How Martha Stewart Is Celebrating Thanksgiving This 12 months

If I needed to identify one individual because the preeminent knowledgeable on vacation internet hosting, it could be Martha Stewart. In any case, whereas she could also be a family identify as we speak, the cookbook writer, tv host, and founding father of the Martha Stewart Residing Omnimedia empire received her begin within the catering enterprise — and her reveals and social media feed have at all times centered on good meals and easy entertaining. 

Fortunately for all of us, Martha Stewart sat down with Meals & Wine to speak about all the things from her recently-revived assortment with JCPenney to how she’s celebrating Thanksgiving this 12 months. (Spoiler alert: there isn’t any turkey concerned!) 

Martha Stewart goes overseas this Thanksgiving

As an alternative of roasting a turkey, Martha Stewart will likely be skipping the massive day completely and hopping on a flight to Italy together with her household. Extra particularly, Stewart plans to go on to Rome, and informed us, “We’re having a bit household tour, the place we will likely be consuming pasta and white truffles.” Whereas I’ve at all times been a fan of massive household meals, even I’ve to confess that jetting off to the Everlasting Metropolis feels like a good way to have a good time.

Though she’s not following custom as strictly in 2024, Stewart nonetheless gave us some perception into the dishes and elements she likes utilizing on her vacation desk.

The 83-year-old entrepreneur identified that she’s already made fairly a couple of Thanksgiving recipes this 12 months whereas engaged on her just lately launched a hundredth cookbook, Martha: The Cookbook: 100 Favourite Recipes, with Classes and Tales from My Kitchen, so she’s not in a rush to spend one other day cooking them. (Among the many e-book’s vacation recipes Stewart famous each the pumpkin pie with a phyllo crust or scalloped potatoes nearly as good choices for Thanksgiving, so it’s value snagging a replica to assist with your individual menu planning.)

Regardless of her travels, she’s nonetheless baking a bevy of pies

In fact Martha Stewart can’t forgo cooking completely, and he or she continues to be celebrating the vacation in her personal method earlier than heading out of city, telling us, “My Thanksgiving this 12 months is principally baking 40 pies for individuals who work for me.” She places collectively an inventory of the pies she seems like baking — this 12 months it’ll be the aforementioned pumpkin phyllo, a chocolate pecan, cranberry, and one undetermined taste — after which individuals can select which one they need. Within the phrases of Stewart, “I make them to order.”

When she is internet hosting a full Thanksgiving dinner, Martha Stewart says she’s a traditionalist. On her desk you’ll often discover cranberry sauce, stuffing (like her basic Fruit and Nut Stuffing — after I talked about it, she mentioned, “oh god, that’s so good”), brussel sprouts, candy potatoes, soup as an appetizer, and turkey. However with regards to the poultry, Stewart spares no expense. 

The turkey is the centerpiece of the desk

She raises her personal turkeys — along with chickens and geese — as a result of a freshly butchered hen tastes so a lot better. And sourcing a superb high quality turkey is necessary to Stewart, as a result of she loves turkey. So whereas those she raised this 12 months is likely to be getting a pardon on Thanksgiving, it’s probably she’ll nonetheless be serving turkey on Christmas.

Considered one of my favourite new vacation ideas that I discovered from Martha Stewart is what she brings when visiting different individuals’s events: a carton of eggs. The dozen she brings are farm contemporary from her personal chickens, however even in the event you simply cease by a farmers’ market and get some good high quality eggs for a number present, it’s a novel merchandise that nearly everybody can use and respect.