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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. - Please don’t send me angry emails and letters about the story I’m about to write. I want to start by saying I admire Norwegian-American culture every Christmas and think it’s totally ...

Christmas looked a little different at our house this year. I know many of you can relate. With just the four of us tucked in at home in Rochester, we continued some family traditions (spaghetti on ...

Roll lefse circles as thin as possible. Don't use too much flour or you get dry, crisp edges. Don't add flour to your big batch, but work with two cups of potatoes at a time so it doesn't get too warm ...

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 ...

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 ...