We can thank the lefse. On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, my dad dug out Grandma Haugen's old lefse grill. A large, round, formidable contraption, the grill was a thing of beauty, a thing of family ...

A month or so ago, I stood in a church basement, showing off. A group of us — parents and teens — were gathered around hot grills, preparing to make hundreds of pieces of lefse for a fundraiser. "Have ...

I needed to find what The Herald had written previously about lefse — the Scandinavian potato flatbread — so I did a search on our website. When dozens of obituaries popped up, I was struck by the ...

"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 ...

The Anderson family will celebrate its 42nd annual Lefse Day on Dec. 21. This cherished family ritual started out modestly. Marilyn Chalstrom and her sister, Beverly Anderson, missed the wafer-thin ...

There is a saying that no matter how long you handle horses, you never learn all there is to know about them. I feel the same way about wine. And about making lefse. Our scrappy lefse-making group has ...

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 ...

Continuing our Inviting Writing theme about "eating at Grandma's house," today's story celebrates another Bestemor. Author Jenny Holm is a freelance writer who grew up in Minnesota, but has been all ...

Volunteers and food service staff at Bethel Home in Viroqua warmed up a gray afternoon by baking lefse, Wednesday, Nov. 15. Eleven volunteers, some of whom were newbies, worked in the nursing home’s ...

Peel, chop and boil potatoes. Once soft, drain water and set aside. Cube the butter and place in bottom of a large heatproof bowl. Pour cooked potatoes over the butter and beat with a hand mixer, just ...