TRYING FINNISH CHRISTMAS FOOD, BEER, GLÖGI AND CANDY 

Everyone: joulutorttu Dave Cad: finnish ninjastar

"It may only be 2,2% but... every little helps." You truly are becoming one of us Finns! 😂😂😂

how about a cooking video where you make your own joulutorttu? :D self made and eaten after slightly cooled are 100x better than store bought!

Next episode of Cat's kitchen featuring Dave Cad; finnish ninja stars. You have to make different flavors with prune, apple cinnamon and fig marmelade.

You should make your own "Finnish ninja stars", they taste so much better. Puff pastry and plum marmalade from any grocery, couldn't be any easier. And of course, it's almost a tradition to taste them before they have cooled down and burn the tongue. At least I do it every time ;)

I really love your optimism and I'm really glad as a Finn to have someone like you interested in our ninja star land You're an awesome RU-vidr one of my favourites and I hope you can know that you're encouraged all the way 🙌

Most of the homemade food in my opinion tastes 10x better than anything bought at the store, especially the lanttulaatikko. My mom makes it from scratch and I love it so much!

I could eat joulutorttu the whole year I love everything about them

Dave missed the interesting story written on the Finlandia marmelade box which connects Karl Fazer and the British Royal family.

Vihreät kuulat in a box: 11€/kg Vihreät kuulat from "irtokarkki" 6€/kg That is an expensive cardboard box and molded plastic.

From this day on I will call joulutorttu by the name Finnish ninja star 😂😂😂😂😂

I believe that the "vihreät kuulat" were the original product by fazer, and the other colours came later. So I think its because of tradition that there's a just "Vihreät kuulat" box in the stores.

Me when Dave is eating lanttulaatikko: "EAT IT WITH ROSOLLI!!!!!"

Rosolli is normally eatean with Rosolli sauce (Whipcream + Beetroot Juice) 😂 it's a non-Salad (Salad with-out Salad) with all the colors of year and thats why It comes in separated slots. If it was mixed up it would been turned Red all the way becouse of Beetroot .

You should do a video where you make those ''finnish ninja stars''.

Joulutorttu = Finnish ninja star = Swedish swastika... A beloved child has many names.... :D

Yes. Usually Lanttulaatikko is one of the most hated of boxes but it's my fav so glad you fancy it also.

Good going Dave. keep on making these

Lanttu = Rutabaga. A Swedish turnip-like root vegetable, grows larger and has milder taste than turnip. It is said to being originally a cross of cabbage and turnip. My favorite christmas dish is potato casserole though.

If you want man up the finnish ninja stars, buy the pastry from the store (freezer section) and blue mold cheese (aurajuusto) and bacon. Let the pastry unfreeze, bent the corners towards middle, then put a spoonful of aurajuusto in the middle and do a bacon rose shape roll of bacon on top of the aurajuusto. Enjoy!

lanttulaatikko is the absolute best thing about Christmas! my mother has an old recipe she inherited from her mother etc and there is absolutely nothing to beat it!

You should eat rosolli with a whipped cream spiced with canned beetroot juice 😭 Or smetana is another option. It is much better that way. ❤️

You can buy some "Finnish ninja star" dough in markets😂

Lanttulaatikko is best, when you heat it up in the oven. But the trick is, to put a little bit cream and butter on the top before the oven.

I put creme fresh on top of the rosoli, and I add diced red onion.

love when u taste those finnish foods

Ninjastars are really easy to make! Pretty much every store sells the frozen pastry in premade sheets and the prune jam. All you need to do is to add the jam and shape the sheets and bake!

I love how your expressions have turned a bit more finnish on video too with time 😁 merry christmas

Next Christmas you have to try lipeäkala. It is one of the best Christmas foods 💖

I love lanttulaatikko as well. 😘 You are so Finnish. 😄💓

10/10. Merry Xmas dad! Finnish ninja-stars are also best when home made :)

If you buy the ready made casseroles, you should add a littlebit of whole cream in them and stir well and then add bread crumbs and butter on top and bake it in the oven.

I love maksalaatikko! And I’m always on the lookout for someone to share that with me😂

Lanttulaatikko and imelletty perunalaatikko (naturally sweetened potato casserole) are my favourite laatikko's! Those with some turkey, salmon, green peas and boiled egg... Maybe somebeet casserole with bluecheese...Noms! I can't stand vihreät kuulat :E

I'm missing Christmas in Finlaaaand! I'm only living to visit in January! I'm sooooo excited though! :D

The non pre-mixed rosolli will look more colorful when you mix it just before serving. In the pre-mixed ones every ingredient has more or less the color of beetroot. :)

Ah! I secretly wished you'd make a video like this. And here it is!

Saarioinen didn't mix rosolli ingredients together because, some people may like, for example, rosolli without carrot. So buyers can do mix/mix'es, what they want.

Home made 'lanttulaatikko' is the best!

Making your own lanttulaatikko with a traditional recipe (starting with whole, raw swedes) is fairly easy. Same with the ninja stars, aka joulutorttu. Worth a try!

You have to do a video making your own joulutorttu with Cat! Hurry up, christmas is nearly here!

Lanttulaatikko is the best and it’s the favorite in my family. We always have to get more of lanttulaatikko than the others, because everyone loves it so much!😍

I love swede casserole. On the Viking Line vid you said that what you had was turnip casserole, which I thought was weird. It is a thing, but not nearly as common of an xmas food as the others.

Lanttulaatikko has always been my favorite 🤤

You could make a video where you make some homemade ninja stars, lanttulaatikko and other Finnish Cristhmas foods and compare them to ones from the stores.

Kinkku+lanttulaatikko, all you need for christmas😋

you should go visit Porvoo now around christmas, and maybe you could go to the Brunberg-factory where they make the different Suukot and a bunch of other classic sweets ;)

OMG watching with captions as I game from a foreign video and lost it when the caps dubbed Christmas lanttulaatikko into Christmas Landfill XDDDDDD

Haven't you spent Christmas in Finland before? I thought you had. It's completely different to a British Christmas dinner. Everything is mashed, and there's a lot more cold stuff eaten in the days after than in used to. I'm in Finland this Christmas too

I hope you will get a chance to taste those foods self made :) waaay better like that. My favorite xmas food is sweetened potato box ^^ totally recommend that as well

Oh man i love your humour!! 😂 great review tho 👍

your videos are amazing

Where I live, people usually have this pink mousse with rosolli, you put it on top. I don't really like rosolli, so I can't remember what the mousse is made out of either, though.

You should try Brunberg Tryffel candy, awesomeness

You kept the shirt on! Im proud of you 👌😁

You have to try Vihreä kuula "ninjastars"/joulutorttu! (or even better, make your own?)

My favorite christmas food would be kylmäsavulohi, which I believe translates into cold smoked salmon. That is absolutely delicious combined with italiansalaatti (not gonna even try to translate that one). My favorite dessert is glögi with gingerbread. From Glögi brands I think Kaskein (you get that one from Lidl) is the best. Second best is Marli glögi. Dave, can you do a video where you try out different type of christmas chocolates? Since eating chocolates at christmas is kinda a tradition :P (hint: after 24th december the chocolates will be on sale, in most stores about -50% to -70%)

Sweet potato version of ''Lanttulaatikko'' is the new king of casseroles! God i love that.

You should come to Porvoo, and visit the Brunberg factory. 😀

I love to eat rosolli with whipped cream, a spoonful of vinegar in it and beetroot as coloring. Lanttulaatikko is 6/5 for me, I frigging love it. And I'm not a fan of the jelly marbles, but you definitely eat them like they're supposed to (in my opinion). Congratulations, you're a Finn now!

Dude you are like one of us! :D And I eat those marmalade's (Vihreät Kuulat, Finlandia) just the same way!

Have you tried finnish blood sausage? Its so good.

Some meat, some peas and a bit of lanttulaatikko is amazing. If you want maybe some beetroot to give it a extra kick.

Lanttulaatikko is the worst 😂 It is so funny, how you have a wide range of taste and you are not picky on anything. Even the foods some of us Finns hate, you love 👍😄 My favorites at Christmas are carrot box, potato box, Christmas ham, peas, warm oven-fish (lax) and potatos with them. Also of course chocolate. There are still some christmas treats you haven't tasted, at least not on live for us: Fazers Christmas Chocolate editions (or winter), Wiener Nougat, After Eight (though they are not finnish), different assorted chocolate boxes (Juhlapöydän Konvehdit) and of course dark bread (not rye bread). These would be fun to see also 😄

You forgot the Porkkanalaatikko and Bataattilaatikko. xD they are like something you must have if you got the swede one. that same brand sells them.

You should eat lanttulaatikko with italiansalaatti. That's my favourite combination 😊

You have a good taste in casseroles, I approve!

the lanttulaatikko should've been oven warmth with butter on it for 45min

You have almost reached the climax of Finnish Chritmas foods. Just wait until you'll taste the homemade baking oven version of lanttulaatikko!. You're welcome next Christmas (or even sooner!-)

¨i am a happy bunny¨ the greatest thing said :)

Ad some melt butter in lanttu-, porkkana- and maksalaatikko and serve with lingonberry jam that's the old traditonal way to eat those.

most delicious: graavisiika, graavilohi, himosilakka, selfmade meatballs..... sometimes i had karelian stew in christmas

Finnish ninjastars 🤣🤣🤣 totally nailed it!

You definitely need "prinssi eversti" on your non alcohol glögi to make it alc... ;) I thing best glögi is "vaalea glögi". Try it with prinssi eversti. I promise it`s good.

Dave, you should try fazer's christmas chocolate, piparpakku maitosuklaa levy. They have sold out on these many times.

I have devoured 3 of those Talvi boxes this year already!

You have to try Julmust. Its the drink from heavens.

You should try Kantolan piparipallo!

Try Fazer Winter Edition chocolate bar. (Ginger Bread) 😊

A bit late, but have you tasted 'kuusenkerkkä glögi'? Tried it for the first time and it sure has an interesting flavour. ^^

Joulutorttu with salmiakki inside would be coooool.

You have to try lipeäkala with sinappi and valkokastike

Lanttu means "rutabaga" or also known as "swedish turnip". Its almost like the huge version of a turnip

Rosolli is usually served with smetana. Well at least that's how its been at our place :D

YRITETÄÄN SUOMALAISTA JOULURUOKAA, KALJAA, GLÖGIÄ JA NAMEJA

Yoiu have to eat the chocolate first, then the berry mousse with one bite and last eat the waffel.

Lanttulaatikko is the best ever! My mom makes so good lanttulaatikko, cant wait 😍😋

Rosolli is served with some sweet cream😅😂

I've seen rosolli been eaten with a pink cream (I don't know what's in it but it's pink.)

I think lanttulaatikko is kind of everybodys favourite laatikko. Mine also.

porkkanalaatikko (carrot box) is the shit. the king of christmas boxes

Finnish ninja stars are the best. Homemade are the best but an easier option is to buy frozen pastry and the jam they sell specifically for the 'stars', bake them and enjoy.

Try the next Christmas Saarioinen kermainen lanttulaatikko.

Good video cad i like it

Probably not that traditional but I'm eating pig's tongue (porsaan kieli) at Christmas dinner. It's very delicious with horseradish (piparjuuri) cream.

Tip: put the suukko into the freezer. Enjoy cold and lovely, slightly chewy texture.

"I kinda still like my wife." Oh, ammm.. You'd better Mr.! I would love to be a fly on the roof and hear the conversation about that statement when Cat hears of that :D

You should have whipped creme fraiche with rosolli.

The tastes in rosolli ingredients vary wildly. I think apple is required. And yeah, you eat it with other stuff. Complements all kinds of laatikkos nicely (IMO).

I had to stop watching the video just to say I love the way You say glögi in finnish way. Just love it.