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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the lefse recipe used by the women of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Pequot Lakes twice a year. They make lefse (pronounced "leff-sah") each summer at their church bazaar and then they make ...

For every lefse recipe handed down from grandma, there probably are a hundred more variations for making those flat potato-y rounds that taste so good with everything, said Cindy Dahl, a lefse-making ...

Family traditions run rampant this time of year, from driving around looking at holiday lights, gingerbread house competitions, and even special foods. Ashley’s in-laws have had a tradition for years ...

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 ...

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 ...

RUSHFORD, Minn. — The market for lefse, a traditional Norwegian flatbread, is relatively small in comparison to other foods, but Norsland Lefse has found a way to reach its demographic from the small ...

Are you puzzled by recipes from relatives and church cookbooks that lack necessary information? My dad’s theory about recipes with missing data is that Aunt Martha wants to be remembered as the best ...

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 ...