Holiday Traditions From the Casa de Suna Team

“One of our favorite family traditions during the holidays is to gather around for a fondue night. We start with the classic cheese fondue and serve it with baguettes, charcuterie, gherkin pickles, and onions. But the indulgence doesn’t stop there. After dinner, we have a dessert chocolate fondue that we serve with shortbread cookies and fruit, such as strawberries, bananas, grapes, pineapple, and mandarins. 

“My family and I always have a themed dessert competition during the holidays. We’ll start by selecting a panel of three-to-four judges (usually our guests or in-laws who are invited for dinner), and then we select one seasonal ingredient to be the theme of our bake-off. It gets pretty serious, we even have a trophy that gets passed around to the winner!” 

“It wouldn’t be a family holiday without an endless array of games and entertainment. Each Christmas, we have a full line-up of activities including – but not limited to – a signature cocktail, Twelve Days of Christmas singalong, cousin Yankee swap, and LRC tournament (with scratch tickets instead of the classic chips). 

Since we have a big family, which is always growing with new significant others, we always take a moment to ‘initiate’ our newest guest by throwing them right into the mix. A solo for five-golden rings? Yup. Getting the worst number during the yankee swap? Definitely.”