Update: Congratulations to Lillian, whose favorite Thanksgiving traditions include chocolate truffle tart and apple-cranberry crostata. Yum! Come back the first Friday of each month for a new giveaway.
The start of November marks the beginning of the hectic holiday season. Thanksgiving will be here in the blink of an eye, and in another blink, it will be Christmas and then a whole new year. Whether you’re hosting Thanksgiving for 20 or an intimate Christmas brunch, this month’s giveaway — a stylish stacking dish from Layla Grace — will help you serve food like a pro.
A modern approach to the Victorian compote, this footed bowl is a versatile and stylish statement piece. Stack the three footed bowls to add dramatic height to your buffet table, or use them individually for side dishes or salads. Our lucky winner will get one of each size — small, medium and large.
To enter for a chance to win, just answer this month’s question in the comments below: What are your Thanksgiving traditions? A favorite holiday tune? A memorable recipe? Tell us about it.
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During thanksgiving meal, we go around the table and each say one thing we are thankful for.
My family spend Thanksgiving day togather and then next day setting up and decorating the tree. Later we set out snacks and watch Christmas movies.
We like spending time with family, but not to much..
Turkey stuffing from scratch the way my Mom and Grandma made it. Peanut butter or cream cheese stuffed into the leftover celery!
Thanksgiving time starts the Seasons Celebration for my family. When my mother passed away in 1998 from Breast Cancer, I have continued to carry on the family dinners. I enjoy every moment of it, and also realizing how much it had meant to my mother. Setting my table with mother's Tira Dishes helps keep that visual of her right with us. It has always been our family's tradition to gather around the table before we eat. We have prayer giving thanks, and we each take turns expressing what we are thankful for. It's a very touching moment. While we are passing the food around the table, I turn on one of family's favorite tune, "There's a family Bible on the table." Our meal would not be complete without serving a piece of Lemon Meringue Pie, with mile high meringue. Lemon Pie; 3 egg yolks- 1 1/2 C. Sugar- 1/3 C. Cornstarch (Mix together and set aside). In a Saucepan mix the following ingredients; 1 1/2 C. Water, 3 T. Butter, 2 t. grated Lemon Peel, 1/2 C. Lemon Juice, 2 drops of yellow food coloring. Bring to boil, and slowly add the egg mixture. SLOWLY, you don't want the eggs to cook. Boil again and place into a pre-baked pie shell. Whip up the Meringue as follows; 5 Egg whites, 1/4 t. Cream of Tartar, 6 T. Sugar, 1/2 t. vanilla, 2T. Grated Lemon Peel. Whip until stiff peaks, and spread on top of the pie sealing the edges to the pie crust. Place in the oven to brown the meringue. 350 degrees for about 10-15 min. Keep an eye on it, as it will brown quickly. After a meal like that, we all seem to find a place to sit and crash. lol Just the way Mom would want it. Our hearts are filled with Love, Our bellies are full with food, and Our family gathered around the table once again, and displaying "Our Family Bible". May you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family as I will with mine. God Bless.
We always put our Christmas tree up a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving. We love the holidays and want to enjoy it for as long as possible. It's nice to have the house decorated before everyone comes over for Thanksgiving dinner….it really sets the holiday spirit !!
Hosting Thanksgiving dinner for my family and in-laws. We are blessed that two families have truly become one.
Our family tradition is a beautiful thanksgiving prayer where each one of our family members (30+) has to say what they are thankful for.
Always getting together with close and extended family to spend time together after being apart throughout the year!
I love going up to New hampshire to my brother's house and seeing what his special stuffing recipe is every year, and bringing the pies and desserts; then hearing what all the nephews and nieces have been up to, and seeing how the my great nephew reacts to all the decorations and holiday fun. It gets better every year.
We love our lefse and krumkaka. Both Norwegian.
We started making a spicy corn soufflé a few years ago and now it's one of the most popular dishes on the table.
We wake up early, cook together all day, listening to old classic country tunes, with football on in the background. We would surely use that beautiful serving dish either in the morning with our breakfast (save counter space) and on the table with dinner.
we always have a chicken and a turkey since some family members don't handle turkey well. and the stuffing is always done inside the bird. so many good times and stories have come from fixing thanksgiving dinner with my mom. the from scratch potatoes and pan dripping gravy to fresh cranberry relish and green beans with ham.
Our very small family gathers with the traditional turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy and a table full of wonderful food. We only have creamed pearl onions on Thanksgiving and we all look forward to my mom's special recipe. Dessert is a pumpkin pie and moms favorite, Hershey Bar Pie. For several years, Thanksgiving was a sad time as it was the day my father, grandfather and cousin passed away (all different years.) We now enjoy talking about our wonderful memories with them and we laugh and sometimes shed a tear. We then adjourn to living room where everyone sits down with a piece of paper and writes down their Christmas wishes. I am blessed.
We always have all the traditional food but someone fixes shrimp dressing. Then football and watch all the men fall asleep!.
Attending the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving day game
Turkey, spinach gratin, football. Three things that happen every year, no matter what.
we fill out a piece of paper saying what we are gratefull for,eat a great dinner and a nap
A traditional family southern style dinner with all the trimmings Thanksgiving afternoon starts or holiday season. Our Christmas tree goes up and is decorated Christmas Eve. The children wear their new holiday pajamas while the so called grown ups try to outdo each other with the most outlandish decorated sweaters and vests. We attend the candlelight church service where the gathered family confirms we are truly related because no one can carry a tune. The holiday ends on New Year's Eve with taking down the tree and storing the decorations.
Homemade Carrott Cake….along with the other goodies….gathering of friends and family….
We always goto my grandmothers house and have a wonderful feast all at the same table. We then play afterwards, board games or just card games!!! So much fun!!!
Right now, living in Brasil, our favorite recipe is the technique for cooking the perfect churrasco…
Thanksgiving has been anything but traditional in my modern family! But the tradition was strong as a child growing up in a big family in Birmingham, Alabama. My favorite things were my grandmother's candied sweet potatoes, which no one has ever been able to duplicate, and my father's oyster stuffing. Oh, my!
Thanksgiving is the start of my absolute favorite time of the year. Dinner with the entire family followed by a couple hours of sleep before heading out to brave the crowds for Black Friday shopping. It's an extremely chaotic weekend, but I love it! Time to begin playing all my favorite Christmas music over and over and over again! And putting up the Christmas tree and decorating every room! If there's time, I will begin baking my cookies.
We always go to my mother in laws for the holidays!! It's so great since all of the family gets together and we all bring a covered dish. My mother in law roasts a turkey and bakes a ham. My husband makes his grandmothers pumpkin pie recipe, which has been passed down three generations now!!
Although many traditions have had to be either eliminated or put on hold due to illness, family deaths, etc., we still have a few no matter what. The MACY"S CHRISTMAS PARADE & Football games are at the top with plenty of yummy smells from the kitchen. It could be an organic turkey baking or maybe even a honey-ham. If those smells don't get to you the baked sweet potato's & pumpkin pie will. Cooking through out the day will guarantee a home full of wonderful aromas & smells. Add in some friends & family and BAM – You have a WONDERFUL HOLIDAY!
Oh yes, I forgot. Every year I have a "Ladies Christmas Dinner" for a group of my friends. I work days ahead preparing everything from scratch. A home-made creamy carrot soup, a gourmet salad, garlic shrimp & scallop over pasta, warm crusty french bread and a yummy desert always delish. Frequently serving a warm baked item under a cold scoop of ice cream, drizzled with chocolate fudge, fresh wipped cream and topped with a strawberry or fresh raspberries.
We just like to sit around and tell stories all day, in-between the eating, of course.
Our tradition started the year A Christmas Carol with George C Scott, first aired on TV. That year there was a great discussion on who played the best Scrooge. Then that evening we all sat down with our father and watched it. This was very strange for us as we were not normally tv watchers. Well we all loved it. It gave us a warm holiday feeling inside. Since then We have always watched it in Thanksgiving. A great way to start off the holiday season.
Love Thanksgiving, favorite Holiday–always at home
-usually extended family-everyone chips in:)
We spend the day visitng with family, watching football, and when we gather for the Thanskgiving meal, everyone tells what they are most thankful for before we say prayers for the meal.
Remembering that Jesus is the reason for the season and of course my family, will be missing my daughter this year as her husband is in the Military and they are in Germany. I am very thankful that I will be with my son and his family.
I enjoy family, good food, and football on Thanksgiving Day. My family always comes together to share those same old stories that seem to get funnier each year!
We have Thanksgiving Dinner at my house with all the family,since my 93 year old Mother cannot host it
at hers. We have a wonderful time,just being with everyone and catching up on the latest news.
We are starting a new Turkey day tradition… going to my sister's house! For the past 20 years, we've hosted dinner at our house and invited fellow military friends over for a day of food, football, and fun. But now that hubby has retired, and we've moved back home, we are going to my sister's house.
I cook like a fiend for days leading up to Thanksgiving. We do a major clean and then its time to eat. Our family favorite is "Baked Mashed Potatoes"-they are dreamy. Afterwards, those interested in football enjoy the game and the rest of us plan our Black Friday shopping strategy.
Our 'new' Thankgiving tradition is to fry a turkey. (outside) Moving to FL over 10 years ago, we thought we'd give this method a try, like many people in the South do. It seemed so odd at first, but since our family loved the results, we've continued this method every year. We also put up our Christmas tree over Thanksgiving weekend.
I cannot believe we are into the holidays already-what a fast year:)__Up here in Central NY it is already cold & yes, we are seeing snow! So Thanksgiving is the beginning of bringing out the Christmas music & we slowly start decorating. I mainly start with nature type decorations like white pine on the stairs railing with little white lights:) I also have a nature tree decorated with animals& things from nature also with little white lights. This tree stays up from Nov. to around the end of Feb. It gets us through the snowy months here (of course, that goes to April here)!
I make an orange cranberry nut bread recipe handed down from Fannie Farmer:) that I am not allowed to come to the table without:) I wish everyone a very thankful and wonderful Thanksgiving our thoughts & prayers will be with all that are in need and are suffering during this season and all year.
This is a great serving dish. I like it because each tier is different!!! Yeah for mis-matching to add interest! I also love the nod to the old, I think it's milk glass look, and the contemporary mis-match styling in crisp white! Love it! I have white dishes and bright green dishes that I put together, how perfect! Love HGTV!
My Aunt Becky burned the rolls years and years ago. I was probably a pre-teen (27, now). The house filled with smoke when she opened the oven to find black rolls far past their doneness! We opened windows and doors and turned the fans on. The smoke alarm was going off — truly seemed like a scene from a bad holiday movie. The rolls were not fit for human consumption, so in the garbage they went. No rolls for us that year! Ever since then, my aunt has not been allowed near the rolls for Thanksgiving. We give her heck each and every year without showing any sort of sympathy. She takes it like a champ and we all have a good laugh. We even tease the person who is in charge of the rolls for that particular Thanksgiving — "Better check on the rolls!" It wouldn't be Thanksgiving for my crazy family if someone (who am I kidding, all of us) didn't joke about the roll catastrophe all those years ago!