When I was a child one of my favourite things about Christmas was lefse! Actually - lefse is still one of my favourite things about Christmas and I make sure I remind my sister every year not to forget to bring it!
Lefse, as any Norwegian or Norwegian North-American can tell you, is a simple and delicious flatbread made from potatoes, flour and cream or milk. A simple google search will turn up more recipes than you will ever need. We were brought up eating it spread with butter and sugar and sometimes cinammon and then rolled; as a specail Christmas treat.
Well, imagine my pleasure to discover you can purchase lefse in Norway, prepackaged as a snack (already spread with yummy sweet filling of sugar and cinammon). Aaste took to it as if it had always been her favourite food and is especially fond of the Vestlands Lefse variety. I prefer the thinner variety and so buy it in the grocery, like bread or tortillas and add the butter etc. myself.
I think I'll go have some right now! Yum!
This blog chronicles a 10 month period of travel that I took with my 13 year old daughter in 2007/08.
