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well hello guys I'm coming to you from
2019 a day before 2020 New Year's Eve
and I know you guys will probably be
watching this like a month or two into
2020 because it has taken such a long
time to edit all of the content that I
shot in Russia but nevertheless I really
wanted to make this particular vlog of
how Ukrainians celebrate New Year's
because it's probably been over a decade
since I have spent Christmas and New
Year's with my family here in Ukraine
definitely the biggest holiday of the
year you could say and most families
will get together put on a big spread
and then because my family lives
downtown we come down to the like main
square and celebrate with the masses
think it's going to be an amazing day
and I'm so excited
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once you start walking down this main
sort of Boulevard they have so much food
here and I've actually shocked that it's
like legit meals not you know like
hotdogs or just french fries like they
got actual shush links they got
complicated salad they got corn on the
cob so they are really bringing their
best a game here for like food stalls
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so I just ended up getting a mulled wine
which cost sixty grievance which if the
canadian dollars about eighteen three
dollars 350 about 250 american which if
you think about it for actual wine
that's pretty cheap I remember when I
went to Toronto's Christmas market they
were selling mulled wine and I believe
it was like ten dollars a pop so pretty
big difference
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so me and my family actually started
cooking yesterday for today's meal
because there are just so many dishes
that we are having today and everything
is from scratch like there is no
convenience food at our table especially
for New Year's so let me actually insert
a clip of what we did last night
alright guys so this is the night before
New Year's and what we have right here
is Buju Nina which is a type of pork and
this has been marinating for a couple of
days now and we are going to we just put
al masud on a bit of a messy but also
that is off so this so we're gonna put
this in the slow cooker overnight and
it's going to like steam it we're just
putting some oil in there into the
bottom so it gets nice and glazed yet
the butcher a blue diameter love will go
do stuck the cordon mm-hmm there goes
alright and the next thing that we are
prepping is áliveá which is probably the
most famous russian salad and it's
especially always made on New Year's so
you do have to cook the vegetables
before hands the potatoes and carrots
have been boiled for a couple of hours
so that we can now slice them and then
have them very finely diced in the nicer
Dicer and then there is also ham and
eggs that goes into it as well and also
onion it is delicious back in the day
you had to like slice it by hand but
things like that make it way faster to
make something like Olivia or vinegar
deaath which is also a really popular
Russian salad alright guys so as you can
see we have a massive massive tub of
Olivia probably enough to feed an army
but since we are the night before we're
actually not going to put the final
touch of literally a tub of mayonnaise
in here because it is going to taste
better if we do it right before we eat
but as you guys can see everything is
really finely chopped that nicer dice or
makes things so much easier because
doing it by
and takes forever and I don't know if I
mentioned before but you also add peas
and pickles to it as well I'm actually
gonna try and put the recipes in the
description for you guys in English if
you're interested in making any of these
dishes because they are delicious
alright guys so I am back home now and
we are going to continue cooking we're
making a sort of pie different than pita
shaky but we're making it with kind of a
salmon and rice sort of filling so this
is a product that I have never seen
before it says
Fache lust so silly so it's a sort of
mixture of salmon in here that we are
then going to put with some rice and
then some onions that we put over the
stove and then put it inside this pie
sort of dough mm-hmm
so now we are going to be putting the
meat mixture on to the dough and spread
it out evenly so overall this is going
to be an open-faced sort of pie but we
are just gonna put the remaining dough
in some kind of pretty patterns so to
say to kind of close up the edges of the
pie kind of just give it a good glaze on
top before it goes into the oven we're
just going to put that beat egg on top
of everything the thing that we're going
to be making today is a Caesar salad and
what I will say is that here in Ukraine
and in Russia because I tried Caesar
salad there too they make it in a
totally different way than we make in
the West so instead of lettuce they're
actually using a sort of cabbage from
China this is a pecking sort of cabbage
for Fisher in my job too
maybe Caesar salad and as you can see
there actually is some similarities to
lettuce it's just a lot more dense and I
think it's got this like crunch a sort
of technique this block of cheese is as
big as my head and I'm going to grate it
right into the lettuce and this cheese
you probably had in the Soviet Union
because this was just called
but it's nice you soon so something
you're not going to find in Canada all
right so now that we have put in three
thousand calories of cheese in here
we're gonna put in some corn just some
canned corn so we've got a full tub and
we still have so much lettuce but we're
just putting it in like a big pan mix it
all up with mayonnaise right before we
sent of it and some chicken as well and
then I'll be good to go
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alright guys so here is the final
product how amazing does all of this
look this is definitely a classic you
know Ukranian Eastern European sort of
New Year's table we've got some absolute
classics as I mentioned before this is
my favorite cake it's called Keef ski
thought I'll show you the inside once we
cut into it over here we have some
caviar which is of course something that
most families love to have on special
occasions like New Year's
the most common kind is usually the red
caviar but because it is New Year's we
got some black as well have a big plate
of fruit we have the lovely salmon pie
that we were making earlier it's all
puffed up and has a really flaky crust
we've got a whole olive tray with some
hot peppers mixed in there as well
we've got my food that I could basically
live on forever which has mashed
potatoes we've got to the very Ukrainian
it sort of made a Caesar salad which is
also delicious then of course the
absolute must at every table it is
Olivia and this dish you guys may have
seen when I was in Russia only a very
huge huge huge plate of it which is
called silica but Shuba which is herring
fish underneath a coat of beets and
mayonnaise very popular salad over here
we have our meats which is the blue
Janina the pork that we had made last
night alongside kind of some salami
which is also really popular in New
Year's and then right at the end of the
table is the one dish that I don't think
I'll be trying which is holid yets which
is the jellied chicken fat but
Ukrainians love it so that's why it's on
the table but you guys how incredible is
all of this
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uh-huh uh-huh
[Laughter]
kuroh say upon the revolution in Syria
snow
morado
but dear Schubert amazing research in a
patrol car watching chest that are good
in my darkest of the coaches wet at
Cornish people not watching the car wash
it Viet Happy New Year you're on my
youtube channel and Latifah direct
that's my favorite picture that he took
on the photo shoot on the roof that's
such a good picture I love it I will
have my morning coffee from this month
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you
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alright guys it is what time is it is
3:20
it is 3:20 a.m. right now and I got up
super early today so I'm pretty tired
but excited that we are now in 2020 I
really have an awesome feeling about
this year for me personally and for
Humanity I feel like we're actually
moving in a better direction things can
only go up from here
so I really want to wish you guys the
most spectacular 2020 may all your
dreams and wishes come true and I hope
you guys do have the most spectacular
year thank you so much for all your
support with this channel I love you so
much
and keeping your own kind of beautiful
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