Luckily for herThanksgivingspread,Scarlett Johanssonwas able to phone one culinary friend who talked her through a tricky gravy recipe.
“Honestly, I need a full vacation from that Thanksgiving meal. I don’t know about you guys, but … I was struggling hardcore,” theMarriage Storyactress joked. “… It was a lot of people. It was very intense.”
The holiday menu staple that proved most challenging for the movie star was the gravy, which prompted Johansson to have a “full-blown panic attack” while preparing.
“You make all that broth — I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I was stirring this huge witch’s broth, and then it cooks down to like nothing.”
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Referring to her Flay speed dial as the “pretty big trick up her sleeve,” Johansson admitted that he served as a sufficient stand-in therapist, as well, calming her down amid her hectic cooking responsibilities.
“He talked me from like an 11 down to like a four,” she laughed. “… Yeah, it was intense.”
When it was all said and done, Johansson said she couldn’t help but be disappointed in the harsh reality that her 48 hours of cooking resulted in 25 minutes of devouring around the table.”No one was talking, everybody was just eating greedily — all you could hear was, like, chewing and smacking,” she recalled.
As for whether she’d do it all again, she said there’s no avoiding it: “I have to! Thanksgiving comes every year, it’s relentless.”
source: people.com
