Guess who’s coming to dinner? Your family and friends, this holiday season, that’s who. And, for one lucky winner, four of those holiday guests will be sitting on these modern-classic Thonet chairs from Bauhaus2YourHouse. Based on the design from modern classic furniture pioneer Michael Thonet, these streamlined beauties will look just as home alongside a traditional dining set as they do by an Eero Saarinen tulip table.
Chairs like these – with a bentwood frame, a woven cane back and a gingko chocolate faux leather seat — will elevate your Thanksgiving dining room (or heck, any-room) decor, and keep Uncle Bernard from dwelling on a few pesky lumps in the gravy. Okay, maybe not that last part, but they’ll be comfy enough to carry to the living room for some post-meal board games or football-watching, whatever your pleasure. To be entered for a chance to win the set of four Thonet chairs, simply leave us a comment in the field below before 12/11c on Monday, October 24.
This week’s question: What has been your most memorable Thanksgiving (good or bad)? Did you catch the garage on fire with a deep-fryer? Eat Chinese food on the floor of your new house with a few good friends? Make the best cranberry sauce ever? Tell us now.
My most memorable thanksgiving was Grandma's house. A house full of relatives, the kids (me) playing Nintendo and some great food.
Close to 30 people, family and family by choice, at table after table set in a two room row, thankful for a vegan feast (though many weren't vegan), thankful for each other. We're doing it again this year and those faux leather chairs would fit right in!
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Usually I have such a fun time with my 30+ family members for dinner, but one year it was just me, my husband, our young twin sons and his eccentric grandmother (God bless her soul). Good china and crystal, candles, food served in courses. My husband still talks about the Cornish rock game hen with cranberry stuffing. Perhaps it's memorable because it was so different.
With flight delays, I feasted on a turkey sandwich at the airport, as I watched the parade and hours of football on the tv at my gate.
My most memorable thanksgiving was spent with my sister and a frined, we roasted a whole turkey and ate it all up! Just the three of us….
My best Thanksgiving memory is of our group of friends getting together and making thanksgiving dinner with an Indian twist ! lots of laughter, kids running about and yummy food…a memorable Thanksgiving which we hope to repeat this year..
One of my most memorable Thanksgiving is spending it with all of my cousins on the kitchen floor as the "adults" ate in the fancy dining room. You may think we suffered, but it was a blast! :-p
The Thanksgiving I remember best (I guess this is a "bad" one) was the one after my mom passed away. My sister took off for Florida, my dad and last grandparent had passed away three and four years ago, respectively. I was completely on my own, but I decided that I would still have a nice Thanksgiving, set the table with the nicest stuff I had and made it as "real" a Thanksgiving as I could. Fortunately, that didn't include cooking a whole turkey, since we have a local grocery store that tends to cater to single people and I was able to get slices of turkey, etc. You wouldn't think I had much to be thankful for, but despite all the difficulties, I still had a place to live, food on the table and physical blessings of sight, health, etc.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
I fully expect my most memorable thanksgiving to be this year's thanksgiving. My wife is pregnant with our first and it's twins! Two baby boys, named after both of our maternal grand-fathers. My wifes due date is November 27th, but we fully expect the little turkeys to come out of the oven a bit early. Hopefully, Mom will be recovered enough to enjoy a meal with our new family.
Still, I can't imagine that we'll have the energy to visit with family as we normally would. My plan is to buy a turkey pot pie from the local turkey farm and to keep it simple. Blessings of joy and happiness to all. May everyone be thankful with family and humble joy.
Congratulations, and have the happiest Thanksgiving ever!
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday as all the kids and their families would be at our parents. However, the best memory was our first year of this tradition. We ate dinner at midnight because we decided to wait until the turkey was cooked. Good times!
I remember one particularly interesting Thanksgiving. I was about 8 or 9 and my mom had made a wonderful meal, as she does every year. However, my aunt brought over her "famous potato salad," and I should have known disaster was about to strike, My aunt is not necessarily renowned for her ability to keep food fresh, and the potato salad was no exception. I got a stomach ache, but that wasn't the worst of it. My mom made fudge as well, and as a child (well, who are we kidding, even as an adult) I find it nearly impossible to resist the temptation of anything chocolate. I started stuffing my face, and I remember my grandpa telling me that I should slow down. I did not heed the warning.
I ended up face-first in a toilet bowl of the rest of the night. In the background, I still recall hearing Michael Jackson singing on the television. To this day, I associate fudge and Michael Jackson with unsanitary porcelain.
This is a hard question, as I have so many years' worth of Thanksgivings to choose from! xD I guess I would have to say my most memorable one was the year I had to be in charge of all the cooking for my three siblings, my sister-in-law (whose arm was in a cast) and her brother. We were all young adults in our twenties, and it was the first time since our parents passed away that my siblings and I were able to get together for Thanksgiving at our old family home, where my brother and his wife were living. Since my brothers don't cook, my sister-in-law was out of commission, and my sister and brother-in-law were arriving late, I was in charge of kitchen duties. I ended up making my mother's recipe for turkey and stuffing (I don't care what the "experts" say, it is not a Thanksgiving turkey if it is not stuffed, and no one I know has never gotten ill from eating a stuffed turkey!) and also some of my sister-in-law's family favorites. Everything came out perfectly and we all had a great time. This was also the only time over the years that all of us have ever been able to get together for a holiday, so that is what makes this particular Thanksgiving so special!
Being with family and playing touch football and lounging around and playing fun games is the most memorable for me.
It was the Fall of my 5th. year my Uncle came home from the Korean War AND it was Thanksgiving Time. My Dad had fed this Live turkey all yr. then when it was Thanksgiving he hit it over the head and ask us, his family to then eat it for dinner. We weren't THAT hungry!
My most memorable Thanksgiving was the first with my now husband- I was 17 years old. My grandfather was newly diagnosed with Alzheimers and was not with us that Thanksgiving. It was pretty hard on my mom and myself, but my new boyfriend was very supportive. It was bittersweet to continue the traditions that had been set in place with him there, but it was a tradition we happily continue in his memory to this day, 11 years later. It was a very memorable Thanksgiving for me- to be my first year without my grandfather, whom I was very close to, and my first time bringing a boyfriend to Thanksgiving.
Our most memorable Thanksgiving moment was when our yellow lab ate our holiday ham! She just hopped up on the counter and downed the entire ham in what I swear wasjust seconds! We all got a good laugh but then quickly realized no one was going to get to eat that awesome ham!
We had recently moved to our new home and had invited my husband's family. There were about 12 people and it was the first time I had prepared the entire Thanksgiving meal. I had started the coffee maker so we would have fresh coffee with our pumpkin pie. We were in the middle of dinner when I heard a strange sound coming from the kitchen…it was my coffee maker pouring coffee and coffee grounds all over my counter and floor. I had forgotten to empty the basket of coffee grounds from the morning coffee!
One of my best friends from high school is a professional baker, as is her husband, and so we have Fakesgiving, because they have to work the actual holiday. The food is fab, and I always go home with pumpkin chocolate chip bread that makes my life worth living.
The Thanksgiving we had a whole salmon was my most memorable because after dinner we had an earthquake, thus forever linking salmon and earthquakes together in my mind. Thinking of trying the whole salmon/earthquake thing again this year just to tempt the fates. Bwa ha ha ha ha!
And the chairs? Beautiful!
And the stories on this blog? Terrific, just terrific. I enjoy reading them all.
a recent Thanksgiving memory was 2 years ago when I was newly pregnant and going to make the announcement to my parents that night. My Dad was making the gravy and i started to 'test' it. Well i started gulping it down by the spoonful, and my Dad guessed our announcement before the meal was ready
And then i was sick for the rest of the night…. but still a funny memory!
My son was eleven months old and I was expecting my daughter on December 5th. I took on hosting the holiday because the idea of travelling all over to celebrate was just too much. I prepared the meal and all our family members arrived. As my husband started to carve the turkey, I discovered that I was in labor! I did not want to rush to the hospital because my son's delivery took 31 hours and I thought I would be more comfortable at home. Because I was so busy preparing Thanksgiving, I did not notice that it had begun snowing, so, by the time I decided to head out it was a full-on New England blizzard. We could not drive up the hill to the hospital. What should have been a ten minute trip took thirty minutes and I barely made it into a room before my daughter arrived. Both she and I were fine and now we have a Thanksgiving story that gets told (and often embellished) every year.
Most memorable Thanksgiving was probably last year. Not from the meal itself but waiting in line during Black Friday to get a 55" TV. It was crazy, the craziest day ever. People going crazy over every little thing and trust me you don't want to cut in line, be warned! I don't think I would ever do it again.
One year,,I guess I was so exhausted from being up all night cooking and preparing our dinner,,that when it came time to check on the turkey I placed a towel on the opened oven door to move the hot glass baking dish the turkey was cooking in, so as not to cause it to break,,I remember checking it and placing it back into the oven to finish cooking,,and closed the oven door.. Minutes later my nephew comes in the kitchen,,looks in the oven door window and then says to me,,"Hey Auntie, is that towel supposed to be in the oven with the turkey, and is it supposed to be on fire?",,,,,,,,,Yeah, that was a year to remember,,,acting quickly,,,,we didn't have to call the fire department,,,,,it was the best,,,,Thanksgiving our family has had,,,we laughed so hard,,,,can't wait for the next one,,,,every year,,
The most memorable was my daughter's first Thanksgiving! I knew what i truly felt like to be thankful for something!
We'd just moved into a new apartment and sat on the floor together eating delivery pizza. It was delicious! Such a fun memory!
My most memorable Thanksgiving was last year when emotions were as high as they could be because I was going to be moving out of my best friends house and it was going to be our last Thanksgiving together, tear. So we had planned that we were going to cook everything together but things changed and she had to work so I was left cooking everything, all the sides to the turkey!!! And it was my time cooking a Thanksgiving dinner ALONE, I was freaking out. And her entire family was coming for dinner and half of mine so as you can imagine my heart was pounding out of my chest, I wanted everything to be perfect and taste delicious. Well, I pulled it off! Everything was ready on time and the turkey was amazing, (thank you Alton Brown your recipe worked perfectly).
Probably the time I was living overseas and couldn't find a turkey in the market to save my life. I started crying on the way home from the market and realized that I was finally experiencing culture shock, it wasn't just that I was crying over poultry. I ended up roasting a chicken and finding some turkey breasts to cook as well. Then turkeys showed up in the market a month later. In later years when i was living there I was able to find a turkey…. But that first year I made do with what I had and was able to share my beloved holiday with lots of my foreign friends, who really enjoyed it. They loved taking a day just to celebrate thankfulness.
Every thanksgiving my family had dinner at my aunt’s house. Her husband is a chef – so the food is always incredible. After dinner, in true Asian fashion, we sing karaoke. In 2006, my husband stopped singing in the middle of the song he was singing, and got down on one knee and proposed to me. It was great having all my family there to witness it. I will always remember that day!
Years ago My (now ex) husband and I planned a quiet thanksgiving just the two of us. we kept noticing the living room seemed smoky but could not figure out why. much later in the evening, with my husband sleeping on the sofa, I walked into the living room to find flames shooting up between the face of the fireplace and the hearth. The fire dept. quickly got it under control, although one fireman wanted to rip the siding off our house. . Luckily his boss didn't allow that.
That's cute who wrote this, "look whose coming to dinner, your snooty friends and those proper in-laws." Hope you win those four chairs. ; )
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My most memorable Thanksgiving was with my children (then 10, 9, 9 & 4 yrs. old) in Rome, Italy. It was our very first ever as most Asians don't celebrate it with a Turkey, we had our first bite of this big bird! We all dressed up for the occassion and had a picture taken to remember this meaningful event– and that is being Thankful for family & friends & all the bountiful blessings that is bestowed upon our lives…a year at a time!
Our Thanksgiving tradition is actually steak. Not sure why, but since the past couple years have been nice enough to grill out we've capitalized on it and made steak instead of turkey.. Still love those mash potatoes though!
I never have enough chair when I have friends over. I would love to have these chairs to entertain with…They are so beautiful.
My favorite Thanksgiving Day memory, (even though it wasn't funny at the time), has become hilarious now that my sister and I are all grown up and often making our own Turkeys. It was about 11:30'ish am on Thanksgiving Day. Mom was in the kitchen. Dad came in from deer-hunting and surprised Mom as she had the oven rack pulled out with the giant turkey in her biggest roaster pan; and wouldn't you know it, somehow she lost her grip on it, (I'm already laughing), and the giant pan slid off the oven rack onto the floor; where the giant turkey slid across the linoleum. They proceeded to try and pick up the juicy, hot, slippery 25+ lb, mostly-done turkey. It took at least 3 times. She finally got it picked up, she plopped it in the sink, where she rinsed it off, and then she slammed it back into the roaster pan, and back into the oven. Nobody mentioned the floor-turkey; which Dad carved and we ate. This will be our tenth Thanksgiving without Mom, this year; but we are very thankful for all of the memories she gave us; and of course for her teaching us how to make the best turkey ever!
Thanksgiving 2004. My mother had just come home from the hospital, and we all knew any day was going to be her last as her cancer could no longer be controled. My dad and I were beyond tired because no one was getting any sleep, so there was no way anyone was going to do any cooking. But my Dad's boss was really nice and sent us a catered Thanksgiving day meal, which really helped out and at least made it feel a little bit more like a holiday. It was the most memorable Thanksgiving cause it was my mother's last (she died 4 days later), but it is hard to define if it was good or bad, it was not either really……..it is just a sad memory.
I don't think I've ever had a super memorable Thanksgiving! We usually do the same things: eating food, hanging out with family, and watching the parade and dog show.
My most memorable memory is our first Thanksgiving being married. We were able to get both of our families together and had a blast eating at a large table in the living room.
Last year was the most memorable. We camp at a state pro every year in our RV. I had prepared everything ahead of time, except the turkey, which I had ordered to be smoked. My husband brought it out to the campground the day before the big event, and it smelled heavenly. Since space was tight and the temperatures cool, I locked it up in a cooler underneath the RV. Next morning was beautiful, crisp and sunny. After tidying up and getting a fire going in the fire pit, I decided to slice our turkey. I opened the cooler to what can be best described as what a Jiffy Pop popcorn pan looks like when it's exploded!!!! The foil and turkey were in shreds! While looking at the decimated bird, I noticed several greasy footprints around the cooler, on the steps of the RV, they were everywhere. Some raccoon had deftly helped himself to the turkey without disturbing the position of the cooler. (how he unlatched it is still a mystery.). So, in complete defeat, I gathered up the sad remains and carried them to the dumpster. Imagine my surprise when I lifted the lid and found a 25-pound raccoon sleeping off his turkey coma!!!! Argh!!! What else could this varmint do to me? So, after throwing the carcass at the sleeping masked man, who didnt wake up, I had to laugh at the entire debacle and send my husband into the small town next to the park for a Wal-Mart rotisserie chicken. And it was good.
The first time that that my wife and I hosted thanksgiving for our combined families, we were faced with the dilemma of how to keep the respective patriarch's ego in check. Our solution was to divvy up a couple of the "head of household" tasks such as carving the turkey and making the gravy. My old man got the gravy responsibility, and he was determined to awe the in-laws. He bought another turkey to cook at his house just so that he could make stock from it, and arrived at our place with a 3-gallon pot full of liquid gold – actually, he almost arrived with it – he tried to bring it up the stairs while also bringing his dog inside. The dog bolted, yanking his arm, and dumping three gallons of all over our stairs.
Dad yelled at the dog, gather up his pot (leaving the gravy pool), and retreated to his house to make another batch. Dinner was late, but the gravy was well worth it.
Our best Thanksgiving ever was when my daughter had the entire family for dinner in her 100 year-old farmhouse and had cooked everything from scratch. She made her own napkin rings out of pressed leaves, pinecones, cinnamon sticks and twine and she also made the centerpiece for the table. Just beautiful!
3 years ago my mom bought our first house and we ate pb&j sitting on stacks of boxes. it was a great year.
The most memorable Thanksgiving was the year 2002…family, food and much fun! Great memories. : )Family is what really matters!
A time to reflect on all your Blessings for sure!
the bentwood chairs were always comfortable and in our family and they loved them mary
My most memorable Thanksgiving was our last one….a total weather washout prevented us from attending the annual family get together and on the Wednesday just before Thanksgiving so we had to scramble to pull our own big dinner together. It was harried and delicious and very fun!
My most memorable thanksgiving was when I had some international students who live far far away from their family (Mongolia) and came to my small one bedroom apartment to celebrate thanksgiving together. I had bought all the ingredients but then forgot to try out the oven and assumed that it works, at the time I was going to bake my turkey ball, I found out that the oven didn't work. But thankfully my good friend who live not too far from me helped me cook the turkey, brought some breads and cheered the party. It is joyful to see the smile on the students' face as they can have a "family" to celebrate the thanksgiving and won't feel so lonely.
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Thanksgiving 2010 was one of my best. I was off work for 1 week and my family went to the cabin. It was so nice and I got to spend a lot of time with my dog killer which was awesome. The previous years I had to work a lot around the holidays, so it was very nice to have the time off to spend with killer & family.
most memorable was when I got to go to Vegas to meet up with my aunt and grandmother I hadnt seen in 20 years. it was GREAT!