Norske Hostfest

Start date: September 27, 2023

End date: September 30, 2023

Time: 9 AM to 7 PM

Location: North Dakota State Fairgrounds, 2005 Burdick Expy E, Minot, ND, 58701

Festival

I return to this "Scandimania" of all events, the Norsk Hostfest, which attracts busloads of Americans and Canadians wanting to enjoy their favorite performers and to shop and eat to their heart's content. I will be selling All Things Lefse (and Some Things Lutefisk) in Stockholm Hall. For the first time, I will be listed in the program as the featured lefse maker, and will do lefse-making demonstrations throughout each day of the festival. See you there?

Potato Days 2023

Date: August 25, 2023

Time: 10 AM - 8 PM

Location: Barnesville, Minnesota

A highlight of the Potato Days 2023 is the National Lefse Cookoff. I will attend and will also be at Potato Days selling All Things Lefse (and Some Things Lutefisk). Hope to see you there.

For the first time since the pandemic, I will return to the Potato Days Festival in Barnesville, Minnesota. I will be there one day only, Friday August 25, 2023, selling my lefse and lutefisk stuff and enjoying as many of the creative events as I can at one of the best festivals ever. A can't miss event: the National Lefse Cookoff (pictured).

All Things Lefse Market

Date: October 16, 2021

Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Location: 5205 Knox Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55419

Market

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All this lefse stuff in one backyard market! Be still my heart!

This All Things Lefse Market is a outdoor garden party featuring lefse and all things related. I will be demonstrating lefse making, talking up my lefse classes, and showing off my lefse and lutefisk books. But that’s just a start. On display will be:

  • The most gorgeous heirloom lefse rolling pins and lefse turning sticks you’ll see anywhere. (You know how hard it is for a Norwegian to boast?) Think walnut, cherry, cocobolo, and spalted maple. These pins, including my first one, are made by members of the Minnesota Woodturners Association.
  • Lefse earrings, yep, made of lacquered lefse.
  • Lutefisk lip balm.
  • Lefse grills and replacement parts.
  • 2022 Lefse calendar.
  • Lefse jigsaw puzzle.
  • Lefse rolling board and special blue rolling board cover.
  • Lefse rolling pin socks.
  • Colorful lefse cozies.
  • Vibrant countertop protectors for under lefse grill.
  • Lefse hoodie.
  • Lefse song score for voice and piano, also for men’s quartet.
  • Walnut flower vases.
  • Lefse illustrations.
  • Lefse and lutefisk greeting cards.
  • Nostalgic lefse mixing bowls.
  • Lefse masks.
  • Compression socks for making lefse all day.

Lefse cozies and countertop protectors.

Heirloom lefse rolling pins galore.

Books, lefse and lutefisk greeting cards, lefse song, lefse earrings and lutefisk lip balm.

Beautiful lefse turning sticks, bowls, boards, the revolutionary blue board cover, and the "Lefse is cheaper than therapy!" hoodie.

Head-turning walnut flower vases.

Lefse Classes

Start date: November 5, 2020

End date: December 22, 2020

Time: 6-8pm Central

Location: Gary’s home

Class

Two-hour classes for learning the entire process of making lefse and carrying on a grand, old Norwegian tradition.

Ingebretsen’s

Date: November 29, 2019

Time: 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Location: 1601 E Lake St., Minneapolis

Ingebretsen’s

On Black Friday, I return to this legendary shop on Lake Street (est. 1921) to sell my lefse and lutefisk books as well as the gift for the lefse maker who has everything: the 504-piece Let's Make Lefse! jigsaw puzzle. A fun shop to visit and to talk lefse!

Taste of Scandinavia

Date: November 19, 2019

Time: 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.

Location: 11100 Bren Road W Minnetonka, MN 55343

SoN Vestland Lodge

I will make and sell lefse, and I will sell All Things Lefse (and lutefisk) including: my new lefse novel, four books on lefse and lutefisk, heirloom lefse rolling pins and turning sticks, classic lefse mixing bowls, lefse cozies, the Keep On Rolling pastry board and the revolutionary blue cover, the 504-piece lefse jigsaw puzzle, lefse earrings, and even lutefisk lip balm! Stop by and let’s talk lefse!

Plate & Parcel

Date: December 22, 2019

Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Location: Wagners Garden Center, 6024 Penn Ave. S., Minneapolis

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I will make and sell lefse, and I will sell All Things Lefse (and lutefisk) including: my new lefse novel, four books on lefse and lutefisk, heirloom lefse rolling pins and turning sticks, classic lefse mixing bowls, lefse cozies, the Keep On Rolling pastry board and the revolutionary blue cover, the 504-piece lefse jigsaw puzzle, lefse earrings, and even lutefisk lip balm! Stop by and let’s talk lefse!

Plate & Parcel

Date: December 21, 2019

Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Location: Wagners Garden Center, 6024 Penn Ave. S., Minneapolis

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I will make and sell lefse, and I will sell All Things Lefse (and lutefisk) including: my new lefse novel, four books on lefse and lutefisk, heirloom lefse rolling pins and turning sticks, classic lefse mixing bowls, lefse cozies, the Keep On Rolling pastry board and the revolutionary blue cover, the 504-piece lefse jigsaw puzzle, lefse earrings, and even lutefisk lip balm! Stop by and let’s talk lefse!

Plate & Parcel

Date: December 15, 2019

Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Location: Wagners Garden Center, 6024 Penn Ave. S., Minneapolis

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I will make and sell lefse, and I will sell All Things Lefse (and lutefisk) including: my new lefse novel, four books on lefse and lutefisk, heirloom lefse rolling pins and turning sticks, classic lefse mixing bowls, lefse cozies, the Keep On Rolling pastry board and the revolutionary blue cover, the 504-piece lefse jigsaw puzzle, lefse earrings, and even lutefisk lip balm! Stop by and let’s talk lefse!

Plate & Parcel

Date: December 14, 2019

Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Location: Wagners Garden Center, 6024 Penn Ave. S., Minneapolis

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I will make and sell lefse, and I will sell All Things Lefse (and lutefisk) including: my new lefse novel, four books on lefse and lutefisk, heirloom lefse rolling pins and turning sticks, classic lefse mixing bowls, lefse cozies, the Keep On Rolling pastry board and the revolutionary blue cover, the 504-piece lefse jigsaw puzzle, lefse earrings, and even lutefisk lip balm! Stop by and let’s talk lefse!