I'm surprised you haven't tried the dutch way of celebrating a festive dinner yet! It's called Gourmetten and most dutch people eat like this on Christmas. You have a little electric grill or little pans in the middle of the table and small pieces of meat, fish and vegetables, sauces, bread and salads and you just sit around the table all night cooking your own little meal all night long, so nobody is cooking dinner in the kitchen all day long. I really think you and the fam will love it! Lots of love from the Netherlands ❤️
Ah that is so interesting! The concept kind of reminds me of Raclette or Fondue. I live in Germany and I know that a lot of my friends have these dishes either on Christmas Day or New Years Eve! :)
The netherlanda have got it going on!!! This sounds so perfect for celebrating, no one person stuck cooking with all the usual stress that comes alongside! I may suggest this for my family hehe 💓
Loved these different meals! As a Brit who moved to Aus 12 years ago it’s very strange to wrap your head around not having a proper roast but let me tell you, it suuuucks cooking a roast in temps in the high 30’s. Did it once and never will again. Over here it tends to be more of a brunch/lunch situation with lots of fresh seafood and salads plus a Christmas ham, then I personally do a mini roast for a late evening meal when it’s a bit more enjoyable to eat. It’s mango and stone fruit season so there’s always a mango salad and usually a big bowl of cherries. Plus pavlova for dessert passion fruit on top.
I live in the southeast USA so it's technically winter at Christmas but it can be hot here, like 80f (27c) sometimes and we definitely do more outdoor and fresh foods than some parts of the USA. When I was a kid my dad smoked porked loins or fried turkey every year. We have broccoli salad usually, cold dessert/cream salads as well, but we still do a lot of heavy traditional northern hemisphere stuff!
@@sarahy2799 omg me too! All I want is a festive hot chocolate and to be all toasty in comfy cosy clothes watching Christmas films. We made it home in 2018 for Xmas and I did allllll the things lol
As an Aussie that moved to Europe for work, to me it was the complete opposite! It was so strange having to adjust to celebrating Christmas in winter, on Christmas eve and at night! But, after more than 6 years in Europe, I couldn't see celebrating Christmas any other way! Plus over here we have all the Christmas markets and mulled wine
Thanks for doing Australia! The fact that it could be between 30-40c weather during our Christmas is definitely a huge factor! My family always does traditional roast with salads thrown in. The English influence is strong!
I think you would love it even more if you used olive oil instead of butter in the Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá. Here in Portugal, we mostly use olive oil to cook, it's a national treasure (although many mediterranean countries use it too ahahah)
Cabbage wraps are amazing. 1) over season the meat as it boils out! 2)put the oil in and fry them until the cabbage browns before putting water 3) season the water with more than salt and pepper, I normally do it in veg stock. Please retry! It's amazing when it has move flavour
The thing about Australia is that there are so many nationalities so everyone's Christmas looks a little bit different and is inspired by different cuisines. If you wanted to do a 'traditional' Australian Christmas it would probably just look exactly like an English one. Also lol Christmas in Australia is one of the hottest times of the year hence barbeques and salads
The salads remind me of the ones you'll find in the December/January Coles and woolworths magazines not anything traditional or common. Which is really nice.
Not gonna lie I was thinking pasta and potato salad when she said salads 😂 good ol coles and woolies chicken, salad and roll would suffice a lot of us for Christmas 🤣
Oh my God, I'm so happy that you have tried meals from Greece! And thank you for mentioning that meals differ from town to town 🇬🇷❤ have been following you for years, you are such a wonderful human being, greetings from Greece!
Hugs from Poland Grace !!! As a Polish I can say that my absolute Christmas fave is mushroom soup :) Lil fun fact is we actually don't have like 12 proper dishes but there is just a tradition of 12 things to eat on a table - sometimes we even count salt and pepper !
yayyy Finland! 😍🇫🇮 I’m sooo glad you liked it! my personal faves are definitely sweetened potato casserole and carrot casserole, similar to what you did with swede! 😋 and actually, peas are a part of (at least my family’s) Christmas dinner, so your decision to add them to your dish was on point! ahh I’m already craving Christmas food… 🤤🤤
Do they call lanttu swede in English? I was so confused why it was the Finnish christmas dinner and she kept talking about swedes 😅 I had a comment thread recently where I was trying to explain lanttulaatikko but appearently it’s an extremely rare vegetable that few know about outside of scandinavia, and the only translation I could find was rutabaga. (And we also have peas on christmas btw)
@@Eucis93 haha I was sooo confused too when she kept talking about swedes while making Finnish food, but eventually I realised she was talking about lanttu, not Swedish people 😂 so I wasn’t familiar with the translation either, I’ve also heard that some people call lanttu ”turnip” (but that translates to nauris?)
The English language seems to wildly use the word turnip for both kålrot/lanttu (big yellow)and majrova/nauris (small white and purple)depending on which English speaking country you’re in. But rutabaga/swede is lanttu and turnip is nauris.
yeah as an australian i can confirm that our christmas meals are super chill - just chuck seafood and meat on the barbie and have salads on the side. it can get pretty hot so we can't be bothered slaving away in the kitchen with the oven on hahaha
I think it varies. We do the full english roast and plum pudding no matter what the temperature is. That is lunch and then dinner is leftovers with a salad.
Grace is amazing at cooking! Watching others cook always makes me wonder if anyone else feels sick while cooking? Cooking takes away my appetite completely? Anyone else? I think it’s probably so weird
My boyfriend is Portuguese and every Christmas Eve we have Arroz de Pato it’s incredible 😍😍 it’s basically duck with rice and chorizo and a bunch of other stuff thrown in but it’s my favourite besides all of the deserts they make too! You should try making this dish though and let us know what you think about it!
I love watching your "from around the world" videos, they're always so fun to watch!! I was not expecting to see you try dishes from my country (Poland) so I was pleasantly surprised (and I'm soo glad you liked it) ^^ I love celebrating Christmas here, lots of delicious food, all the family members gathering together, such a wonderful time of the year.
The cabbage rolls are very similar to the ones we make in Poland, not necrssarily for christmas but they're called 'Gołąbki' (translated to piegons) and its the same thing but with rice and meat/veggie filling, usually served with a tomato sauce!
Haha, similar to the Hungarian version too, I think it's a sort of Eastern European thing. Also the carp and potato salad is the same in Hungary too, also very common to only have fish on Christmas eve and no meat. Although only one half of the country have the fish dinner, on the other half of the country stuffed cabbage leaves are the preferred dish. I always thought the Greek version was wrapped in grape leaves rather than cabbage, but I don't know where I got that from. 😂
As a Greek myself, I can say you did amazing!! To be quite honest, I don't really like the cabbage rolls (lahanontolmas) too , but everybody seems to love them hahaha The chicken soup with augolemono is an absolute fave!! Loved the video
As an Australian I have never eaten any of those salads and I was super surprised to see them. We've definitely always done a bbq/meats with salads but in my family its usually potato salads, pasta salads and just like fresh garden style salads. Maybe some coleslaw. Those all still looked super tasty! It was cool to see how Christmas varies country to country and person to person
I loved this! Once went to Australia around Christmas time when I was a kid, it was mid-summer in the southern hemisphere and to say my little kid brain was confused is an understatement! To me, as a British person, Christmas means hot, hearty and rich foods and cold dark weather
As an Australian I can honestly say I wish it was cold here at Christmas. Actually I wish it snowed😂😂 It doesn’t so we have what we have because it’s hot 🥵 😂
New Zealand similar to Australia, for us its either a hot traditional Christmas roast with christmas pudding custard and cream or its cold ham salads, BBQ meats garlic bread and Pavalova or Trifle. Either is Gooooood.
You've made a small mistake and mentioned Iceland in the title instead of Poland! As a Polish fan I was pleasently suprised when you unexpectedly started talking about Poland in the video. :P
Thank you for doing Portugal 🇵🇹 💖💖💖 the only thing I’d say is that in Portugal in general we don’t use butter, we use olive oil it looks delicious still
So happy you enjoyed the portuguese dish ☺️ The only thing is, I’ve never seen anyone use melted butter, in my family we always use olive oil. Oh and we mix the egg with everything else or do a layer of it on top
Love seeing Aussie christmas food! Christmas in Summer took my English dad some time to get used to, but soon enough everyone loves Christmas on the beach lol
SALTED COD IS DIVINE!! Bacalhau á Brás Bacalhau com todos Bacalhau com natas Bacalhau á Gomes de Sá Bacalhau á Lagareiro Bacalhau com Broa Bacalhau Espiritual Bacalhau á Zé do Pipo The list is ENDLESS!!!
Hey, you should try the Serbian Christmas tradition, it's called Česnica, basically it's Christmas bread that gets baked with a clean coin inside of it, and on the Christmas morning the bread is equally divided among the family members and whoever gets the coin in their piece is belived to have the most luck in the following year
She should make sarma, kačamak/pura, kupus salata, pečenje, and čupavci for an authentic Serbian christmas feast. At least that’s what we always have haha!
As a polish person I was so so happy to see your recreation! My favorite thing from the dinner is always borscht with dumplings. I wait the whole year it!
The cabbage rolls are almost the same as we use to eat here in Germany. We just fry them sharply before cooking it in the oven and the filling is minced meat, but mostly spiced like regular meat balls (pepper, salt, paprika, mustard, one egg). And the gravy is made out of the remaining in the pot and some tomato paste 🤗
this was so cool to see what people eat at Christmas. I'm from Australia and it's interesting even within my own family. We usually do one year with my mum's side where we do salads (Christmas isn't Christmas without a wombok salad in our house) and usually Christmas ham or a barbecue and the alternate year with my dad's side we have a sit down hot roast dinner. My family have always done lunch as the main meal as well and then we eat the leftovers for dinner if we're peckish
Love this video, it’s very interesting to see what Christmas dinners look like around the world; even from household to household world be interesting. I live in Australia and the whole family (mixed nationalities) comes together for a Christmas late lunch that includes ham, turkey (with cranberry sauce and gravy of course) pigs in a blanket, roasted potatoes, roasted veg and stuffing.
As an Aussie I have never had any of what you had but everyone Christmas is different some people love seafood some people are ham and pork or turkey with just veggies some are salads depending where you live , pavlova and trifle are always for dessert it’s fun to see how some spend there lunch/dinner
I loved these. And I loved looking at Portugal. Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá is a great dish, although my favourite is creamy Bacalhau com Natas. During Christmas, my family normally has cooked octopus with roasted new england and sweet potatoes as a main. There is also a cog fish version (Polvo or Bacalhau à Lagareiro).
Greek here🙋♀️ I am impressed I really liked your video and the soup looked amazing!In general good representation of what we eat on the holidays. If I can only correct you on the laxanodomlades(cabbage rolls)the leafs for your cabbage rolls were to hard and you roll them a little bit to big . Normally when done properly this dish melts in your mouth. Most Greek families make them with onion, ground beef and rice and the spices everyone uses varies however everyone I know makes it with cumin,salt,paprika,pepper and sometimes parsley. We always serve them with an augolemono sauce like the one you made for the chicken soup.
Oh my gosh I love this idea!! How different cultures celebrate Christmas and the holiday season thinking that Australia have salads and such as their Christmas “dinner” is so bizarre but of course it’s summer there so makes total sense. Love travelling the world via foods and traditions💓✈️
I love that you included Greece because I feel like in these videos, people rarely do so! The chicken lemon soup is one of my favs in general because of how creamy it is. I've honestly havent heard of people making pork for Christmas but the cabbage dish seems different to what my family makes. A good tip is to actually boil the head of cabbage until its more tender so that it prevents it from breaking! It just seemed underseasoned to me, it can be in the same flavours as the chicken soup. And yes greek food has A LOT of lemon, I use lemon in everything!
Grace Booth you are a legend. I was gonna watch last years this evening and was surprised with a new one!! These are my favourites you help make me feel so festive - big love
I love love love these videos where you do food from around the world. And I also love seeing people in the comments really happy about you showcasing their countries and their food.
Those are some fancy salads. Most Aussie BBQ just have the basic potato salad, coleslaw maybe a garden salad. But some people do go fancier for Chrissie. My personal favourites at Christmas are ham off the bone, salads, trifle and chicken ripple cake.
I love these videos! I'm from New Zealand and my family usually does roast turkey with stuffing, roast lamb, cranberry sauce, boiled new potatoes, peas, carrots, salads, and then pavlova, ambrosia, and cheesecake with fresh berries for dessert (we like a lot of options and then end up eating leftovers for days). However this year I'm having Christmas dinner with my partner's family for the first time so it will be interesting to see what their traditions are.
We have transitioned from a formal dinner, very similar to Thanksgiving, to an everything-goes, casual, snack-all-day plan. We eat all the things we resist the rest of the year. We have so many things on the menu this year, we’ll be going for several days.
The polish salad is my fave but next time try the beet soup or Pierogi or krokiety. Soo good. Also we make cabbage rolls but add Tomatoes sauce to them. Ahh I'm getting excited 😊
Let me be the first Finn to comment your swede gratin is nothing like the one we normally have at Christmas, but I’m not gonna lie, it looks roughly 2700 % better than the traditional version! 😍 edit: I see Poland is standing in for Iceland today, cool cool
Grace's swede gratin looks so delicious but I can't deal with how far away it is from lanttulaatikko 😂 I kept going no no no to my screen when I understood the cheese sauce is going on the swedes.
As a British ex-pat in Australia, I vowed fervently that I would always maintain our traditional Christmas dinner. I have never done it in 16 years! I cannot imagine trying to survive in a hot kitchen in a Queensland summer and eating all that heavy food! Surf and Turf all the way for us, these days - the biggest, best prawns and steak we can afford, together with boiled new potatoes and a simple green salad. Yummers. Smoked ham and a selection of salads for supper. Easy as pie, too!
I love auvgolemono!! I'm Dutch but during uni I lived together with my Cypriot friend, and she always used to make auvgolemono for me whenever I wasn't feeling well. It's the BEST medicine!
I´m so glad you loved our Christmas dinner that we normally eat at "consoada" and that it was your favourite from the 5 countries (which I wasn´t expecting to be your favourite, but we really have one of the best gastronomies in the world). Also you could do a video eating only portuguese mealsfor 24 hours or just trying some of our food and snacks. Loved the video, much love from Portugal! :)
yay! so excited for this video, i love seeing you cook and learning about cuisines of different cultures 💞 p.s. i really hope you try doing russian new year celebration dishes (i would say it's celebrated more than christmas around here) one day! it's a feast! can't wait for winter holidays lol
I’m Hungarian and I think it was only my family as Hungarian traditional don’t eat meat on Christmas Eve but my Nan was like nah we’re having meat. So we have Breaded Chicken - Rántott hús, potatoes with caramelised onions, cucumber salad - Uborkasaláta, rice with onion and peas- Rizi bizi and to finish it all off beigli - rolled dough with either poppy seeds all walnuts! In my opinion the best Christmas dinner. My husband is Australian and they have a mix of traditional and new but if they can use the bbq they will. Love your channel btw
You would love the Dutch Christmas dinner "gourmetten", it's like lots of picky bits!! Its like a raclette you cook bits of meat, veggies, egg, etc on. With bread and dips on the side
A finn here, the swede casserole is really nothing like the traditional finnish dish (no cheese in ours, also it's always pureed), but i think not many people would like the classic finnish xmas casseroles :D They're a bit of an acquired texture. I might have to try that gratin you did though, it sounds great!
@@samtashy5130 the names of swedes, turnips and rutabaga are sometimes used interchangeably, but the one we use is somewhat round and the thick skin yellow/green color.
I’m a Tasmanian (Australian), we have a traditional roast Christmas lunch. Tea time is usually cold meats and salads. Never have I had a mango salad! Tassie is the most southern state and our weather can still reach quite cold temperatures even in the summer, snow is not unheard of in a Tassie summer!
As an Australian, never heard of any of those salads but totally on brand. You should try a Wombok salad in the Summer, it is almost always at gatherings and been at all my Christmas meals. Definitely is divided whether to have a hot meal or a cold meal, but my solution is generally one of each - having a roast + potato bake, hot salads etc meal for lunch, then using the roast ham cold with salads for dinner so you can still go all out for dessert.
Hey! You nailed the Polish fish, it looked amazing! You asked in the video about whether or not you eat the salad with the fish so thought I'd let you know what we do. The potato salad is usually ate with bread/ more of as a Christmas breakfast thing more than with the actual dinner itself (at least in my household). The fish would normally be served with some mashed potato or bread as well. Also I know they are a lot of hassle but you should defo try making pierogi at some point, they are the centrepiece of most polish xmas dinners
Thank you for showing Portugal! Bacalhau à Gomes de sa is amazing, but sometimes it depends on what bacalhau (fish) dish you try as there is different dishes to choose. You should defo try bacalhau com natas you would probably like it better 👏🏼🥰
I'm surprised you haven't tried the dutch way of celebrating a festive dinner yet! It's called Gourmetten and most dutch people eat like this on Christmas. You have a little electric grill or little pans in the middle of the table and small pieces of meat, fish and vegetables, sauces, bread and salads and you just sit around the table all night cooking your own little meal all night long, so nobody is cooking dinner in the kitchen all day long. I really think you and the fam will love it! Lots of love from the Netherlands ❤️
yess! It's so much fun 🥰
Ah that is so interesting! The concept kind of reminds me of Raclette or Fondue. I live in Germany and I know that a lot of my friends have these dishes either on Christmas Day or New Years Eve! :)
The netherlanda have got it going on!!! This sounds so perfect for celebrating, no one person stuck cooking with all the usual stress that comes alongside! I may suggest this for my family hehe 💓
That is dedication from Papa Booth - doing a barbecue in the dark and cold!
Loved these different meals! As a Brit who moved to Aus 12 years ago it’s very strange to wrap your head around not having a proper roast but let me tell you, it suuuucks cooking a roast in temps in the high 30’s. Did it once and never will again. Over here it tends to be more of a brunch/lunch situation with lots of fresh seafood and salads plus a Christmas ham, then I personally do a mini roast for a late evening meal when it’s a bit more enjoyable to eat. It’s mango and stone fruit season so there’s always a mango salad and usually a big bowl of cherries. Plus pavlova for dessert passion fruit on top.
I live in the southeast USA so it's technically winter at Christmas but it can be hot here, like 80f (27c) sometimes and we definitely do more outdoor and fresh foods than some parts of the USA. When I was a kid my dad smoked porked loins or fried turkey every year. We have broccoli salad usually, cold dessert/cream salads as well, but we still do a lot of heavy traditional northern hemisphere stuff!
Sometimes I wish it was cold enough to have a roast. Also seeing people going on about hot chocolates in the UK make me envious 😂
@@sarahy2799 omg me too! All I want is a festive hot chocolate and to be all toasty in comfy cosy clothes watching Christmas films. We made it home in 2018 for Xmas and I did allllll the things lol
As an Aussie that moved to Europe for work, to me it was the complete opposite! It was so strange having to adjust to celebrating Christmas in winter, on Christmas eve and at night! But, after more than 6 years in Europe, I couldn't see celebrating Christmas any other way! Plus over here we have all the Christmas markets and mulled wine
I'm Australian we have a roast but then its cold for Christmas day. Our Christmas can get to be up to 40C no one wants a hot dinner in that heat
I'd love to see you try a Caribbean Christmas. I'd be happy to send you some recipes. Love all the way from Trinidad and Tobago! 🇹🇹
That would be a great video. Love seeing different dishes from around the world
That’d be a great idea. Grace could cook her viewers’ Christmas recipes or even just viewers’ favourite recipes.
Thanks for doing Australia! The fact that it could be between 30-40c weather during our Christmas is definitely a huge factor! My family always does traditional roast with salads thrown in. The English influence is strong!
I think you would love it even more if you used olive oil instead of butter in the Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá. Here in Portugal, we mostly use olive oil to cook, it's a national treasure (although many mediterranean countries use it too ahahah)
Also it has to be a extra Virgin good quality Olive oil! 👌👌
I LOVE this video idea! WHO ELSE CANNOT WAIT UNTIL CHRISTMAS? 🎄☃🍾
All my decorations are already up!! 😄🎄
Cabbage wraps are amazing.
1) over season the meat as it boils out!
2)put the oil in and fry them until the cabbage browns before putting water
3) season the water with more than salt and pepper, I normally do it in veg stock.
Please retry! It's amazing when it has move flavour
Oooo I hope she re tries it like this
The thing about Australia is that there are so many nationalities so everyone's Christmas looks a little bit different and is inspired by different cuisines. If you wanted to do a 'traditional' Australian Christmas it would probably just look exactly like an English one. Also lol Christmas in Australia is one of the hottest times of the year hence barbeques and salads
The salads remind me of the ones you'll find in the December/January Coles and woolworths magazines not anything traditional or common. Which is really nice.
@@ashleami hahaha I know right! Give me a good old fashioned pasta salad and I'll be right
Not gonna lie I was thinking pasta and potato salad when she said salads 😂 good ol coles and woolies chicken, salad and roll would suffice a lot of us for Christmas 🤣
Yeah we often have a traditional Christmas lunch and then cold meat, rolls and salads for dinner
@@xmardi.louisex1057 sounds like our usual weekend feed tbh 😂
Oh my God, I'm so happy that you have tried meals from Greece! And thank you for mentioning that meals differ from town to town 🇬🇷❤ have been following you for years, you are such a wonderful human being, greetings from Greece!
Hugs from Poland Grace !!! As a Polish I can say that my absolute Christmas fave is mushroom soup :) Lil fun fact is we actually don't have like 12 proper dishes but there is just a tradition of 12 things to eat on a table - sometimes we even count salt and pepper !
yayyy Finland! 😍🇫🇮 I’m sooo glad you liked it! my personal faves are definitely sweetened potato casserole and carrot casserole, similar to what you did with swede! 😋 and actually, peas are a part of (at least my family’s) Christmas dinner, so your decision to add them to your dish was on point! ahh I’m already craving Christmas food… 🤤🤤
♥️♥️♥️ the girl did good!!!
Do they call lanttu swede in English? I was so confused why it was the Finnish christmas dinner and she kept talking about swedes 😅 I had a comment thread recently where I was trying to explain lanttulaatikko but appearently it’s an extremely rare vegetable that few know about outside of scandinavia, and the only translation I could find was rutabaga.
(And we also have peas on christmas btw)
@@Eucis93 haha I was sooo confused too when she kept talking about swedes while making Finnish food, but eventually I realised she was talking about lanttu, not Swedish people 😂 so I wasn’t familiar with the translation either, I’ve also heard that some people call lanttu ”turnip” (but that translates to nauris?)
The English language seems to wildly use the word turnip for both kålrot/lanttu (big yellow)and majrova/nauris (small white and purple)depending on which English speaking country you’re in. But rutabaga/swede is lanttu and turnip is nauris.
yeah as an australian i can confirm that our christmas meals are super chill - just chuck seafood and meat on the barbie and have salads on the side. it can get pretty hot so we can't be bothered slaving away in the kitchen with the oven on hahaha
I think it varies. We do the full english roast and plum pudding no matter what the temperature is. That is lunch and then dinner is leftovers with a salad.
Grace is amazing at cooking! Watching others cook always makes me wonder if anyone else feels sick while cooking? Cooking takes away my appetite completely? Anyone else? I think it’s probably so weird
My boyfriend is Portuguese and every Christmas Eve we have Arroz de Pato it’s incredible 😍😍 it’s basically duck with rice and chorizo and a bunch of other stuff thrown in but it’s my favourite besides all of the deserts they make too! You should try making this dish though and let us know what you think about it!
Codfish different ways is totally my Christmas with the family. So happy you liked it ❤️ hugs from Portugal
bacalhau espiritual is my favourite 😳
I love watching your "from around the world" videos, they're always so fun to watch!! I was not expecting to see you try dishes from my country (Poland) so I was pleasantly surprised (and I'm soo glad you liked it) ^^ I love celebrating Christmas here, lots of delicious food, all the family members gathering together, such a wonderful time of the year.
The cabbage rolls are very similar to the ones we make in Poland, not necrssarily for christmas but they're called 'Gołąbki' (translated to piegons) and its the same thing but with rice and meat/veggie filling, usually served with a tomato sauce!
ukraine too! same recipe, my ukrainian grandma always served cabbage rolls for christmas dinner
@@fleuricaa ah nice! Must be a European thing haha
Haha, similar to the Hungarian version too, I think it's a sort of Eastern European thing.
Also the carp and potato salad is the same in Hungary too, also very common to only have fish on Christmas eve and no meat. Although only one half of the country have the fish dinner, on the other half of the country stuffed cabbage leaves are the preferred dish. I always thought the Greek version was wrapped in grape leaves rather than cabbage, but I don't know where I got that from. 😂
@@deMOCKracy-xk8dj There are both grape leaves and cabbage leaves rolls in Greece, so you are right!
As a Greek myself, I can say you did amazing!! To be quite honest, I don't really like the cabbage rolls (lahanontolmas) too , but everybody seems to love them hahaha The chicken soup with augolemono is an absolute fave!! Loved the video
As an Australian I have never eaten any of those salads and I was super surprised to see them. We've definitely always done a bbq/meats with salads but in my family its usually potato salads, pasta salads and just like fresh garden style salads. Maybe some coleslaw.
Those all still looked super tasty! It was cool to see how Christmas varies country to country and person to person
I loved this! Once went to Australia around Christmas time when I was a kid, it was mid-summer in the southern hemisphere and to say my little kid brain was confused is an understatement! To me, as a British person, Christmas means hot, hearty and rich foods and cold dark weather
As an Australian I can honestly say I wish it was cold here at Christmas. Actually I wish it snowed😂😂 It doesn’t so we have what we have because it’s hot 🥵 😂
New Zealand similar to Australia, for us its either a hot traditional Christmas roast with christmas pudding custard and cream or its cold ham salads, BBQ meats garlic bread and Pavalova or Trifle. Either is Gooooood.
You've made a small mistake and mentioned Iceland in the title instead of Poland! As a Polish fan I was pleasently suprised when you unexpectedly started talking about Poland in the video. :P
yes omg I was like....what WHAT we got in too?
I'm always excited when someone tries polish food but I'm proud of her for doing her best with all the Christmas meals from different countries
Omg I was like I must’ve missed the Iceland one
@@sandral7829 I'm 9 months late but omg polish food is delicious
Thank you for doing Portugal 🇵🇹 💖💖💖 the only thing I’d say is that in Portugal in general we don’t use butter, we use olive oil it looks delicious still
So happy you enjoyed the portuguese dish ☺️
The only thing is, I’ve never seen anyone use melted butter, in my family we always use olive oil. Oh and we mix the egg with everything else or do a layer of it on top
And do people here put it in the oven? I never did...
@@carolinacintrao4473 yes!! I’ve always put it in the oven
Love seeing Aussie christmas food! Christmas in Summer took my English dad some time to get used to, but soon enough everyone loves Christmas on the beach lol
Grace your videos are so wholesome.
This is the happiest I've felt in a long time, thank you for the Christmas cheer Gracie ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Aussie here :) every Christmas we do cold cut meats ham off the bone, turkey and chicken and prawns. Then lots of salads fresh fruit.
SALTED COD IS DIVINE!!
Bacalhau á Brás
Bacalhau com todos
Bacalhau com natas
Bacalhau á Gomes de Sá
Bacalhau á Lagareiro
Bacalhau com Broa
Bacalhau Espiritual
Bacalhau á Zé do Pipo
The list is ENDLESS!!!
Hey, you should try the Serbian Christmas tradition, it's called Česnica, basically it's Christmas bread that gets baked with a clean coin inside of it, and on the Christmas morning the bread is equally divided among the family members and whoever gets the coin in their piece is belived to have the most luck in the following year
Many countries have the same tradition
She should make sarma, kačamak/pura, kupus salata, pečenje, and čupavci for an authentic Serbian christmas feast. At least that’s what we always have haha!
Bravo slazem se ❤️🙏pozz iz Zagreba
Wow bravo 🥰
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After binge watching graces xmas content from last year, i am SO happy for this years content!!! ❤️
Greetings from Greece Grace !! 🇬🇷 That was a wonderful representation of our traditional dishes 💖👏 I loved the other dinners too !!!
As a polish person I was so so happy to see your recreation! My favorite thing from the dinner is always borscht with dumplings. I wait the whole year it!
The cabbage rolls are almost the same as we use to eat here in Germany. We just fry them sharply before cooking it in the oven and the filling is minced meat, but mostly spiced like regular meat balls (pepper, salt, paprika, mustard, one egg). And the gravy is made out of the remaining in the pot and some tomato paste 🤗
this was so cool to see what people eat at Christmas. I'm from Australia and it's interesting even within my own family. We usually do one year with my mum's side where we do salads (Christmas isn't Christmas without a wombok salad in our house) and usually Christmas ham or a barbecue and the alternate year with my dad's side we have a sit down hot roast dinner. My family have always done lunch as the main meal as well and then we eat the leftovers for dinner if we're peckish
I'm Australian too ,and I totally agree with you, especially the wombok salad 😃
Yes wombok salad is my favourite part of Christmas! Even though I could make it year round 😅
@@serenity8739 hahaha, I do make it all year round but still love it for Christmas
Love this video, it’s very interesting to see what Christmas dinners look like around the world; even from household to household world be interesting.
I live in Australia and the whole family (mixed nationalities) comes together for a Christmas late lunch that includes ham, turkey (with cranberry sauce and gravy of course) pigs in a blanket, roasted potatoes, roasted veg and stuffing.
As an Aussie I have never had any of what you had but everyone Christmas is different some people love seafood some people are ham and pork or turkey with just veggies some are salads depending where you live , pavlova and trifle are always for dessert it’s fun to see how some spend there lunch/dinner
I loved these. And I loved looking at Portugal. Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá is a great dish, although my favourite is creamy Bacalhau com Natas. During Christmas, my family normally has cooked octopus with roasted new england and sweet potatoes as a main. There is also a cog fish version (Polvo or Bacalhau à Lagareiro).
Greek here🙋♀️ I am impressed I really liked your video and the soup looked amazing!In general good representation of what we eat on the holidays. If I can only correct you on the laxanodomlades(cabbage rolls)the leafs for your cabbage rolls were to hard and you roll them a little bit to big . Normally when done properly this dish melts in your mouth. Most Greek families make them with onion, ground beef and rice and the spices everyone uses varies however everyone I know makes it with cumin,salt,paprika,pepper and sometimes parsley. We always serve them with an augolemono sauce like the one you made for the chicken soup.
Sounds more tasty 😋
Oh my gosh I love this idea!! How different cultures celebrate Christmas and the holiday season thinking that Australia have salads and such as their Christmas “dinner” is so bizarre but of course it’s summer there so makes total sense. Love travelling the world via foods and traditions💓✈️
I love that you included Greece because I feel like in these videos, people rarely do so! The chicken lemon soup is one of my favs in general because of how creamy it is. I've honestly havent heard of people making pork for Christmas but the cabbage dish seems different to what my family makes. A good tip is to actually boil the head of cabbage until its more tender so that it prevents it from breaking! It just seemed underseasoned to me, it can be in the same flavours as the chicken soup. And yes greek food has A LOT of lemon, I use lemon in everything!
When Papa Booth said "Silly beach" and it sounded like he was saying something else to the family 😂
Grace Booth you are a legend. I was gonna watch last years this evening and was surprised with a new one!! These are my favourites you help make me feel so festive - big love
You should do this same idea but with christmas breakfasts! I love this video, thank you 😊
Aww yesss I'm here for ALL your Christmas content!! 💛✨
i was literally just watching last years edition for this and binging your old xmas content ahhh so exciting!!
Hi from Finland! 🇫🇮 I'm happy you liked our food.
I love love love these videos where you do food from around the world. And I also love seeing people in the comments really happy about you showcasing their countries and their food.
👍🙌 agree 💯
Looking forward to desserts episode on Thursday 🙌💯
Those are some fancy salads. Most Aussie BBQ just have the basic potato salad, coleslaw maybe a garden salad. But some people do go fancier for Chrissie. My personal favourites at Christmas are ham off the bone, salads, trifle and chicken ripple cake.
I love these videos! I'm from New Zealand and my family usually does roast turkey with stuffing, roast lamb, cranberry sauce, boiled new potatoes, peas, carrots, salads, and then pavlova, ambrosia, and cheesecake with fresh berries for dessert (we like a lot of options and then end up eating leftovers for days). However this year I'm having Christmas dinner with my partner's family for the first time so it will be interesting to see what their traditions are.
We have transitioned from a formal dinner, very similar to Thanksgiving, to an everything-goes, casual, snack-all-day plan. We eat all the things we resist the rest of the year. We have so many things on the menu this year, we’ll be going for several days.
The polish salad is my fave but next time try the beet soup or Pierogi or krokiety. Soo good. Also we make cabbage rolls but add Tomatoes sauce to them. Ahh I'm getting excited 😊
Let me be the first Finn to comment your swede gratin is nothing like the one we normally have at Christmas, but I’m not gonna lie, it looks roughly 2700 % better than the traditional version! 😍
edit: I see Poland is standing in for Iceland today, cool cool
Grace's swede gratin looks so delicious but I can't deal with how far away it is from lanttulaatikko 😂 I kept going no no no to my screen when I understood the cheese sauce is going on the swedes.
grace + christmas content? I AM LIVING FOR THISSSS!!!
Girl, you have been missing out if you've never had ghurkins in a potato salad!! Like I've never even heard of a version that DOESN'T have them in 😂😂😂
Agreed! In fact if not there you might get the 🤨
As a British ex-pat in Australia, I vowed fervently that I would always maintain our traditional Christmas dinner. I have never done it in 16 years! I cannot imagine trying to survive in a hot kitchen in a Queensland summer and eating all that heavy food! Surf and Turf all the way for us, these days - the biggest, best prawns and steak we can afford, together with boiled new potatoes and a simple green salad. Yummers. Smoked ham and a selection of salads for supper. Easy as pie, too!
Babe, that is the CUTEST photo of you and your dad. Much love.
The Portuguese recipe was so on point! You totally nailed it
I’m really happy that you and your family enjoyed it so much!
The cabbage rolls are much nicer with vine leaves, love from Cyprus 🇨🇾😉
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Your dad is the best! 😊
I want to see grackle go backpacking across Europe!
I love auvgolemono!! I'm Dutch but during uni I lived together with my Cypriot friend, and she always used to make auvgolemono for me whenever I wasn't feeling well. It's the BEST medicine!
Love that you included Finland❤️❤️
These are some of my favorite videos that you do!! It's amazing to see different takes on Christmas!
I´m so glad you loved our Christmas dinner that we normally eat at "consoada" and that it was your favourite from the 5 countries (which I wasn´t expecting to be your favourite, but we really have one of the best gastronomies in the world). Also you could do a video eating only portuguese mealsfor 24 hours or just trying some of our food and snacks. Loved the video, much love from Portugal! :)
Loved watching this. Thanks for sharing 👍 🎄☃️
yay! so excited for this video, i love seeing you cook and learning about cuisines of different cultures 💞
p.s. i really hope you try doing russian new year celebration dishes (i would say it's celebrated more than christmas around here) one day! it's a feast! can't wait for winter holidays lol
I’m Hungarian and I think it was only my family as Hungarian traditional don’t eat meat on Christmas Eve but my Nan was like nah we’re having meat.
So we have Breaded Chicken - Rántott hús, potatoes with caramelised onions, cucumber salad - Uborkasaláta, rice with onion and peas- Rizi bizi and to finish it all off beigli - rolled dough with either poppy seeds all walnuts! In my opinion the best Christmas dinner.
My husband is Australian and they have a mix of traditional and new but if they can use the bbq they will. Love your channel btw
portugal here, so glad that u loved ours! next u should do deserts. in here, we really like rabanadas de leite and aletria.
I absolutely adore these videos!!
I loved this! I really hope grace does vlogmas! The food the shopping the family fun ahhh all the good vibes xx
Looooove how much research you do for these types of video. Content QUEEEEEN!♥️🙌🎄
Please we need a video where you do a few homemade cat food recipes for Banksy, and she taste tests them! Maybe for her birthday.
Aww I loved that 💖 so much time & researching obviously went into it bless you xx fab video & v interesting
Would love to see a Christmas desserts from around the world. I think all of these meals looked delicious, but Greece's really spoke to me.
You would love the Dutch Christmas dinner "gourmetten", it's like lots of picky bits!! Its like a raclette you cook bits of meat, veggies, egg, etc on. With bread and dips on the side
Wooo Australia!!
My family does a roast pork with salad for Christmas lunch, so best of both worlds. That Greek soup look delish!
Yay new video,cheered up my day!
omg I was half way through the vid and thought how cool it would be if you did australia and BOOM!!! yayayaya
Sorry a moment for Papa Booth who stood in the cold cooking a BBQ in November for Grace. I Can’t cope ❤️
Excellent! I really enjoyed this video!
A finn here, the swede casserole is really nothing like the traditional finnish dish (no cheese in ours, also it's always pureed), but i think not many people would like the classic finnish xmas casseroles :D They're a bit of an acquired texture. I might have to try that gratin you did though, it sounds great!
Also I think a Swede in Finland is what British people call turnip?
@@samtashy5130 the names of swedes, turnips and rutabaga are sometimes used interchangeably, but the one we use is somewhat round and the thick skin yellow/green color.
Actually people seem to enjoy the casseroles
@@samtashy5130 it’s turnip in Scotland and Ireland, Swede in UK and rutabaga in the US. They all refer to the same root vegetable.
Your mom has the sweetest soft voice❤️❤️❤️
Yesss! Something to watch as I’m cooking most the day today! Thank you Grace!
I’m a Tasmanian (Australian), we have a traditional roast Christmas lunch. Tea time is usually cold meats and salads. Never have I had a mango salad! Tassie is the most southern state and our weather can still reach quite cold temperatures even in the summer, snow is not unheard of in a Tassie summer!
Mango salad is great. Or try a Thai pawpaw/papaya salad. So good
As an Australian, never heard of any of those salads but totally on brand. You should try a Wombok salad in the Summer, it is almost always at gatherings and been at all my Christmas meals. Definitely is divided whether to have a hot meal or a cold meal, but my solution is generally one of each - having a roast + potato bake, hot salads etc meal for lunch, then using the roast ham cold with salads for dinner so you can still go all out for dessert.
Hey! You nailed the Polish fish, it looked amazing! You asked in the video about whether or not you eat the salad with the fish so thought I'd let you know what we do. The potato salad is usually ate with bread/ more of as a Christmas breakfast thing more than with the actual dinner itself (at least in my household). The fish would normally be served with some mashed potato or bread as well. Also I know they are a lot of hassle but you should defo try making pierogi at some point, they are the centrepiece of most polish xmas dinners
Oh my you actually did Finland🥺💜 love from Finland💖💖
Thank you for showing Portugal! Bacalhau à Gomes de sa is amazing, but sometimes it depends on what bacalhau (fish) dish you try as there is different dishes to choose. You should defo try bacalhau com natas you would probably like it better 👏🏼🥰
I was typing "christmas dinners from around the world" like an hour ago and here you are manifesting it, this is spooky
Loved the video! What about making Christmas decorations from around the world with your dad?
Papa Booth.... LEGEND right there ♥️
Just need to shout out grace for teaching me how to open a jar, I think of her everytime 😂😂
thanks for highlighting the differences in regional greek cooking, so nice to see some light shone on greek food!!:)
Love this vid grack! You seem so happy latley ❤️
bay leaves add great flavor to steamed rice!
It's incredible how much work you put in videos! Polish wigilia for me exist only with tons of pierogies but also we eats lot of sweets afterwards.
Thanks for being a bright spot in my day, I needed it today. Can’t wait for Vlogmas!