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Giada De Laurentiis celebrated Thanksgiving with her daughter Jade
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The celebrity chef shared a behind-the-scenes clip of the mother-daughter duo cooking several dishes
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Last year, the chef traveled to Tokyo and Kyoto for the holiday
Giada De Laurentiis is full of gratitude this year.
The Super-Italian cookbook author and her 17-year-old daughter, Jade, celebrated Thanksgiving together, whipping up a delicious meal side by side.
In an Instagram post shared on Thursday, Nov. 27, the duo is seen cooking multiple pasta dishes, while other clips show Giada prepping Brussels sprouts and turkey breasts.
“A few scenes from prep today w/ my girl…. Happy Thanksgiving to you all 🦃🍂🤎,” the former Food Network star wrote in the caption.
She added, “Wishing everyone a safe & delicious holiday 🤎”
The 55-year-old is back to her typical Thanksgiving hosting gig after she went to Japan for Thanksgiving last year. Giada, Jade — who the celebrity chef shares with her ex-husband Todd Thompson — and Giada’s boyfriend Shane Farley traveled to Tokyo and Kyoto in a trip that was “five years” in the making.
“My family’s like, ‘What? You can’t leave,’ because I’m usually the cook at Thanksgiving, so I think they’re freaking out a little bit,” she joked with PEOPLE at the time.
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Giada and Jade in 2025
Previously, Giada dished that her strategy for Thanksgiving is to assign out specific tasks to her family members. For example, back in 2021, she asked Eloisa to bake a cheesecake, she told PEOPLE at the time: “I just give her the recipe, and I tell her what to make. She loves doing that, so I sort of empower her and her gift.” Her brother Igor, who is less experienced in the kitchen, was assigned a “simple buttermilk cornbread” recipe.
While it is unclear which relatives handled which dishes this year, one thing is for sure: Giada is treasuring her time with family.
Earlier this year, Giada spoke to PEOPLE about not taking her bonding with the high school senior for granted, talking about how having time together is “one of the best gifts, especially as we entered the last year of her living at home and all of the mixed emotions I have behind that.” “I’m super excited for her to fly and find herself and be who she wants to be, but at the same time, it’s incredibly sad. I’m gonna miss her terribly,” she said of when she goes to college in fall 2026.
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