Thanksgiving Photos From MSLO Employees
On the day before Thanksgiving, I wished our employees a very happy holiday and invited those who wished to submit photos of their turkeys. It's always fun to see how others celebrate. Thanks for the pictures!
1 Laura Plimpton - Senior Editor Social Media - I love the classic Turkey 101 recipe. Enshrouding the turkey with layers of cheesecloth and brushing it with melted butter and white wine works magic.
2 Laura Plimpton - Towards the end of roasting, removing the cheesecloth reveals a beautifully browned bird.
3 Laura Plimpton - Our dining table
4 Laura Plimpton - This year, I sewed festive napkins from an autumnal print fabric and a tablecloth from a length of burlap. I also made napkin rings using the selvedge of the burlap.
5 Laura Plimpton - The center of the table was decorated with moss-covered branches, Bradford pear leaves, and Christmas ferns.
6 Laura Plimpton - Great company and great food!
7 Alison Matz - SVP, Publisher Whole Living & Everyday Food
8 Amy Conway - Editor at Large - Our turkey roasted by my mother in law Anne Capeci - Note the Martha By Mail pressed glass turkey compote to the side! We always use it for cranberry relish.
9 Anna Ross - Assistant Photo Research and SIP Photo Editor - My friends David and Kami de Ruig hosted Thanksgiving this year.
10 Anna Ross - Kami made beautiful place settings.
11 Anna Ross - My friend Jon Smith made these amazing place cards.
12 Anna Ross - Kami getting the appetizers ready
13 Anna Ross - Appetizers
14 Anna Ross - Cranberry sauce
15 Anna Ross - More appetizers
16 Anna Ross - Beautiful flower arrangements
17 Anna Ross - We had a feast!
18 Anna Ross - My friends enjoying our meal
19 Anna Ross - Delicious dessert
20 Anna Ross - I loved the decorations.
21 Jack Arenas - Office Services Associate
22 Jack Arenas
23 Jack Arenas
24 Jack Arenas
25 Jack Arenas
26 Karen Martin - Integrated Director-Chicago - From our wonderful Thanksgiving just outside of Lake Tahoe
27 Kristen Lefkus - Editorial Intern Whole Living - We grill the turkey like a rotisserie.
28 Kristen Lefkus - Right off the spit
29 Kristen Lefkus - It's always moist and delicious!
30 Kristina Spade - Advertising Business Associate - Another turkey on a grill!
31 Soo Jee Lee - Our turkey was massaged with herb-butter, rosemary, and garlic and slow-cooked.
32 Emily Eibel - Associate Designer, Crafts - My family has had wild turkeys hanging out around our house in Marlboro Township, Ohio all of November! They even showed up for Thanksgiving!
33 Emily Eibel - Lucky for them most of my family is vegetarian!
34 Kelsey Mirando - Editorial Assistant, Executive - This is a bacon-wrapped turkey that my family friends, brothers Brad and Scott Garrison, prepared for Thanksgiving dinner in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Yummy!
35 Christine Vystrcil - Integrated Sales Director - After Hurricane Sandy knocked out power in my neighborhood, I cooked a full Thanksgiving meal on my gas stove for all of my good neighbors. It was my first Turkey ever!
36 Christine Vystrcil - The yams - The reason I had to serve the turkey in the roasting pan was because gasoline was being rationed and I couldn't get to a kitchenware store to purchase something nicer.
37 Courtney Anderson - Digital Marketing Manager - We brined the turkey with apple juice, bourbon, and brown sugar the night before we cooked it. It was roasted using the cheesecloth method.
38 Courtney Anderson - It was a new recipe this year and it turned out so well.
39 Courtney Anderson - The turkey was served alongside annual favorites like stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and broccoli.
40 Courtney Anderson - My plate
41 MaryRay Lombardo - Weddings Account Manager, Chicago - Frank Lombardo and Chef Ron Krivosik get ready to carve the turkeys at the Breen Family Thanksgiving.
42 MaryRay Lombardo - The Williams-Sonoma turkeys were stuffed, cooked to perfection, and ready to be carved!
43 Karen Schuchardt - SVP Digital Media Sales - prepared by my sister-and-law, Cathy Bossolina. It looked & tasted so delicious!
44 Karen Schuchardt - SVP Digital Media Sales - How I cook from my iPad. I loved the trick from the Martha Bakes video where I learned to wrap the dough around the rolling pin in order to cover the pie. Everyone loved the pie.
45 Karen Schuchardt - Piling on the apples - You’ll have to excuse my appearance in this picture. I woke up at 5:30am to start my baking! Katelynn, my niece from Minnesota, is reading Flat Stanley. As part of a school project, she sent me herself through the mail. I’m taking Flat Katelynn everywhere with me and capturing pictures with her throughout NYC during the holidays.
46 Karen Schuchardt - Pies/Flowers– These pies and the flower arrangement were made by me. This was my first time making Martha’s Mile High Apple Pie. I also made my grandma’s pecan pie & I put my own personal twist on my mom’s pumpkin pie recipe.
47 Iris Elifoglu - Traffic Coordinator - This was my families 20-pound turkey.
48 Ellen Clarke - Associate Product Manager - We had 36 people at our dinner!
49 Ellen Clarke
50 Aaron Stewart - VP, Design - This was my first Thanksgiving meal I cooked!
51 Aaron Stewart - I used the recipe from Turkey 101, basting four layers of cheesecloth with melted butter and white wine.
52 Aaron Stewart - It looked beautiful and tasted amazing!
53 Aaron Stewart - Getting ready to carve
54 Gianni Zanin - Product Designer – Food Prep Dept.
55 Gianni Zanin
56 Gianni Zanin
57 Allie Donnelly - Advertising Sales Coordinator - This is my mom, Mary Beth’s, traditional stuffing. In the bowl behind it are 5 lbs of Brussels sprouts that I shaved with a mandolin!
58 Allie Donnelly - This is my mom's homemade pumpkin and apple pies – both from Martha’s cookbook!
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My goodness, Jack! That is the most beautiful pie! Apple? I can smell it from here!
Mrs Polly Rogers
Posted by: Mrs Polly Rogers | November 28th, 2012 at 1:11 am
Everyone did a wonderful job on their dinners.
Gloria G!!
Posted by: Gloria | November 28th, 2012 at 1:21 am
Oh Martha, how festive! Laura Plimpton, your turkey and napkins were both just beautiful! I think the cheese cloth method makes for the most gorgeous turkey. Thanks for sharing this blog.
Posted by: KLBrown | November 28th, 2012 at 1:51 am
Well done to all of you. Although it's only 11.18 in the morning you made me soooo hungry!!!!! I wish I had one of these turkeys in front of me right now! All I can do is satisfy with my yummy turkey sandwich instead! snif-snif.
Posted by: Despoina DKPDFamily | November 28th, 2012 at 4:30 am
martha i think this idea was fun .. really great idea like your blog.. read it everyday along with msnbc news .. thanks and a merry christmas to you and your beautiful lil gr. babies .. years of appreication .. heres to martha
gail maiers- clarke
harbor springs michigan
Posted by: david clarke | November 28th, 2012 at 7:08 am
I love seeing how others celebrate Thanksgiving! I get so many ideas on how to present the food like in picture #39. Courtney, the serving dishes are so pretty on the side board and the candles and flowers are perfect! So many different ways to cook a turkey, everyone did a great job! I did the bacon wrapped turkey like Kelsea in Pic #34 to rave reviews. Maybe next year I'll try the cheesecloth like so many of you. Emily, how funny wild turkeys were hanging out at your home in Ohio on Thanksgiving, glad you took pictures!
Karen, your pies look so yummy! By the way, my niece from Miami sent us her flat Stanley a couple of years ago to take pictures in front of the Alamo, so much fun!
Posted by: Cindy F | November 28th, 2012 at 7:48 am
These pictures are all what we might expect from your employees, especially the gorgeous looking turkeys. It seemed that Turkey 101 was the favorite way to roast also. I love that Soo Jee Lee’s turkey was ‘massaged’ and then ‘slow-cooked.’ That was cute. Your table was great Laura – I liked your tablecloth and the napkins you made and the blue glasses are stunning. It doesn’t surprise me that you sew and probably as nice as Martha does. These days, I think it’s a matter of finding the time. Thanks for sharing these pictures – I always enjoy peeking into other people’s kitchens! I liked Courtney Anderson’s buffet too – it is how we serve our meals because we usually have a lot of people at the table. Trish
Posted by: Trish | November 28th, 2012 at 8:12 am
Laura's turkey looks wonderful! Thanks for sharing. I think she out cooked her sister this year for sure! Keep up the great stories.
Posted by: Lily Von Schtup | November 28th, 2012 at 8:38 am
Hi Martha, You have the greatest employees at MSLO and it's easy to see what great cooks and table decorators all of these are! Everyone of their turkeys look sooooo delicious and the table settings were beautiful! It was so wonderful to see your sister, Laura, cooking that delicious turkey and her great family sure looked happy to be there! It must have been her husband who took the photos for her-terrific! Everyone else had made such delicious looking meals for their families and friends and their table settings were gorgeous, also! Would have been fun to visit anyone of these great employees and be able to taste their delicious Thanksgiving dinners! Thanks so much for sharing these great photos they gave you! I'm sure you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day with Alexis, Jude, and Truman, also! I always love to see your photos, too! Hope you have another great day! Off to see The Daily Wag about "Some of What We're Thankful For!" More great photos there! Jan
Posted by: Jan Erickson | November 28th, 2012 at 9:30 am
I love Laura Plimpton's old Garland range--I have one of about the same vintage and it is the BEST. Also, the sconces in her dining room look familiar...did her sister give them to her?
Posted by: Joseph Morgan | November 28th, 2012 at 9:30 am
Great to see all the ways of cooking turkey! Laura Plimpton's looked especially good! This year there were only a couple of friends over, but the meal was delicious. I recorded it on my blog: http://www.thedecoratedtree.blogspot.com/2012/11/giving-thanks.html
Posted by: Darryl Moland | November 28th, 2012 at 9:56 am
What!?! 5 lbx brussel sprouts shaved on a madoline? Allie, you win any prize that you want! We happen to be a brussel-sprout-loving family and I sure would love to eat that casserole, make it, not so much. LOL
All turkeys were beautiful. My Grandma used that same piece of cloth for every turkey for years. It resembled a piece of canvas, though. I searched for that cloth when we were cleaning up her house and never found it.
Anyway, thanks for sharing all these great Thanksgiving dinners.
On to Christmas!
Sharon
Posted by: Sharon Weinmann | November 28th, 2012 at 10:28 am
You did a very good job. Turkey looks nice and brown and not to brown. I liked the idea of posting employee photos. Its good to see what goes on behind the scenes.
I hope to see you next Thanksgiving here in Parkman, Ohio to cook next year.
Love Mom
Posted by: Eleanor Vystrcil | November 28th, 2012 at 11:37 am
Wonderful photos. First Thanksgiving after death of our beloved Jack. Tradition must go on and we are ever thankful that he was in our lives..
Posted by: ann | November 28th, 2012 at 12:04 pm
Hello Martha
I loved the pictures. The most beautiful pictures of turkeys I've ever seen. I'm going to try that one covered with bacon on Christmas. Thank you very much.
Posted by: Maria Lúcia | November 28th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Hi Martha,
I wish you would make available a cake dome that would be deep enough for a 4 or 5 layer cake. I just called Macy's and asked them to measure your domes but they told me they didn't have anything to measure with but a 4 layer cake would not fit without squshing the icing. Your cakes are so delicious that they probably don't last long enough to need a dome!
Love your show.
Posted by: Elaine Peterson | November 28th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
very nice photos, table and everything there is in her excellent, hope that very good Thanksgiving Day is enjoyed
kisses
Posted by: Made | November 28th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
I always enjoy the blog entries dedicated to staff holiday pictures. It is so much fun to see how the talented team at MSLO celebrate the holidays away from the office. I've never seen so many pictures of turkeys!! Thanks to everyone for sharing.
Posted by: Whitney | November 29th, 2012 at 9:50 am
My thanksgiving was wonderful with great food and amazing family. I would however love to have had Laura Plimpton table setting. love it:) and Aaron's Turkey wow! that turkey looks (as martha would say) Divine, great job guys.
Posted by: omai | November 29th, 2012 at 11:29 am
Hi, Martha,
Thank you for all the photos, captions, and videos you post for our enjoyment and edification. It is fun to see how others celebrate particularly the first timers. They did wonderfully. I'm glad they are so inspired!
Posted by: Bobbie | November 29th, 2012 at 1:12 pm