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“Gwen and I, our tradition has become cooking during Christmas—and not just like your normal, typical [dishes]. But we always challenge ourselves and try to come up with a different, weird, complicated, difficult thing to cook every year. It started one year [when] we, um…she wanted to do a, uh, Beef Wellington, which is not easy by the way.”

“We still try something weird and new every year. You know Gwen’s family is…there’s a lot of Italian blood in her family and so there’s tons of pastas and there’s a reason that, you know, I have a chin like a stork the last five years. It’s because I’m hanging out with the Stefani’s now.”

US Weekly, November 2022

“We cook. You see how when I talk to you and I look this way it's like a pelican now? It's because I'm married to a Stefani. She literally cooks everything all the time so our Christmas tradition has become a timpano pasta dome.”

Jennifer Hudson Show, December 2022

Blake: “We go out of our way to find a recipe, and it's always got to be the most difficult thing that you can imagine, whether it's like a beef Wellington, which I didn't even know what that was until I met you.”

Gwen: “The fact that you wanted to make a tradition out of, it's almost like an anti-tradition, because a tradition is something that you've done your whole life, and that you keep repeating. But you keep trying to not repeat and make something new again and again and again. And that makes me really uncomfortable, because growing up as a child, my parents were very traditional.”

“The idea that now I somehow have control over what we're actually putting in our mouths at Christmas, it makes me feel like I'm going to get in trouble … So anyways, thank you for pushing me, pushing me to find new creative ways to feed our family.”

Blake and Gwen, Apple Music with Love podcast, November 2021

Blake and Gwen on their Christmas tradition, various sources