RUSHFORD, Minn. — The market for lefse, a traditional Norwegian flatbread, is relatively small in comparison to other foods, but Norsland Lefse has found a way to reach its demographic from the small ...

Thelma Larson’s lefse is more than delicious. She used her secret family recipe for more than a half-century, and she sold her wares every holiday season for decades in the Lake Crystal and Butternut ...

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 ...

Makes about 50 to 60 pieces. Note: You will need to begin this a day in advance. From Beatrice Ojakangas. Cover potatoes with water and boil until tender when poked with a fork; do not overcook and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Honestly, the first time I tried it, I thought it was just OK,” said Eva Hjorth, who grew up in Sweden, but married a Norwegian. What lefse lacks in glamour, it makes up for in sentimentality. Any ...

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 ...

FOLEY - 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 ...