Taste: We'll be thankful for your holiday mishaps

A beautiful bird
Roasting a turkey and doing it well is a challenge, but even the occasional cook can do it with knowledge, strategy and the right tools. Here are some tips.

Roasting times
The following roasting times are for unstuffed turkeys cooked at 325 degrees:

Brine your turkey for moist white meat
The age-old problem with cooking a turkey is that the white meat is often dry compared with the moist, tasty dark meat. Thank goodness for gravy.

Good gravy!
There seem to be so many pitfalls to making smooth, robust gravy that many of us have turned to store-bought versions.

dish
explanations from the inside out: yams vs. sweet potatoes

We'll be thankful for your holiday mishaps
Thanksgiving is a special family time. By "special" we mean, of course, weird, comical and often fraught with complications.

Thanksgiving is a special family time. By "special" we mean, of course, weird, comical and often fraught with complications.

We'd like to hear your stories about Thanksgiving foul-ups. Maybe the turkey came out as dry as firewood. Maybe you put the turkey in the oven but forgot to turn the oven on. Maybe we shouldn't have Thanksgiving at your house this year.

Funny is good. Poignant is okay, too. Poetry is not.

Tell your story in 200 words or fewer and send it to carlton@sptimes.com. Put Foul-Ups in the subject line. Or mail it to Foul-Ups, c/o Floridian, the St. Petersburg Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731. Please include your name, phone number and city you live in. The deadline is Thursday.

We'll publish some of your stories on Thanksgiving morning.

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