Kumla!

You may or may not know what Kumla is, but I grew up with it. My grandparents were from North Dakota, and it seems that there is, or at least was a high concentration of Norwegians living there. Kumla is a Norwegian word I think, and although you may have had a similar dish, it probably wasn't as good as my grandma's Kumla. It seems like everytime I visited them, they happened to be making it for dinner.

Kumla is essentially just potato dumplings, though it's so much better! You boil a big pot of water, flavor it with vegetable broth, cook some meat (lamb, roast beef, etc..) in the broth for a while for flavor, then grate some baker potatoes and form them into tennis size balls and boil them til done. People have different ways of making and eating them, but we always just cut a piece off and swiped it through some butter. It takes a few hours to make, but isn't it worth it for one of the greatest meals of all time?

Boiling the kumla balls.

The finished meal!