Rehydrate fish by soaking it completely in ice water for a day, changing water several times, and keep in refrigerator. Lutefisk can be baked, steamed or poached. Luann Boyer recommends baking. While ...

LITCHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Dozens of Minnesota Scandinavians and the people who love them flock to the VFW Club in Litchfield every Thursday from November through January, where a $20 bill will get you ...

It's wiggly. It's jiggly. And it tastes like, well, you be the judge. Lutefisk has a bad reputation for being smelly and foul-tasting. But those who love it swear by it. Like Tom Swanson of rural ...

"Butter helps it slide down your throat," said Dennis Voss, the husband of a Norwegian-American, revealing his own survival secret for stomaching the gelatinous blob as they dined with friends on ...

"Butter helps it slide down your throat," said Dennis Voss, the husband of a Norwegian-American, revealing his own survival secret for stomaching the gelatinous blob as they dined with friends on ...

"Oh lutefisk, oh lutefisk, how fragrant your aroma. "Oh lutefisk, oh lutefisk, you put me in a coma." Stan Boreson's record was playing in the Scandinavian bakery in Stanwood where we stopped for ...

Dozens of Minnesota Scandinavians and the people who love them flock to the VFW Club in Litchfield every Thursday from November through January, where a $20 bill will get you a big steaming hunk of ...

It's terribly stinky at our family Christmas Eve evening meal. Each year, the center platter dons a fish with a texture that reminds me of Jell-O. Fish Jell-O for Christmas? It's technically lutefisk.

The much-maligned lutefisk isn’t on a rebound, hasn’t found a fresh audience and doesn’t come in exciting new flavors. The fish dish — a plank of dried cod reconstituted in caustic soda — was once ...

WILLMAR -- Forget Republican or Democrat. At the Vinje Lutheran Church lutefisk and meatball supper, held every year on Election Day, people align themselves with two different but equally polarizing ...

We've heard about good holiday foods, now it's time for the bad: Listeners share their tales of unappetizing seasonal dishes, from Jello with mayonnaise to heavy candied fruit bread to that dried ...

Chris Hicks, 55, lives and breathes lutefisk. She was in charge of the Sons of Norway Bothell Lodge’s lutefisk dinner, which over the weekend served 780 people paying $23 a plate. “We used 1,000 ...