It started to finally feel like Christmas for me today. We spent the day doing a bit of baking, i dug up a few of my grandmas recipes (too bad only one was written in english....gotta get my mom to translate the rest for me) My grandmother used to do a ton of baking around this time of year. Finnish gingerbread cookies and prune tarts are 2 of my favourites that she'd make. Today I tried making the prune tarts for the first time.... they turned out pretty decent actually, but they'll never be the same. Gonna try and tackle a few more traditional Finnish dishes to bring over to my mom as a surprise on Christmast eve, she hasnt really had much of that stuff in years.