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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. PETER — The ingredients for lefse are simple enough: potatoes, butter, cream, salt, sugar and flour. But making lefse is a challenge even for experienced bakers, said Carol Moline, former ...

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 ...

Irene Shores has a book. When the Norwegians of Grand Forks begin their annual cook-a-thon for Syttende Mai, she opens the pages with recipes, pictures and notes for the best procedures. In the book, ...

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 ...

Ellie Dykstra, 13, earned her apron this year. She wears the buff-colored smock bearing the words “Lefse is Beautiful” with enthusiasm as she mans the cooling station while her grandmother, cousin, ...

One of the beautiful things about living in the upper Midwest is that lefse could well be on the table at Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Norwegian potato flatbread might not be as important as the ...