In the Left Is Write kitchen today...

So far today, I have made Chex Mix, three kinds of fudge (dark chocolate, milk chocolate with walnuts, and white chocolate with pecans), and mashed potatoes for making lefse. I've already made spiced zinfandel cranberry sauce and several hundred cookies. We'll make more fudge later - my husband will take several packages to work tomorrow to give friends and coworkers - and tomorrow, I plan to make the meatballs for Christmas Eve.

I've also spent an inordinately large amount of time polishing the silver tray and S&P. I'm about to leave a message for my daughter, asking her to bring some Tarn-X home from work with her!

Anyway, sounds like you've been busy!

a rare picture folks!

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It is a Norwegian flatbread made with mashed potatoes. You make the mashed potatoes with butter, milk and salt, as if you were just going to eat them that way, then let them get cold. When the potatoes are cold, you add just enough flour to make a pliable dough, which is rolled very thinly with a special rolling pin (gives it a waffled effect). The thin rounds of dough are baked on a lefse griddle at a very high temperature (about 500 degrees) for about a minute on each side. We spread butter on it, sprinkle it with sugar, roll it up, and eat it. The process for making it sounds simple, but it really takes a lot of practice and experience to get it just right.

I've had lefse at every Thanksgiving and every Christmas since I was old enough to eat solid food. :D

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work for NPR!

shweaty balls are all the rage thse days.

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