It can be tough to recall a year's worth of meals. If you stick to three a day, which food writers rarely do, there are 1,095 to sort through — or 1,098 in a leap year like this one. Scrolling through photos on my phone — my preferred method of memory jogging — reveals hints of this year's highlights: my garden's first asparagus crop, a semi-absurd number of diner meals and a sunny Super Lemonova shared with Adeline Druart, the new CEO of Lawson's Finest Liquids. My fellow food writer Melissa Pasanen's camera roll was full of Québécois food and drink from several trips north for work and pleasure. She also found a surprising number of pics of doughnuts, sweet and savory, including a screenshot of the summer special Lobster Doughie at Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre, which she sadly never tasted herself — though one of our stellar interns did. There's always next year. For both of us, 2024 brought farmers market mornings, food truck afternoons and so many restaurant openings that we could barely keep up. As we assembled our favorite bites and sips of the year, we found that most came from new places to eat and drink. We're happy for the injection of fresh energy, and we feel its positive repercussions in the local food scene. In Seven Days style, here are this year's seven favorites from each of us, in no particular order. As you'll see, it was a good year for biscuits. But also for pawpaws, fancy carrot mochi and vermouth-based cocktails. — J.B. Happy as a Clam Frankie's, 169 Cherry St., Burlington, 264-7094, frankiesvt.com If you've been paying attention to Vermont's food scene this year, you won't be surprised that Melissa and I both had Frankie's on our favorites list. Why? Melissa summed it up simply: "So many of their dishes." I share the sentiment, citing the pork croquettes with a pickled rhubarb sauce that I'd like to drink, electric-green scallop crudo with cucumbers and fermented fennel, sweet corn tortelli, hearty sides of pommes purée and creamed corn, epically savory cabbage, and housemade creemees. [content-3] What I ordered most often at Frankie's, in some form or another, were the littleneck clams. The swanky-cool restaurant's proclivity for seafood is a welcome addition to the scene, and the clams are probably as close as its menu gets to a staple. At…