User blog comment:Asnow89/Guided Tour: Christmas Food Traditions/@comment-1038387-20131218191420

Can't say we have many Christmas food traditions. No tree (the mess!), no carols (not raised religiously). Christmas was just going out with the family, all my uncles, and my grandma, and go to a fancy restaurant. The only tradition there was about that is me ending up with half my grandma's plate because she couldn't finish it. But that custom ended when grandma died, sadly.

The only food I associate with Christmas, which I really, really need (and haven't had yet), is a nice stol with amandelspijs. Bakery-bought (not store-bought), because my mom's a better cook than a baker.

But this year, because I don't want to come home empty-handed and am a lousy baker myself (who doesn't have an oven) I'm making rocky road.