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Foods you make once a year

Rambling Ann

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I want to invite the neighbors over sometime soon. I was thinking I might make my famous brie-mushroom-port soup (really from a Williams-Sonoma cookbook). It's so rich, I only dare make it once a year. Same with baked beans and steamed bread, posole, my cranberry tart, and so on. These aren't holiday foods, they just have a short season in my mental rotation when I think of them even though I could make them almost any time. What are you cooking now?

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elpgal

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Your list sounds intriguing, I have never eaten any of these things. My make once a year includes things like layered pilafs and tarte soleil. I only make it for the holiday potlucks.

anne

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I have a stuffing (cranberry, sage and proscuitto) that I only make at Christmas. I love the sound of your soup!

Anonymous

Usually turkey with dressing, gravy, cranberries, etc is a once a year dinner for me to cook. Italian cream cake and red velvet cake are others.

Rambling Ann

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I just remembered/reread another: citrus terrine. It's grapefruit and orange segments in a gelatin made from the juices. Sounds weird, incredibly refreshing and I seem only to make it once a year. (Sarah Leah Chase's Cold-Weather Cooking).

Elpgal - Tarte soleil?
Joy - want to know more about Italian cream cake

rachylou

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Cookies - alfajores. I have several things I only make every coupla year’s too... cherry tarts, burgundy stew, mini beef wellingtons...

Sisi

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Just a suggestion, before embarking into complicated dishes, ask your neighbours what they like and do not like ... Family and friends still laugh thinking of the time I was invited to dinner by a dear lady I know. She promised me a "specialty" of hers. When I arrived I found out that it was pumpkin dumplings. Well, I eat everything, the only thing that I dislike is pumpkin. Of course I ate them and pretended that I liked them a lot ...

Anonymous

Check out the pumpkin pie recipe I posted. We made it this year for the first time, but decided it's going to be an annual thing. It's that delicious.

JAileen

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I make caramel corn at Christmas time. It's really bad for you, but people love it anyway.

Sara L.

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I only bake bizcochitos (a cookie made with anise) at Christmas time. There's no reason I couldn't make them at other times of the year and I probably should since they're my kids' favorite cookie. I associate posole with winter, not just Xmas, so I'll usually make it several times during the winter months. I only make pumpkin pie and cranberries at Thanksgiving. We do a family Christmas brunch with several dishes that are only served that one time - scotch eggs and cherry rose rolls.

Angie

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I make melktert once a year - and will next week. It's my favourite dessert in the world.

Greg makes the BEST lemon meringue pie once a year too.

binkle

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Turkey and fixings at Thanksgiving time. Berry cobblers in the summer. Lemon cookies and a new (to me) lemon curd cake recipe, when my lemons are ready - usually early spring through summer. And matza ball soup at Passover.

Anonymous

I make a sour cream apple pie at Thanksgiving and apricot walnut rugelach around Christmas.

Stagiaire Fash

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I love anise and may look up Sara L’s cookies, unless I make the ones I enjoyed in Switzerland.

This weekend we are at my parents making Christmas cookies.

I love cranberries. I wish they were available all year, but then again, I like cycles and seasons, so waiting for cranberries is part of that.

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Rambling Ann

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You guys are making me hungry

Beef and barley soup. There's one I could make all winter...but don't.

elpgal

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Tarte Soleil:
https://smittenkitchen.com/201.....te-Soleil/

I love puff pastry! And hello and tart things: the citrus terrine sounds right up my alley.

Gail

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I make a Christmas Cake and Mince pies. I live in the USA so hard to buy this traditional fare. My family doesn't really like either but I have friends that enjoy with me.

Neelie

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Potato Latkes! Delish, but so oily and the house smells for days from the frying.

Sal

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Christmas Cake, Christmas Mince Pies!!

There are few other things I probably only make once a year but not deliberately ( Lemon meringue pie being one - I love it but just don't get around to making it often).

Stagiaire Fash

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Sal, that’s how latkes are for me. We have no cultural/religious connection to them. I just like them. That is, I like eating them. I do not enjoy cleaning up after making them. After I make them, it takes about a year for those memories to fade and for me to decide I want some more.

Anonymous

I use the Italian Cream Cake recipe from Cooking Light...actually not too unhealthy as desserts go but is a winner that does not taste healthy.
I thought of another...gingerbread men cookies and bourbon balls once a year.

Greyscale

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I make my mother's shortbread recipe once a year, for my dance group's holiday party.

Rambling Ann, you mentioned that baked beans and steamed bread are one of your once-a-year foods -- is that the same idea as the Boston brown bread that's available commercially in a can? I just had a craving for it a few weeks ago, decades since I'd last thought of it, and posted on facebook - and my parents sent me a can for my birthday! But I'm told there are homemade versions that are better. I know it's steamed whether it's storebought or homemade but I've never tried making it.

Rambling Ann

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Greyscale, yes, the same and yes better if homemade. Really easy too. If you have a store nearby that sells flour and grain in the bulk department, you don't have to commit to a lot of ingredients to try it. I make it in wide mouth 1 pt jars, much easier to come by for me than an actual coffee can. I use the recipe out of Joy of Cooking, but this one looks about the same https://newengland.com/today/f.....own-bread/

More: strawberry shortcake, lemon curd, zucchini parmesan (all that frying mess).

The Cat

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Rosehip & apricot jam.