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 ...

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 ...

Odney and Lorraine Ellingson work as a team to make lefse. She rolls the dough, and he fries it. Together, the Grand Forks couple have made lefse for more than 50 years. This year, they plan to make ...

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 ...

DULUTH, Minn. — When I-35 was completed through Duluth in 1992, the construction interrupted natural gas lines to First Lutheran Church, which sits along the route of the freeway expansion. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With this holiday season following a hotly contested election, some Americans fear that political disagreements among family will boil over like a pot of poorly watched potatoes. In North Dakota, ...

FOREST CITY — Ernest Thompson deftly cut the skin from a hot potato. The skinned potato was handed to Nancy Olson who put it in a bowl so she could use a ricer on it. Olson gripped a ricer in her ...

Thirty pounds of potatoes. Three pounds of butter. Six cups of heavy cream. Ten pounds of flour. The Lefse Institute was open. Rebecca Jorgenson Sundquist slipped a pastry sleeve over a ridged rolling ...