TV
Sourced directly from Friends to table, Ross’ legendary
sandwich of Thanksgiving leftovers gets an accessible
moist-over courtesy of YouTube chef/filmmaker Andrew Rea
Meet Your
Moistmaker
Ingredients
3 slices hearty white
sandwich bread
Turkey gravy
Roast turkey, sliced
Sage sausage stuffing
Cranberry sauce
1 Lightly toast 3 slices
of your favorite crusty
sandwich bread.
2 Warm the gravy over
a stove top and pour into
a small bowl or curved
plate. Soak 1 piece of
toasted bread in the gravy
for as long as it takes to
reach your preferred
moist...ness.
3 Assemble a triple-
decker sandwich starting
with a layer of turkey, gravy,
stuffing, and cranberry,
followed by a middle layer
of gravy-soaked bread,
and then another helping
of turkey, gravy, stuffing,
and cranberry on top.
4 Transfer to a plate and
serve. (Do not leave unat-
tended in office fridge.)
“The moistmaker, in spite
of its unpleasant name,
is a game changer come
Thanksgiving,” Rea tells EW.
“The gravy-soaked slice
of bread tucked in between
the sandwich’s cornucopia
of contents really helps
it live up to its name. Ross
was justified in his epic
workplace freak-out. Steal
my moistmaker, and we’re
gonna have words.”
Serves: 1
→ Recipe adapted from Binging
With Babish: 100 Recipes
Recreated From Your Favorite
Movies and TV Shows
ENTERTAINING WEEKLY
What TV Gets
Right (and Wrong)
About Fall
BY RUTH KINANE
The Friends recipe you won’t see this month:
→Traditional English trifle with sweet raspberry jam and notes of ground beef
JUST MENTIONING CERTAIN FALL
foods can make you feel all warm
inside: apple cider doughnuts,
pecan pies, pumpkin spice kale
chips (kidding, but sadly they’re
a thing). And as the leaves turn, we
turn to particular portrayals on TV
for similar comfort, cozying up to
perfectly broken-in flannels (see:
Riggins on Friday Night Lights) and
browned-but-never-burnt pies (Twin
Peaks) to deliver those fall feels.
Friends, of course, remains the
paragon for Thanksgiving FOMO,
and Peanuts the only pumpkin-
related content we truly need.
It’s Gilmore Girls that sets the gold
standard for overall autumnal
affection (and lightweight pea-
coats); real small-town harvest
festivals are presumably just as
snug as Stars Hollow’s, and having
personally spent this summer
on the brink of heart failure from
chugging cold brew, I’m as ready
as Lorelai and Rory to dial things
down to just a lukewarm latte
in my unnecessarily gloved palms.
But while I’m grateful to shows
like Happy Endings for flagging some
fall fails (like running out of Hallow-
een candy in the suburbs), TV’s
take on autumn itself can some-
times fall short. My mood plummets
like a dollop of whipped cream in
a PSL with every Hallmark movie’s
unrealistic excursion: Apple-picking
meet-cutes that culminate in the
perfect pie? I’ll get on that as soon
as I’m back from lake rowing with
a CW model. And before you actually
commit to hosting that epic Friends-
giving feast like Monica, ask yourself:
Do you even own napkin rings?
↓The girls Gilmore: fall’s feel-good MVPs
↗ “That sandwich was the
only good thing going on in
my life.” —Ross Geller, 1998
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THE MOISTMAKER SANDWICH: EVAN SUNG;
GILMORE GIRLS
: MITCHELL HADDAD
