread on the Bethany she got ...

Mother-daughter baking duo, Heidi Koeritz and Hayley Luther, shared a longstanding holiday tradition, lefse making, with the ...

MENTOR, Minn. — With each push and pull of Barbara Schulstad’s wooden rolling pin, the ball of dough on her lefse board shrinks. When Schulstad is satisfied the round is the right size, she gently ...

Lefse may be a simple food -- its main ingredients are potatoes, cream, butter and flour -- but it's tricky and labor intensive to make. First of all you need the proper equipment, including a lefse ...

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 ...

DULUTH — Ever find yourself on a winter run and craving some warm Norwegian potato bread? The third annual Lefse Run on Saturday combines the tradition of Norwegian lefse with a free fun run with a ...

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 ...

Some like it with butter, while others like their lefse with anything from jam and peanut butter to sausage. Lefse is a flatbread that is traditionally made in Scandinavia during the winter months, ...

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 ...

The Anderson family will celebrate its 42nd annual Lefse Day on Dec. 21. This cherished family ritual started out modestly. Marilyn Chalstrom and her sister, Beverly Anderson, missed the wafer-thin ...

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 ...