[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by Snapper33

It's myself, wife, daughter on Thanksgiving. This year we had a three day tapas theme.

Thanksgiving tapas observations and musings. First, we did not experience the usual Thanksgiving meal feelings of, "Oh, man, I ate too much", stuffed feeling. Tapas are small. Intimate. We found that none of the tapas took more than :30 minutes to prepare. We spread the plates over 3-4 hour intervals. During the intermissions we went for walks, and sat on our dock and decks overlooking the lake. We discussed topics of importance relating to philosophy, anthropology, politics, family, travel, art, music, literature, and spirituality. We enjoyed world-class libations and music. We took naps. We bought and installed a Christmas tree. We worked on college application essays with our daughter. We prayed together, reflected and planned. We embraced tapas and its lifestyle of taking time to enjoy time. It was three days of de-shackling the trappings of tradition and enjoying each other with time returned to us by breaking away from the "traditional" Thanksgiving kitchen. We highly recommend this.

Example dish: chorizo and toast with tomato/onion salad

I vote you win. HATE turkey, and typically eat very little of it. I like your theme as well.