I don't know about you, but I am a cookbook addict! I love to read them and get inspired. I was recently contacted by the folks at the Tupelo Honey Cafe. They wanted to offer the Plain Chicken readers a chance to win a copy of their beautiful cookbook and let you know about their holiday recipe contest.
The Tupelo Honey Cafe dishes up Southern comfort food. They are early pioneers in the farm-to-fork movement. They have two locations in Asheville, NC. They recently opened a new location in Knoxville, TN and have another restaurant slated for Johnson City, TN in 2013.
The cookbook is filled full of beautiful photos and incredibly delicious recipes.
Here are a few that caught my eye.
Blackened Catfish with Sunshot Salsa
Southern Fried Chicken BLT
Tomato Pie
Tupelo Honey Ginormous Biscuits
I plan on making these for breakfast tomorrow morning!
Tupelo Honey Ginormous Biscuits
6 biscuits
2 cups bread flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 Tbsp sour cream
1 1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, frozen
1/2 - 3/4 cup buttermilk
1 Tbsp butter, melted
Preheat oven to 450.
Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sour cream, and salt in a large bowl. WIth a cheese grater, grate the frozen butter using the largest holes; quickly cut the butter into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter or fork until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Add the buttermilk to the flour mixture, a little at a time. Stir just enough so it clumps together and is no longer crumbly. Do not overmix.
On a floured surface, turn out the dough and roll out to a 1-inch thickness. Using a 3-inch biscuit cutter, cut the biscuits and place on a sheet pan. Cook on top rack of the oven for 20 minutes, or until light brown, and remove from the oven. Brush the melted butter on top of each biscuit and return to the oven for about 5 minutes longer, or until the biscuits are golden brown.
Want to win your own copy of this cookbook?
Leave a comment on this post and tell me what is your favorite Southern recipe is.
The giveaway runs until 11:59pm Wednesday, November 14th, 2012.
The giveaway is only open to USA residents. Be sure a valid email address is included with your comment. Winner will be chosen randomly and announced on this post. We will email the winner and if the winner doesn’t respond in 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen. Good luck!
This holiday season the Tupelo Honey Cafe is accepting creative
and flavorful holiday-inspired recipes in three categories:
Sides
Desserts
Leftovers
The contest runs until November 16th, and all entries
will be judged by Chef Brian Sonoskus
and his hungry team of taste-testers!
The three winners will be announced on December 3rd.


Disclosure: I was given a copy of the Tupelo Honey Cafe cookbook at no cost. All opinions are my own.
Ooh, I have never made anything southern. It looks yummy though. lifeisastage05@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI think one of my favorite southern recipes would have to be shrimp and grits.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm with you about cookbook collecting. I love looking through them even if I never cook a thing from them. Although, making something delicious from a new and/or favorite cookbook is the best!
Chess pie - "just pie" - that classic and, oh so simple southern dessert. I love that it can pretty much be made from ingredients I always have (butter, sugar mostly) and that it can be "gussied up" with cocoa or pecans or lemon juice or even coconut.
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Fried green tomatoes or cheesy bacon grits - YUM!
ReplyDeletethe recipes sound yummy!
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ReplyDeleteCrawfish etouffee .. I had it once and knew I needed to learn how to make myself..difficult to find Crawfish in the Pacific Northwest but I have gotten them shipped frozen from the South.. Yummmm
ReplyDeleteSouthern food is awesome! So much of it is so, so good! Red Velvet Cake, Fried Chicken, Fried Green Tomatoes, Tomato Pie, Shrimp & Grits, etc. I think my most favorite, though, has to be Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Gravy. YUM!! (amg.032609@gmail.com)
ReplyDeleteI love chicken fried steak. Don't fix it to often due to the "fried" part! (shanna_large@yahoo.com)
ReplyDeleteWe just ate at the Tupelo Honey in downtown Asheville last week - the biscuits are a-ma-zing. I'm planning to make a batch tomorrow, too - I have the cookbook out of the library, but would love to win my own copy.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite southern recipe is my father-in-law's cornbread dressing. (His butter bean recipe is pretty awesome, too.)
vtloririce@gmail.com
Fried chicken, sliced tomatoes, fresh corn, just-made biscuits = heaven!
ReplyDeleteSouthern-style fried chicken.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Southern recipe that I have is for biscuits and gravy. We don't have it often but when we do it's a happy home!
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Coconut Cream Pie!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in the South & moved to Michigan a year ago. I miss Southern cooking! My favorites are Jambalaya, fried Green Tomatoes, and grits with anything! Oh, and I've been seriously craving some Boiled Peanuts!
ReplyDeleteI love a good Southern buttermilk biscuit, slathered in butter and homemade jam:)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is gooey, cheesy macaroni & cheese.
ReplyDeleteFried Chicken, yum
ReplyDeleteJalapeño cornbread! Sdbenson@msn.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite would have to be fried chicken.
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My favorite Southern dish is Hashbrown Casserole. It is my "go to" comfort food!
ReplyDeleteGotta love those buttermilk biscuits with honey butter! Or maybe a good cinnamon roll -- with lots of raisins, which I've been told is a must in the South! :D
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ReplyDeleteI love chicken so fried chicken would have to be a favorite...oh and pinto beans!! Love those too!
ReplyDeleteI love grits, grits that have been cooked slowly over the stove for a long time. Yum. This looks like such an awesome book. Just looking at the Southern Fried Chicken BLT makes my mouth water!! Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI love biscuits and gravy.
ReplyDeleteSo many to choose from I'm not sure I can pick just one! Beef & noodles, chicken & dumplings, biscuits & sausage gravy, fried chicken, sweet cornbread, red beans & rice...last 2 are for dinner tonight! aschmakel@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteChicken and Dumplings!!
ReplyDeleteLove southern cuisine. I think my favorite recipe would have to be biscuits with sausage gravy. Oh do I miss living in the south! Thank you for offering this giveaway. Love your blog!
ReplyDeleteNothing beats good southern fried chicken, collard greens, potato salad, hot biscuits, and top it off with REAL banana pudding!! MMMMMMM! :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is tomato pie. I love all the fresh tomatoes during the summer!
ReplyDeleteI don't think there is any southern for I don't but for favorite as a new Orleans girl, I have to go with red beans and rice!:-)
ReplyDeleteI don't think there is any southern for I don't but for favorite as a new Orleans girl, I have to go with red beans and rice!:-)
ReplyDeleteFavorite southern recipe is pimento cheese BLT - yum
ReplyDeleteChicken and dumplings is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteMy favorites are creamy macaroni and cheese with collard greens.
ReplyDeletetastefullyjill@gmail.com
Cornbread and milk
ReplyDeleteCornbread and hominy! I used to beg my Mawmaw to make it for me. Now I make my own using her cornbread skillet.
ReplyDeletemmm, looks good!!! My favorite is probably chicken and dumplings -- of course, mine are never as good as my grandmother's were!
ReplyDeletePimiento and cheese. Love it. Chocolate gravy is second!
ReplyDeleteWe just ate there last week in Asheville, soon good. My favorite Southern dish is dried green tomatoes, yum!
ReplyDeleteSouthern always makes me think of cornbread.
ReplyDeleteBeing from Texas, all my favorites are southern!
ReplyDeleteFavorite is a nice gooey mac and cheese! Also buttermilk fried chicken and waffles, and warm honey biscuits...mmmm.
ReplyDeleteI have too many favorites but if I have to choose, I would say biscuits and gravy or mac and cheese ("macaroni pie", as it's known in our family!) And any dessert containing coconut :-). This cookbook looks amazing and I would love to add it to my collection - thanks for the opportunity to win!
ReplyDeleteMmmm...since I've lived in the south my whole life I have a zillion favorite recipes but I do have to say my favorite is Mac and Cheese or Fried potatoes...makes me miss Sunday lunches at my Grandmothers! :)
ReplyDeleteI don't think there's anything better than a bowl of butter beans and cornbread dripping with melted butter. Food that soothes the soul! Yum!
ReplyDeleteMmmmm Biscuits and Gravy!!! Asgibbo@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteHomemade Mac and cheese or biscuits and gravy!
ReplyDeleteI love Tupelo Honey Cafe!! I eat there every time I'm in Asheville, which unfortunately isn't as often as I would like. I'm in Knoxville and JC all the time, though, so I'll get my THC fix regularly!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Southern recipe is red velvet cake!
I have to say my favorite Southern dish is fried green tomatoes. There is a restaurant in my town that serves a fried green tomato BLT that is absolutely to-die for!
ReplyDelete(mrswalker79(at)yahoo(dot)com
Fried Green Tomatoes during the summer. At New Year's we always had to have Black Eyed Peas and Greens to bring in the New Year.
ReplyDeleteI love macaroni cheese or pecan pie. rebalittle(at)gmail.com
ReplyDeleteToo many good things to pick from! But one of the first things that comes to mind is Pecan Pie, yum!
ReplyDeleteI had lunch at The Tupelo last summer! What a great place. My favorite? After a life of Southern food? It would have to be the Shrimp and Grits that my youngest son and I make every year at Sunset Beach, NC. Seriously good!
ReplyDeleteI love ALL Southern food... but I think shrimp and grits are probably at the top (or at least near the top!). seeaimeecook at yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteLet's see...fried chicken or fried green tomatoes would have to be my favorite southern foods.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Southern Dish is King Ranch chicken and/or fried green tomatoes. Oh dear, there's red beans and rice too...gosh, hard to pick, love all southern cookin'!
ReplyDeletePimento cheese! Thanks for the fun give-away:@)
ReplyDeleteMy made from scratch chicken and dumplings of which I don't have a written recipe- I have to "show" you the recipe- that's how "from scratch" it is!
ReplyDeleteCat-head biscuits, warm syrup, & fresh sausage!
ReplyDeleteBiscuits! Oh yum, I stink at making them, but I sure love trying :)
ReplyDeleteChicken and dumplings, collard greens, cornbread (no flour or sugar, please!), banana pudding for dessert, and lots and lots of the house wine of the South, sweet tea :)
ReplyDeleteBiscuits are definitely my favorite thing about southern cooking
ReplyDeleteFried Green Tomatoes tnmcalpine@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI live in the South and there are so many recipes that have been handed down that are my family's favorites. For me it's a tie between a truly grand pound cake and my own creation of pimiento cheese. Both dishes are asked for again and again at work pot luck dinners.
ReplyDeleteSouthern Fried Chicken has got to be my favorite and my hubby's.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure what my favorite southern recipe is- so I would love this cookbook so I could figure it out!! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for this giveaway!
suzysocialworker@yahoo.com
Cheese Grits!!! Yummy. We have them at Thanksgiving. Can't wait
ReplyDeleteSweet: Pecan Pie
ReplyDeleteSavory: Corn pudding!
Stefibeth @ aol.com
Pecan pie!!!!
ReplyDeletePecan pie and I love biscuits and sweet tea. At my home sweet tea is also known as "nectar of the Gods"!
ReplyDeleteSeafood Jambalaya and Gumbo!
ReplyDeleteI would love this cookbook in my collection!
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My parents moved to the south about 10 years ago. My mom has made some great dishes she learned from her new southern friends. I loved the way they make sweet potatoes without marshmallows on top but a sweet pecan yumminess. lismarier89@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteAs an Asheville hometown girl, I had this cookbook Bible as part of my collection...unfortunately, it had been passed around so much it was in terrible shape then eventually it didn't make its way back to me. :( Some of my faves are Shrimp & Goat Cheese Grits, Sweet Potato pancakes,pimento cheese, & real sweet tea (the kind you just cant get in Chicago!)
ReplyDeleteRed Velvet cake.
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This would be a wonderful addition to my cookbook collection, thanks for a chance to win one!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite southern recipe is pecan pie and another is pimento cheese.
ReplyDeleteI love true southern fried chicken, fried ocra, and big ole' biscuits. You know, the really healthy stuff. :)
ReplyDeleteChicken fried steak, biscuits and heavy, and fried green tomatoes!
ReplyDeleteChicken n dumplings!
ReplyDeleteFried chicken, pecan pie, green peas and dumplings, i need to stop! I'm getting hungry!
ReplyDeleteSo many to choose from but I would have to say cornbread anything,mostly cornbread bisquits or bread with HONEY MMMM GOOOOOD
ReplyDeleteand what an awesome giveaway. Thanks for sharing. :)
Southern Buttermilk Biscuits are my very favorite recipe...especially when paired with crisp bacon and southern grits!
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ReplyDeleteTomato Pie is my absolute favorite! The recipe in this cookbook looks so yummy!!
ReplyDeleteYour recipes are always so inspiring for this fellow working woman who loves to cook!
I am from the South, so eating "Souther" food is normal for me. My mother and grandmother are/were both AMAZING Southern cooks. My mom was raised in the cotton fields, and all her recipes are from scratch. My favorite recipe is probably biscuits and gravy. My husband made fresh gravy for his guy friends this weekend on their get-away, and none of them had ever had it from scratch. They all thought it came from a packet. How sad!
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I love most Southern recipes, but I think my favorite is Maw Maw's special cornbread and chicken dressing. I would really love to win a copy of this cookbook! lisag983@aol.com
ReplyDeleteI love country ham and biscuits.
ReplyDeleteFried cornbread has to be #1, pimento cheese sandwich on white bread a close second.
ReplyDeleteMerren
maddox1013@aol(dot)com
There is nothing quite like the deliciousness of friend chicken and homemade biscuits!
ReplyDeletecrittyjoyblog (at) gmail (dot) com.
It is so hard to pick just one Southern dish but I guess I will say Shrimp and Grits. It is always so good! Bread pudding....oh, so many things! Thanks for offering the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteGooey butter cake :)
ReplyDeletezierbea99@yahoo.com
Fried Chicken for sure!!
ReplyDeleteWell, this fellow Auburn fan (and I love that latest Instagram pic - can sooo relate!) and Bama gal would have to go with a whole menu - LOL
ReplyDeleteAll of hubby's favs - Fried chicken, butter beans with ham bone, mashed taters, homemade biscuits with chicken gravy and banana pudding from scratch (the pudding kind, not the easy in-a-flash kind - which I love - with the sweetened condensed milk and instant pudding mixes) - LOL
This cookbook looks soo yummy! Thanks for great blog reading, too!
fried chicken, or chicken and dumplings! yum!
ReplyDeleteI love chicken and dumplings!
ReplyDeleteCornbread! My husband just ate at Tupelo Honey in Knoxville. He really wants me to win this cookbook!
ReplyDeleteFried pork chops, fried okra, fried corn, hush puppies. My momma grew up in Georgia, so southern food is my favorite!
ReplyDeletekaylyn.petersen@gmail.com
I love cookbooks!!! I found a great recipe for Southern Crusty Coconut Pie. I make it for church dinners & it's gone in 10 minutes!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the chance!!
Southern Sweet Potato Pie!
ReplyDeleteFried Okra, you just don't get more southern than that.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE making Chicken and dumplings. I have a crockpot recipe that I use :)
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Fried chicken, with mashed potatoes, cream gravy and corn on the cob.
ReplyDeleteWhoops, my email address is kcsellshouses@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI love Tupelo Honey Cafe! I live in SC and just ate there in Asheville in July for my birthday dinner!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite southern recipes include shrimp and grits and Fried Green Tomato BLT's (bonus points if it has pimiento cheese, too)!
Favorite southern recipe? Hands down pimento cheese!
ReplyDeletealiwi9@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteOh, tough one between pimento cheese and pecan pie!
ReplyDeleteLove the Tupelo Honey Cafe! I am still learning to cook southern, but I have mastered biscuits, chicken & dumplings, and sweet tea!
ReplyDeleteGreat opportunity! My favorite southern recipe is hashbrown casserole!
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My fave Southern food is my Momma's cornbread dressing! And homemade Pimento Cheese! Oh there are so many! We ate at Tupelo Honey in downtown Asheville Saturday and I have to say, that was the absolute BEST biscuit I have ever had. My husband agreed. We will definitely stand in line to get another one next time we are in Asheville.
ReplyDeleteI can't resist a good southern biscuits and gravy plate! Just makes my mouth water all day long! :)
ReplyDeleteI've been in Birmingham about a year now and as a transplant southerner I'd have to say my favorite southern dish is fried chicken! That cookbook is beautiful and I'd love to increase my southern cooking options :)
ReplyDeletemmmmmmmm...Buttermilk Pie! Khristenas@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite southern recipes has to be whipping cream poundcake...YUM!
ReplyDeletearchermj@bellsouth.net
Chicken fried steak with sawmill gravy... couple that with some mashed baby reds and a heaping spoonful of butter corn - MmmmmMMmmmmm!!
ReplyDeleteI WISH I knew how to cook southern. I love everything southern, it's all comfort food and delicious to me! I would love to learn to make yummy biscuits.
ReplyDeleteI actually ate lunch at Tupelo honey recently--the biscuits were absolutely divine.
ReplyDeleteI think summery foods are my favorite Southern items--chicken salad, pimento cheese, sweet tea. Yum, yum.
I love fried green tomatoes and fried chicken
ReplyDeleteJambalaya!
ReplyDeleteBiscuits and gravy or tomato pie! karebeary@prodigy.net
ReplyDeletefried green tomatoes
ReplyDeletegkuroda(at)gmail(d0t)com
My Grandmaw Georgia's corn casserole. It still remains one of my favorite dishes.
ReplyDeleteCheese Potatoes like my Mamaw made!! lisashelburne@aol.com
ReplyDeleteSweet potato pie.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is the Pecan Pie Squares from the Texas restaurant. I love those things! That book looks VERY interesting!
ReplyDeleteOooh! I have so many southern favorites but I really LOVE a good pecan pie!
ReplyDeleteI love, love, love biscuits! Growing up, our neighbor's mom (that is, the mother of the wife) used to make them with lard. Bad for you, I know, but so good. And she never measured. A true Southern cook!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite southern main course recipe is shrimp and grits (no bacon, though!). For dessert I absolutely LOVE a good buttermilk pie!
ReplyDeletelove collard greens with bacon!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite southern food would have to be gumbo.
ReplyDeletea garden fresh tomato, with some fried okra and fresh corn on the cob, wash down with some sweet tea and maybe a bowl of blackberry cobbler
ReplyDeleteFried Chicken and Biscuits !! YUM !
ReplyDeleteMy favorite southern recipe is Cornbread Dressing!
ReplyDeleteI love Luby's Mac-n-cheese recipe it is the best mac-n-cheese ever!!!
ReplyDeleteHands down and no doubt....Biscuits and Tomato Gravy.
ReplyDeleteIt don't get any Southerner than that!
Fried pork chops with smother fried potatoes and hot buttered biscuits!
ReplyDeleteShrimp and grits has to be my favorite southern dish. I try it everywhere we go! I love all the different versions. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteamberwilder at hotmail dot com
My good friend Ken gave me his recipe for tomato gravy and biscuits and it is delicious and very southern.
ReplyDeleteDonnie W.
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Mint Julep. ;-P
ReplyDeleteBiscuits and sausage gravy or chicken fried steak. Yum!
ReplyDeleteshakenafist at yahoo dot com
My favorite southern recipe is shrimp and grits. Nothing better!
ReplyDeletecheesy grits and sweet potato pie!
ReplyDeleteBarbara
babsaroo@gmail.com
Shrimp and Grits for a meal, but for dessert... hands down my grandmama's pecan pie or coconut cake
ReplyDeleteShrimp and grits and fried chicken.. This northerner didn't know what she was missing until she moved South... YUMMM!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love your blog! My hubs is a die hard Crimson Tide fan, so every time I make one of your recipes, I have to point out to him that it came from an Auburn grads blog, lol. Anyway, my favorite southern recipe would have to be red velvet cake. I had never heard of it until my husband asked me to make one from his Grandmothers recipe about 15 years ago. Now it seems red velvet has popped up everywhere!
ReplyDeleteRed beans and rice
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite southern recipe is taco soup!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely biscuits. I'm a sucker for bread :)
ReplyDeleteI love pimento cheese!!!
ReplyDeletePat Conroy's Shrimp and Grits recipe....yummm!
ReplyDeleteI love reading cookbooks!