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 ...

"Uff da!" I caught myself saying as I attempted to roll a mixture of flour, milk, margarine and mashed potatoes into paper-thin sheets. I even sound like a Norwegian, I thought to myself. Getting the ...

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 ...

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, ...

It’s one batch down and another batch to go on Sunday as Else Rike (left) and granddaughter Olivia Rike-Norman finish packaging the first 16 lefse rounds. Else Rike says she never freezes her lefse.

KANAWHA - Katie Tveiten is only 33 years old, but she is not letting old traditions die. She is the fourth generation in her family to hold tight to the tradition of making lefse- that tasty treat of ...

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, ...

We make lefse together each year, celebrating our long-standing friendships and sharing our love of potato flatbread. We hardly have time to reflect on each passing year as it creeps to a close, but ...

OSAKIS, Minn. — Imagine making 1,000 lefse rounds a day or 100,000 of them in a year. That’s the output of the hand-rolled Jacobs Lefse made by Jack and Bonnie Jacobs of Osakis. Lefse production is ...

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