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 ...

Today when area families enjoy lefse as a part of their holiday tradition, they may be using Lucia Schroeder's recipe. The Glyndon, Minn., woman has been teaching classes on how to make the ...

FOLEY, Minn. — 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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Lefse may be a simple food -- its main ingredients are potatoes, cream, butter and flour -- but it's tricky and labor intensive to make. First of all you need the proper equipment, including a lefse ...

Round balls of dough ready on plates. Irons heated. Round wooden boards lined up and down the kitchen counter. Sons of Norway lefse makers were ready to roll for the holidays a few weeks before their ...

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 ...

Diana Barstad of Marysville will be very busy every day this week. There is lefse to make, rommegrot to stir and pickled herring to prepare. Ardis Richards (left), Diana Barstad and Gloria Gunderson ...