so here's a little secret of comfort fusion cooking

Swedes eat risgrynsgröt, rice porridge, for Christmas. It's basically rice boiled with milk, and served with sugar, cinnamon, and cold milk. Sounds familiar?

Sounds like Arroz Con Leche, the sweet Latin rice pudding made and served in similar ways.

If the whole boiling rice with milk and keeping it from burning seems a little daunting, here's a tip: Next time you make sticky Asian rice, put a little in a bowl, add a pat of butter, sugar, cinnamon, milk, and salt (if you didn't add any to the water before.) Mmm.

And yeah actually the Swedish Santa Claus doesn't get cookies, he gets rice pudding. That's how good it is.