About once a year, I feast on _____
There are foods that may be seasonal, eaten at a special event, restaurant or eating a certain food only once a year satisfies that craving.
A few of mine:
mincemeat pie at Thanksgiving
kettle corn at the local Johnny Appleseed festival
a hot cross bun at Easter
a pomegranate in the Fall
my best friend's sloppy joes
What are your "sometimes foods"?
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25 Comments:
Alaskan King Crab Legs
coolname at 6:29PM on 09/16/07
When we lived in Miami, I always made strawberry shortcake in January...that's when local strawberries were ripe and delicious. My cake was not "shortcake" it was two 9"inch cakes sliced horizontally (making 4 layers) I cooked 1/2 the berries with a little sugar and sliced the rest on each slice. "Iced" with fresh whipped cream. Delicious!!!!
elaine at 7:53PM on 09/16/07
I have a problem and what was once a limited affair has turned rapidly into an annual and sometimes bi-annual event and I feast off of The Trader Joe's Frozen Food Aisle in Woodmere. (It's a solid two hours I tell ya) Really it has everything I need. Carbs and proteins in the forms of rice bowls and noodles. Fruits? Spade of it, all covered in chocolate of course but that just leads me into my next point...antioxidants and flavinols! Then there is the good old stock of pizza and cheesecake to keep my pie quota high for months to come. Then for desert...yes on top of (pumpkin!) cheesecake (that's breakfast, you crazy people) They keep the bags of mini stroopwafels---the true afternoon delight---conveniently above the frozen fruits, which I guess can be used to make smoothies or something healthy like that.
Ah...I
Overworked Barista at 8:45PM on 09/16/07
Hot cross buns at easter. Mince pie for my father at thanksgiving.
A whole tray of cookies I only make at christmas. Struffoli at Christmas.
Ricotta cheesecake at easter. Coconut cake at easter.
A NY style cheesecake at Christmas.
JerzeeTomato at 1:51AM on 09/17/07
Some of my favourite foods are highly seasonal. Samphire is only in season briefly during the summer, and I look forward all year to seeing it in the fishmongers. Also cloudberries (multer), which have such a brief season - sometimes you can get them frozen, but it's not the same.
Otherwise, I don't really have yearly food traditions, but my partner annually craves Norwegian Christmas food: lutfisk, reindeer and pinnekjøtt.
caley at 7:46AM on 09/17/07
Soft shell crabs in season
stuffing at Thanksgiving
candy corn at Halloween
Jersey tomatoes in season
Matzo on Passover
champagne on New Year's eve
my sister-in-laws cookies at Christmas
home made baked beans during the summer
Mich23 at 9:21AM on 09/17/07
once a year i have to have a slaw dog. hot mustard slaw on a charbroiled hot dog. don't like hot dogs normally, but around the 4th of July I crave one! of course the hot mustard slaw I could eat 365 days a year!
huney_bumper at 9:31AM on 09/17/07
I love eggnog around the holidays, but rarely want it any other time of the year.
When you go to a sports event, any particular food eaten? Like once a year going to a baseball game, tennis match or football game?
JEP at 9:59AM on 09/17/07
Taco Bell. I crave it about once a year, gorge on it, then regret it. Ahhh... fast food.
erelmartin at 10:09AM on 09/17/07
Deep-fried chicken livers.
grampart at 10:13AM on 09/17/07
Coolname beat me: Alaskan king crab legs with drawn butter.
hatlady at 11:02AM on 09/17/07
My dad's Tom and Jerrys, which consist of whipped egg whites, sugar, rum and nutmeg (and the rest of the ingredients I forgot). The batter is put in hot water in a mug with extra rum, then it's stirred, and nutmeg shaken on top. Mmmmm. Keeps you warm and cozy while watching a Christmas movie. I agree with the eggnog. Gotta have it. I also like eggnog lattes and eggnog chai.
I used to eat lots of Christmas cookies every year, but it's been less and less as people are trying to stay healthy and lose weight.
Also, all things pumpkin in the fall including breads, cheesecakes and mochas.
I usually make a big pot of chili once or twice in the winter, as I am the only one who eats it, and I freeze the leftovers.
misseditor at 12:40PM on 09/17/07
egg nog, stuffing, pumpkin soufflé
cristi at 2:46PM on 09/17/07
Girl Scout cookies----the Thin Mints or Samoas :)
When the scouts or other groups are selling for "fund-raisers", do you buy these yearly products---like popcorn or candy bars?
JEP at 3:14PM on 09/17/07
Once a year I "feast" on Thanksgiving type foods - turkey, stuffing, gravy, etc.
I put "feast" in quotes because it's more like choke down. Anyone else out there who HATES Thanksgiving eats?? Most people leave the meal stuffed; I leave it STARVING.
ceforrester at 3:48PM on 09/17/07
I have to admit that once a year, at the state fair, I gorge myself on (non-buttered) roasted ears of corn. I could eat my weight in them, if I had the time and money. I don't know what it is about them, but the best ones often have burn marks on places. A true sign that they are roasted over on open flame!
Traveller at 5:19PM on 09/17/07
I have a mango for breakfast daily in summer
choc_puddin at 5:49PM on 09/17/07
About once a year (sometimes for New Years), my husband will spend days, days, days, on an out-of-this-world cassoulet. Heaven. But then we don't really feel like eating again. For days.
Dee at 6:54PM on 09/17/07
Girl Scout cookies are about the only buy-this-so-we-can-raise-$$$ I buy; most of the others are pretty awful. Love Thansgiving foods if I'm doing the cooking. And I guess blackberry cobbler is my gotta-have-it yearly food.
lemons at 10:24PM on 09/17/07
ceforrester, I too hate Thanksgiving food! All of the components are individually odious, and when they are combined there is some kind of reverse alchemy in which the whole is even less than the sum of its parts!
Plus, in my opinion (and I realise this is an inflamitory statement), no matter how moist it is or whether it's been brined, turkey tastes the way wet dog smells.
caley at 2:44AM on 09/18/07
caley - finally..someone understands my suffering! :-) i've never met anyone else who shares the same distaste for thanksgiving. sometimes my family is gracious enough to let me do my own thing and i'll make myself a simple shrimp cocktail and then have a few brussel sprouts and a piece of cornbread. most of the time though i look around at the food, smell it and then have lost all appetite anyway.
ceforrester at 9:38AM on 09/18/07
Peaches and tomatoes.
Christina at 1:14PM on 09/18/07
Turkey
paris221966 at 10:14PM on 09/18/07
Fresh rhubarb is another one of my yearly-liked foods.
JEP at 6:00AM on 09/19/07
it's a tradition in this part of the south to make hog head cheese when the weather begins to cool. i prepare it in december, some folks make it using boston butt but i use real hog heads that i purchase from a local butcher. if you're even slightly sensitive don't try this.........some folks can't deal with a hog staring back at you from a large pot of boiling water.
olddad at 7:51PM on 09/19/07