What is that certain dish that you eat only once a year?

A rib beef roast. When available usually on the holidays.

My grandma’s Passover candies if I make them.

There’s only one: New Year’s Cones. Just once a year for obvious reasons.

They are made with a very old waffle-iron my grandma owns. You get a paper-thin “pancake” flavoured with aniseed, then quickly roll it into a cone while burning your fingers. We eat them filled with cherries, custard, and ice cream.

A Black Forest Sunday at Brahms. I can’t eat it all.

Carnival food. I treat myself once a year to all that glorious fried food.

@longgone That sounds like the “homemade” waffle cones we have in America for ice cream or frozen custard. Many ice cream stores sell them, some make them fresh. Not usually with anise flavor, but there are recipes with it. You can buy the appliance and the tool to make the shape of the cone in kitchen and gourmet stores here. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.williams-sonoma.com/m/recipe/waffle-cones.amp.html

Oh yes @Jonsblond! Pulled pork sandwiches. Corn on a stick! FUNNEL CAKES!!! Turkey legs.

Potato latkes (potato pancakes) made by me at Chanukah and eaten hot from the pan with applesauce.

Mince pie, only on Christmas.

Crawfish. I usually only get them the way I like, at our annual Cajun Festival. I haven’t found a place, that makes them just right, in Charleston. Only a specific vendor, who is always at Cajun Fest, makes them how I like them. I take advantage, and eat a couple hundred. I usually spend about $80, on them. In fact, I usually spend almost $200 at each festival. I won’t eat, for two days, before the festival.

My mother usually cooks a duck, to perfection, on Thanksgiving day. That’s typically the only time I eat that too…

It used to be the same, with gator tail. But. A friend of mine, got a good source of the meat, and we would eat it a few times a year.
It’s one of the more difficult things, to cook just right. He soaks the meat, in orange juice, for a day or so. Then blackens, or fries it. Without the soaking, it’s gamey, and rubbery. He’s got it down, to a science…

I love eating alligator. You are what you eat. I’m happy to have as much gator protein in my body, as I can get.
Parts of my body, are made of gator. I like that. I feel (perhaps baseless,) that it keeps me tough…

I tried alligator once. Yeah. Rubber describes it.

^Yeah. It has to be properly prepared.

I had gator not long after it was listed as a protected species. My uncle was involved in a study of their mating habits in attempt to prevent extinction. Occasionally they had to put one down. Personnel were limited to the amount of meat they could take. He brought it to Grandma’s house to let us all have a taste. We only got one strip each, about one inch by one inch by three inches. It was tender, and exceptionally lean. I liked it a lot.

He was the coolest uncle in the world. He was drafted to the war in Korea. He came back with a cool shiny robe for me with a dragon on the back, a bullet crease on his forehead, and the ability to kick the ceiling.

I nibble on frogs legs once every 4 years.
Yes that’s right…a leap year!

I could clean a platter of those by myself.

I kind of liken frog legs, to quail. Not in taste, or texture. But, I have to eat SO many of them, to get full. And I don’t feel like I eat enough of the animal, to justify killing them.

I prefer to eat animals, which I can consume almost all of them.
Admittedly, I mainly eat a gator’s tail. But. I have had parts of the legs, and such. And people use their skin.

I devour pretty much all of a crawfish. The tail. The inards, and the claw meat. Most people don’t eat the claw meat, so, I collect everyone’s left over claws. It takes a lot of work, but it’s worth it.

It’s a family tradition to eat fried country ham, collard greens, and blackeyed peas for New Years, so every New years, that’ what we eat. I seldom cook country ham any other time during the year because it’s been deemed unhealthy. I do cook the with other meats with the greens and the peas several times during the rest of the year

Birthday cake

Cranberry sauce that looks like the can, the wonderful stuff that slides-out onto a serving plate and wiggles around in pectin glory. I never think of it except during November.

Sure, the grown-up, whole-berry versions are delicious, but they don’t have the same magic.

Agreed. I only eat cranberry sauce, on Thanksgiving day.

A ham sandwich
Well, maybe more than once a year.
Sometimes if I’ve been drinking.

Turkey and escargot. I have to really be in the mood for either one.

Made me ask this question after realizing while sitting eating spaghetti with meatballs that I only do it once a year. I have a tendency to overeat high-carb dishes so I do my best to avoid them.

@mazingerz88 -Spell out words to encourage self control (or guilt) with the noodles. XD

^^What I actually do while eating spaghetti meatballs is much more silly. I imitate how Italian mob movie characters do it. Imagine my friend’s (who was with me in that restaurant) irritation listening to me talking to him in that accent.

@mazingerz88 -Have you been to dinner with him since? XD
If not, make him an offer he can’t refuse.

Chocolate covered cherries. Someone buys them for me every Christmas.

Basically everything I eat on Thanksgiving except for mashed potatoes. I guess I have turkey sandwiches sometimes, but as far as cooking a turkey goes, that happens only on Thanksgiving, same goes for stuffing and pumpkin pie (for the most part).

Yeah. Pies on TG. I avoid them the rest of the year. If a resturaunt we are at has pies on display, after dinner I’ll go look at them and call it good!