MSLO Employees Share Their Thanksgiving Photos
Last Wednesday, I sent a general email to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia employees, extending my very best wishes for a lovely Thanksgiving to all of them and their families. I urged them to take photos of their table settings, their feasts, and their families and to share those photos with me, as I love seeing how others spend the holidays. I was happy that so many responded and I thought it would be nice to share their photos with all of you on this blog.
1 Rebecca Robertson - I was inspired by the April 2008 issue of MSL when I created my moss and mushroom centerpiece!!
12 Blake Ramsey - Every year we go to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade - my family loves it. This was the 85th year that Macy’s has held the parade! We arrive early to take photos while the balloons are still on the ground.
15 Blake Ramsey - After the parade we went to my Aunt and Uncle’s in Brooklyn. We took a walk in Brooklyn Bridge Park before dinner.
16 Blake Ramsey - My Aunt Debbie always cooks incredible turkeys. You can see her dog trying to sneak a taste.
33 Carly Birnbaum - My mom created a 'gratitude tree' using branches my dad gathered. Each family member wrote down what they were thankful for and hung it on the tree. A great new family tradition!
34 Cynthia Augustine - Tori, the family dog, safe and warm by the fire. Tori was just diagnosed with cancer.
36 Meesha Haddad - We celebrated at my parent's vacation home in Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania, and we did a 9-mile hike in Tobyhanna State Park on Friday to work off the bird.
37 Evelyn Battaglia - My son Renzo, 6, helped cut out the paté brisee leaves for the top of the apple-blackberry pie, which was inspired by the Fall Leaves Pie from MSL November 2009 (Pie 1-2-3).
38 Stephen Orr - We had 10 people for Thanksgiving but the highlight of the holiday was a group hike we did to a beautiful waterfall on a cliff high above the Delaware River near my upstate house.
39 Stephen Orr - The trail goes to Jensen Ledges and it is famous in the area, though I hadn't been before - Quite a drop over the waterfall down to the river and sweeping views from New York into Pennsylvania!
40 Jodi Levine - I made Jennifer Aaronson's pumpkin muffin recipe from our Family Blog. It yielded so much batter that I baked some in doughnut pans and added a confectioners sugar glaze. Muffins with dinner and the doughnuts after!
41 Jennifer Schulties - For my husband's birthday, I made the apple pie from Pies & Tarts and I've been asked to bake it for any large gathering. On Thanksgiving, I made two. It always turns out beautifully!
43 Sara Hopper - My brother John took this nice shot of the turkey—my mother and I used Martha's cheesecloth method and it turned out wonderfully brown and delicious.
56 Emily Rodney - It’s always nice to go out east during the fall because the feel of town and our little neighborhood is so different than the summer vibe.
57 Emily Rodney - Usually my mom cooks, but this year I made everything but the turkey, and I was inspired by the November EDF and made mostly everything including the brandy pecan pie, which was a favorite of mine!!
58 Britney Peterson - My roommate Julie and I made a small turkey. It's a little blurry but with all the cooking going on, we forgot to take more photos! Everything was wonderful including the cheese ball recipe from Living 2008.
61 Rachel Tombes - My whole family gathered around the table after Thanksgiving dinner to sing a song one of my aunts re-wrote the words to - A wacky family tradition 🙂
62 Rachel Tombes - The most special part of our Thanksgiving every year is actually the day after Thanksgiving, which we call Cookie Day.
63 Rachel Tombes - My 93 year old Nana sets up shop in my Mom’s kitchen and all of the women in the family spend the day making about 200 Italian Christmas Cookies under Nana’s watchful eye, to send to friends and family for the holidays.
66 Judith Macias - I went upstate to my boyfriend’s house, and together with his family, we cut out leaf shapes to make this gorgeous apple pie!
78 Nicolette Bertholet - My table setting–yes, complete with a Living recipe for farro salad with roasted grapes
80 Agnes Rethy - My 8-year-old, Vivien Lynch, was in charge of the centerpiece (at a relatives house) and decided to make paper flowers out of tissue paper.
83 Agnes Rethy - I hosted the day after Thanksgiving and my table setting for 12 people, on a glass table, was a bit tight, but cozy. Not using a table cloth helped make it feel roomier.
88 Michael McCormick - My partner and I celebrated Thanksgiving with some close friends and their family. We did a mixture of standard turkey-day dishes and new favorites—a great lineup when you are blending traditions.
89 Michael McCormick - And, it certainly helps when you are dining with a professional photographer (Ryan Donnell), who can make everything look like it’s right out of the magazine.
90 Michael McCormick - Salted caramel chocolate cake from the November issue of Living. It was my first time doing caramel, and it came out as decadent and delicious as I had hoped.
91 Ashlee Romain - Our dinner table topped with homemade stuffing, broccoli, baked mac-and-cheese, roasted red potatoes, turkey, sliced sweet potatoes, cranberry, filet mignon, and avocado salad
92 Ashley Romain - The dessert table with pecan pie, strawberry cheesecake, bundt cake, and assorted chocolates
93 Nora Singley - My twin niece and nephew, Charlotte and Oliver, in Long Beach, CA. We baked Thomas' Pumpkin Tart with streusel topping. Needless to say, they were pretty excited - an excellent first memory of pumpkin pie!
102 Olivia Schneider - It’s become a tradition for me to choose from my mother’s fine china, linens, and ornate serving platters and decorate the table as beautifully as I can.
103 Olivia Schneider - The China I chose this year was one of my mother’s set of Limoges and one I’m quite fond of.
104 Olivia Schneider - Our feast consisted of turkey; caramelized string beans with dill (my mother’s specialty); yams layered with brown sugar, cinnamon, butter and Granny Smith apples; cranberry sauce with orange zest;
105 Olivia Schneider - garlic mashed potatoes; and stuffing with cranberries, chopped Granny Smith apples, chestnuts, white bread, sautéed Vidalia onions and celery, fresh dill, eggs, and poultry seasoning.
110 Kathy Staib - How funny is this – it reminded me of the classic movie, “A Christmas Story”!! The dogs were circling!
117 Eric Pike - Every other year my entire family gets together. This year we had a surprising change of tradition, when my younger sister Amy decided to visit the city with her husband Peter, and two girls Sophia and Serena to see the parade.
124 Eric Pike - Between dinner and dessert we took a walk along the Hudson, up to Perry Street and then meandered back thru the west village. It was lovely to experience the city when it was so peaceful and empty.
125 Jackie Noble - My aunt and uncle's Hawaiin Thanksgiving (Kona). She always does beautiful settings.
126 Jackie Noble - Branch from "Autograph Tree" (Hawaiian Clusia Rosea)...Welcome to a Hawaiian Thanksgiving
127 Jackie Noble - Unveiling the Opakapaka (Hawaiian Pink Snapper) bbq’d in Ti Leaves by Jeff Grim. Seasoned with ginger, olive oil, hoisin sauce, garlic...stuffed with smoked Kailua pork.
128 Jackie Noble - Hawaiian Thanksgiving Centerpiece with Ostrich Plume (Tahitian Red Ginger) and Crinum Asiaticum (Spider Lily) made by Jane Saltvold.
129 Kevin Sharkey - I hosted Thanksgiving at my apartment. Pierre Schaedelin cooked and Martha attended.