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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before long, the women in the class were in aprons making and frying their own lefse. Dahl said she remembered helping her mother make lefse as a child, and how her grandmother used the long piece of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lefse is a common dish at a Midwest holiday celebration. The main ingredient is potatoes, and Bea Ojakangas says they must be Russet potatoes. She boils and then rices them before mashing them ...

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 ...

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 ...

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. -- A woman walked up to the Jacobs Lefse Bakeri booth at the Minnesota State Fair with a simple question: "How do you get it not to stick?" Jack Jacobs, who has heard that ...