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 ...

Amy Marquard rolls out a slice of lefse at her home in rural Foley, Minn. Marquard has a lefse-related website and has designed several products to aid in making lefse. When it comes to staying ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Gerri Thorsgard, far left, Stacy Baumgart and Theresa Hendricks roll and cook sheets of lefse on a recent Wednesday in Bemidji. Thorsgard recruited her mother-in-law to teach her and some friends to ...

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 ...

MaryBeth Davis fills her holidays with family, friends and lots of lefse. Davis, of Cutten, has been eating the traditional soft, thin Norwegian flatbread since she was a child. “Lefse is probably one ...

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 ...