Oofta! Potato Dumplings!

Ode to Swedish Potato Dumplings!

When I was a little girl in Minnesota my mother and grandmother would make Swedish Keopkakker also known as Potato Dumplings. My mother would use the grease from the fry pan used to fry up the pork or ham and make a gravy to pour over the dumplings.

My oh my…we ate these up quicker than she could serve them up.

Left overs were sliced up and fried in butter.

We pronounced it “Crewb’-cah-cah” Oofta—My mouth waters just thinking about them!

Mom and Jitterbug

One weekend soon my daughter and I will be whipping up a batch to see if they taste as good today as they did some fifty years ago!

It’s a good thing she’s in nursing school…this might just be a heart attack in a pan…

Oofta! This guy is a real hero!…saves 5 people from burning building!

Mark Howard Click here!

 

Imagine being in your favorite coffee shop…visiting with your friends and neighbors…when someone breaks through the door, yelling…”There’s a building on fire….help.”

Some might walk out to watch the fire…but not commercial fisherman Mark Howard.   Without thought to his own safety he left the coffee shop and when he learned people were still in the burning building he went in after them.  Bravery knows no bounds and neither does Howard.  Before firefighters could arrive he rescued five people during two separate trips into the flames. 

In a world filled with bad news…it fills my heart with joy to know heros still exist in real life, not just on television.